Jalfrezi

This is a hurried shot of some of the ingredients for tonight's dinner - Chicken Jalfrezi, Sambhar and Pilau Rice.

I think I may have discovered two new "things:"

1. Ingredient blindness - when checking through the recipes and our copious supplies of powders, seeds, dried leaves, pastes etc, I usually fail to notice one thing is missing.  The Sambhar requires something called "Sambhar Powder." Who knew? Also, I once cooked some soda bread without remembering to add - er - soda.

2. Contracting storage receptacles - in our kitchen most of the time required to prepare a meal is spent tracking down ingredients, equipment, tools and devices. This usually involves emptying an entire cupboard, shelf, refrigerator, drawer or other container, to find the essential thingummy. Thereafter, it is wholly impossible to put all the non-required items back, as the cupboard or whatever has shrunk to half its previous size.

Am I the only one suffering from these problems? If not, perhaps we should set-up a support group, with a Facebook page and everything.