Habits 2: Serendipity cooking.

 I love serendipity cooking!  Some call it bottom-of-the-fridge, some iffits (if it's there bung it in) but I like serendipity!

I suppose that there are many fridges in which things lurk.  There's a slightly wilting pepper, the last four mushrooms, a couple of sticks of celery or whatever.  Well, apart from the moral aspect of food waste,  "whatever" cost money and I chose to buy it so it's going to get used.  

A check on my fridge revealed that I had carrots, onions, celery, and peppers which wouldn't last much longer.  There was a box of chestnut mushrooms, an aubergine and some roast peppers trying to look as if they weren't there.  There were fours eggs in a box and some garlic eager to be used.

I hadn't any bread or breadcrumbs in either the fridge or the freezer but I had a box of sage and onion stuffing mix in the food cupboard and there were lots of nuts left from Christmas.

So I chopped the celery and onion and sweated them in a little oil with the garlic.  I used the food processor and whizzed the mushroom, aubergine, nuts, peppers, carrots and stuffing mix and then added that to the softened celery and onions.  I added stock and the eggs, mixed the whole lot and put it into a couple of lined loaf tins.  Don't ask for quantities: this is serendipity cooking!

Then an hour at 180C, Gas mark 4, 360F.  Basically it's a nut and mushroom roast.  Even more basically, it tastes jolly good, even if I do say so myself wot shouldn't!