Grocery trip and chicken moussaka
For $33 here’s what I got.
Celery, 3 big carrots, 1 bringal / eggplant, a bunch of round spinach (didn’t have baby spinach), 1 lettuce, 4 peckham pears, 3 dragon fruits (on sale 3 for only $0.90 because they are ripe!), 5 bananas, castor and icing sugar, 1o instant noodles (for lazy days), 2 cans of corn, 1 can of button mushroom, 1 coke zero, 250g of mozzarella cheese, 1 can low fat sweetened condensed milk and 10 eggs.
And later when my husband came back, he brought back mangoes and more bananas! Yes we have too many bananas at home now! Good thing they can be frozen and used in smoothies. Last week’s fruits have all been consumed by the way.
I also dropped by Daiso $2 dollar shop (I love going to Daiso! There are so many little japan-made-products and each at $2) and I bought 4 little pastel ramekins that are oven proof. I can make some chocolate mousse now :)
For dinner I cooked a lasagna-style chicken moussaka. Moussaka is a greek dish that includes sliced eggplant baked in a ground beef sauce and then smothered in a thin white sauce. The eggplant replaces the lasagna sheets. In my version I used chicken instead of beef. I didn’t draw out the moisture from the eggplant first, making mine a little runny. It was still delicious though. I will make a vegetarian version next time i.e use mushroom in place of the chicken.
Dessert was one ripe dragon fruit and mangoes. I still have two of yesterday’s pear-chocolate light brownie in the fridge but I will save them for another day.
I may be going for overnight cycling tomorrow with a few mauritian friends. I am so looking forward to that!
PS: Watching American Idol 8 now :) Adam Lambert is my favourite!
April 30th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Carine, do you know where I can get green mangoes?(to make mango salad)
I don’t like eating ripe mangoes.
I love going to Daiso too. =) I usually go to the one at Vivo.
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April 30th, 2009 at 10:39 am
For me I like both ripe and green. Sometimes I prefer green more!
I saw very green mangoes at wet markets but not sure if all wet markets have them. Hey last time I bought green mangoes at Giant! They were really a good bargain because they were green :) But they are the types that would ripe within 2-4 days. I bought a couple to make mango salad! I wanted to make some mauritian mango pickles but I didn’t want to wait haha.
There is a Daiso at Vivo? There’s one near my place now hehe
May 1st, 2009 at 3:07 am
We also have Daiso in Mu ;) Everything is at Rs50. Hehehe. You can actually find very interesting stuff at Daiso.
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May 1st, 2009 at 10:17 am
A bon! It’s great. I didn’t know ena Daiso a Maurice :) Since when? And where?
May 1st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I think it’s been more than 2 years now that Daiso is in Mu. We have only one Daiso shop and it’s in Curepipe. On the main street a few blocks from College Royal.
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May 1st, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I see! One is better than nothing :)
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I once went to Daiso Mauritius and I was shocked at the variety of stuff and the price. I bought some kitchen stuff there and some pastry tins. :P
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:02 am
[...] also made some small chicken pot pies in the cute ramekins that I bought last week :) The topping was a mixture of shortcrust and puff pastry – the leftovers that [...]
May 7th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
[...] dinner for us was a lasagna-style eggplant with prawns (without the white bechamel sauce unlike the previous time – the white thing on top is the melted mozzarella cheese). Oh my … it was delicious [...]
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:25 pm
We actually have two Daiso shops in MU now.. :) :) :)..
one in PL and one in CPE..
Thts great..
March 19th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
[...] Placing into my small ramekins [...]