Food Show

tamarillow and I went to the Food Show today. We got there around 10.00am, about when it started, and left at 1.20pm, having circled the entire stadium once, and gone back to get some very cheap fair trade chocolate.

Between the two of us, we walked away with a very full bag containing:

• three kinds of hummus for $10;
  
• five kinds of deli meats for $10;
  
• three kinds of yoghert for $10;
  
• three kinds of loose-leaf tea for $20;
  
• three kinds of cheese (one of which I was given for going back for a bottle of wine);
  
• a pottle of philadelphia light cream which was free;
  
• caramelised balsamic vinegar drizzle;
  
• a small packet of speckalas (which I should really learn how to make);
  
• a small bottle of Indulgence, a 2009 autumn wine;
  
• five blocks of scarborough fair fair trade chocolate; and
  
• 2x good beeswax and sponge for shoes/wood polishing

Then we came home, with aching legs from standing (but not feet because we wore sensible shoes), cleaned up the kitchen, and I had a cup of tea and watched an episode of White Collar, and then I had enough energy when I made my second cup to put together a tomato soup base, and then the rest of the soup, so we have tomato with white bean and chorizo soup for dinner (with cumin and garlic and smoked paprika for the other flavours), and my preliminary taste tests suggests that it will be awesome and not too plain tomato-flavoured.

Later: dinner eaten, and it was awesome, with a dash of philadelphia cream cheese to cut the tiny amount of chilli a little.