Oh, I do get excited about small things sometimes...
Recently I was sad to discover that my local Waitrose has dropped its kosher section, which for me was a great source of nostalgia food - things I miss from home, things with the taste of home, like Israeli hummous for example which is nothing like the stuff you get in normal supermarkets here. Not to mention Israeli halva!!!
But God is kind to me and in my shopping expedition today I discovered something else that can give me a bit of a flavour of home in my cooking - flat leaf parsley.
Flat leaf parsley is what in Israel we regard as normal parsley - I didn't even know there was a different kind when I was growing up there. The flavour is so utterly different, and now and again I've bought a bunch as a special treat, but buying it fresh is obviously expensive and also it's a bit of a faff chopping it up and I don't believe in spending too much time and energy on food preparation.
So excuse me whilst I do a few somersaults and dance around shouting halleluiah, because in the supermarket today, amongst the usual selection of Schwarz herbs, I found... yes... I couldn't believe my eyes... flat leaf parsley! Yippee!!!
Okay, I'll go and calm down now...
