Yesterday I did the weekly shopping. But today I had to go back to the supermarket, because I realized that I was still missing a couple of things. Upon returning home with my new purchase, I realized that I had made a serious mistake.

From my basket of fruits and vegetables, a cucumber was watching me, curious. Beautiful, smooth, intensely green. Cucumber? I was amazed. What am I going to do with a cucumber? That was the mistake, one that I normally avoid making: buying without a plan.

Although I usually have a plan for everything I buy (and this menu and shopping list that I create every week helps a lot with that), sometimes I buy without thinking, and that can be a mistake that ends up in the trash, which is the same as throw away the money it cost me.

To avoid these things, my recommendation is to always plan the menu and make the shopping list. That will save you time and money (and trips to the brown bin). It is one of the things I like most about batchcooking.

This week starts, as usual, with the

Baked preparations

Preparations with sofrito

Sauté five or six onions, two peppers, seven or eight cloves of garlic and a stalk of leek (the white part) over medium/low heat in a large frying pan with a generous amount of olive oil (covering the bottom). When the onion is crystalline, divide the sauce into four parts:

Fire preparations

cold preparations