We had another black-out this morning, following the one last night and all the mini ones after that.
This time I packed my backpack, locked the door, skidded down the hill, passed the tree that fell down a week ago and still is waiting to be cleaned up, and to the bus stop to get me to Vallarta.
Where I went to the local supermarket for a few items like dog food and turkey ham
and where they had a sale on cabbage and white onions.
I joined the frenzy of the bosomy, sweaty Mexican housewives and tore the tough, outer leaves off the cabbage--99 centavos a kilo--and elbowed my way to the better of the white onions--1 peso a kilo--and hauled my stash, my treasure to the bus, sat down and calmed down enough to think:
whatever am I to do with this ?
Onions, yes, I use all the time. Very useful item, but cabbage? Cabbage that I mostly use for "brunkaal' a dish involving slabs of pork and cabbage, cooked with sugar and vinegar. I have no pork, so no "brunkaal".
What then, for surely a sale like this must not be ignored. What then?
Ah, I have a recipe for chicken and cabbage. All is not lost. I shall make chicken and cabbage and enjoy the tremendous deal I got on the cabbage.
I wonder what all the sweaty, bosomy housewives were planning to do with their cabbage. A dish as of yet undiscovered by me.
Sheesh.....at 99 centavos a kilo they could afford to throw the cabbage at their cheating husbands or screaming kids. That might stop them.