The moment everyone's been waiting for

If you're like me, you've been waiting for a grocery store in the UCC at the University of Western Ontario since first year.  At least that is what the University Student's Council will have you believe.  That being said, yesterday was the first day Grocery Checkout's store in the University Community Center opened its doors- later than scheduled, but what else is new. 

Thus far, people have been confused as to the point of the grocery store on campus, or have yet to check it out.  My take is that I originally thought it was a waste of space before I went there today at lunch, however my mind was changed when I walked in. 

Cheap London Breakfast

I've been MIA and so busy with life that food writing has taken a back seat.  If you've come back since my last post to find nothing, I'm sorry.  Though I doubt there are any fans of this blog.  I digress.

Cora's Bluberry Pancakes

Recently I was told that I should write about great places to eat breakfast in London.  Then I walked into Winks hungover one morning and realized that There definitely needed to be categories in what I am tempted to call The Great Breakfast Debate, scratch that, it needs to be The Great, cheap, Breakfast Debate as we're students who want good food, dirt cheap.

I've decided that the categories that I will use to rate the breakfast joints are as follows: Eat only after hangovers, Eat after you spend $100+ on a bottle the night before, Acceptable to bring your one night stand to, and breakfast with the parents. 

What I have in my cupboard right now... and you do too

It's cold outside, I don't want to do groceries, so as we all do, I went to the cupboard to see what I had.  I'm not one to enjoy soup by itself, I seldomly buy soup to just have a bowl, so I was unimpressed to see that I had 3 kinds of soup, all in cans; cream of mushroom, vegetable and onion. 

This is where I like to get creative.  I went to the freezer, and of course, living in a fraternity house, half my food is gone.  All I have left -> 2 chicken breasts and a massive frozen log of pork tenderloin.  Great. I'm hungry, and i'm hungry now. 

Here's what I came up with.  I also found cheap $0.99 fussili noodles, the small noodle with the tight spiral. 

I took the vegetable soup, put it in a pot, and added twice the amount of water that the condensed soup required to be reconstituted.  This will now essentially be my potching liquid for the chicken, however, if you've ever had chicken cooked in liquid, you'll realize it's not the best texture.  Solution: do a quick defrost on the outside of the chicken and then brown the outside using oil in a frying pan. 

I then put the chicken in the vegetable soup and put water on to boil for the pasta.  Instantly, cheap and easy chicken "cacciatore" a la student.