One of
the things I find difficult to convey to people is that when you have
memory difficulties, it isn't just “forgetting things” that is
the problem- it's sometimes plain “not thinking of things in the
first place”. This particularly happens when there are a number of
stages to a set task like, for instance, cooking a meal.
My
advice if you're in the same mental boat as me: read the instructions
from beginning to end before you go to the shop. You'll notice that
not every cookbook author thinks through what they're instructing. In
their book The Hairy Dieters, Si King and Dave Myers serve their
gammon with potatoes- a staple part of most healthy meals- but as
they didn't include it in the ingredients list, I didn't write it
down. They mention veg right at the end of the recipe, so I bunged on
some frozen veg, meaning I had to turn the heat right down on the
gammon and simmer it for a ridiculously long time.
The
recipe serves 4, but as I was eating alone I figured I could half
that and eat it over 2 days. That didn't happen. I halved it and
mullered the lot, drowning the gammon in sauce.
The
recipe recommends serving with fresh parsley. Tesco's parsley comes
in a packet that I knew I wouldn't get through, so I bought a pot of
the dried herb and sprinkled that on. Probably not as healthy.
I'd
recommend not being a tight bastard and not buying value gammon from
Tesco. You'll just end up cutting off the stringy fat. You get what
you pay for.
After
all that, though, the meat and the sauce tasted quite nice.
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