sometimes when i’m cooking for just myself, i have no patience for recipes, foresight, or elegance. and that’s ok. sometimes i can create some pretty yummy stuff, and tonight was one of those times.

what did it take?

a smidgeon of chorizo (around 2 T)

cheese

garlic

one purple potato

small amount of fresh avocado

tortilla

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i sliced the potato thinly and fried it with garlic and olive oil. in another pan, i fried the chorizo. once the potato was browned and soft on the inside, i turned off the burner and removed the potato. i placed a tortilla in the pan (i keep ‘em in the freezer and it thaws in the hot pan), and put cheese on the tortilla and let it melt a bit, and then put the potato and chorizo and sliced avocado on the tortilla. once everything seemed sufficiently melted and a bit brown, i folded the tortilla into a burrito-type fashion, and mmm mmm. cheap, easy, and delicious.

tonight was a mystery: what to do with chorizo bought from the santa cruz farmer’s market? it’s good stuff–local, humane (odd word to describe an animal, i know it), and organic. when i searched for recipes, most turned up to be a variation on a scrambled egg theme, which i initially dismissed. and then dismissed again when i found a recipe with my larder in mind: kale, potatoes, chorizo = tuscan kale soup with chorizo. i added cream near the end — remember the carbonara with the mistaken addition of milk? the cream did it justice, as did salt and freshly ground pepper. mmmm… i may make david a soup lover yet!