Equal and opposite? Not so sure.
Today sees a serious sandwich combination, namely ham and mustard. I recently provided a buffet supper for some friends, and included this classic combination a long with some others, all unashamedly stolen from the Hotel Felix afternoon tea menu:
(admittedly their combinations were a little more upmarket, stating the source and variety of each item)
Ham and sun-dried tomato omelette, salad with thousand-island dressing.
Maybe I ought to do more of this.
I’d just like to point out that Madeira Cake is very high on the list of greatest cakes known to humanity. It manages to be luxuriously moist, proving far better than many inferior sponge cakes which generally prove to be dry and crumbly.
It’s not quite up there with Mille-feuille, of course, which combines several of life’s finer pleasures - Puff pastry, icing, strawberry jam and cream.
Today I’m eating a Sainsbury’s Basics range Macaroni Cheese meal cooked in the microwave. It tastes of virtually nothing. Although it was stupidly cheap so I suppose that makes up for it.
Coincidentally I came upon this chap who has spent the month of November living on a food budget of only $30. That’s about 50p a day for those of us over here.
My Macaroni Cheese Meal cost 86p, for a small volume of food, which tastes awful. The worst part of it was that I was quite pleased when buying it: “Wow, this’ll save some money.”
I’ve restored a little perspective on the situation now, though, and shan’t be spending less than £2 on a ready meal ever again…