Do we have…?

When it comes to cooking I’m more a technician than a planner. I think of myself as a ‘Man of Action’ rather than a ‘Man of Ideas’ although I have enough of the latter to make myself appear in equal parts annoying and dangerous.

Regardless, I do a lot of the cooking – and my lovely bride does most of the planning. It’s a process that works out rather well, actually.

Things do fall through the cracks, from time to time, though. Generally we read through the recipe ingredients and make sure we have it all, but recently we missed the listing of chia seeds as part of a salad we had planned to do.

Of course I was 90% of the way through the salad before I noticed the listing of chia seeds. After humming the jingle from the Chia Pet ads, I figured before I give up looking I had best at least take a look. I did build the (too small, filled up too quickly) spice cabinet, after all.

So I looked under ‘c’ and sure enough, there they were.

Of course.