So, what's for dinner...You what!?

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I am constantly thinking of what to have for dinner, before breakfast and lunch even. What could I eat from the fridge? Full to the brim with selections of cured meats, mountains of various types of cheeses, infinite packs of pre-cooked meat, all the veg you could think of in one drawer, its neighbour bursting with fruits, shelves stacked with condiments and marinades. And then the freezer: kievs, fish, pizza's, ready meals, potato waffles (ok, smiley faces), leftover and preserved curry's, soups, mince, pitta breads, hot cross buns...I could go on and on and on. How amazing the choices are, but then I have to leave my parents house and reality slaps me round the face when I open the fridge that I stack myself. Cue tumbleweed. The half empty bottle of discount brand ketchup, half a packet of wet, mushy salad leaves, a smidgen of mustard and a pack of ham that went off 3 days ago. What can i possibly make for dinner out of this...Nothing, in short. However, I feel I am well practised in the art of combining random ingredients, shoving them together messily into a concoction of flavours that wouldn't look out of place in Roald Dahl's 'Georges Marvellous Medicine'.

I want to share some of my homemade dinners, proving that a set list of ingredients is not needed in order to create a meal and that it is possible to use whatever is laying about in the back of the cupboard or the fridge. Don't be scared to experiment, after all, it's only you eating it (don't try out new recipes on others, just in case it goes tits up), and if you do screw it up and create a monstrosity of flavours that clash like chalk and cheese then you can just go ahead and buy whatever it was that you going to in the first place, nothing to lose. I will start posting some examples very soon, with photographic evidence, though don't expect a Marks & Sparks styled parody just yet.