Boy did a get a shocker yesterday ... live and learn, I suppose...
Carole asked me a few days ago "You know that curried shrimp and snow pea salad you made once? I loved it - would you make it again sometime soon?"
"Sure," I said... "although it was a tiger prawn, sugar pea, and cauliflower with a light curry and garam masalla mayo dressing."
"Whatever..." she said, "so you're going to make that again soon? It was awesome."
"No prob," I said - "but it'll be expensive... probably ten bucks just for the prawns."
So anyway, I ran down to the grocery store yesterday after work and picked up the prawns ($9.88 +tax) and the sugar peas ($1.48 - great deal!) - but it wasn't until I got home that I remembered that the cauliflower head had slipped my mind, so I wizzed back down to the grocery store with a toonie in my pocket - expecting to get about a dollar six in change (I'm sure the last cauliflower hear I bought was .94c)...
So when the clerk says "That'll be $5.34 please" I choked out "What? Seriously? You're kidding right? This tiny head of cauliflower is worth as much as half a pound of tiger prawns?". "Yes" she says... "it's not in season right now. Sometimes it's really cheap and sometimes it's really expensive."
Geez - since when did brocolli and cauliflower become luxury food items???
So anyway, we had a nice $18 salad for dinner last night ... I couldn't afford a main course.
To add insult to injury, during our salad dinner Carole says "You know, I just love this - this is one of the most gournet tasting and looking salads I've ever had. I would totally pay nine or ten bucks for this salad in a high class restaurant."
I just laughed.... "Dear, you DID just pay $9 for that salad - and that's just the cost of the ingedients!"
So anyway, like y'all care about my salad. My point is that I guess most people have learned by now that there are certain foods you just don't by out of season... well, now I know that too. Carole, research project for ya: When is cauliflower in season? Cause that's the next time you get yer gourmet shrimp 'n' pea salad. ;-)