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Gaucho Pie and urban planning

I used to write little food adventures here, but for some reason that fell by the wayside.

Last night I left the YMCA thinking I should pick up some cottage cheese to mix with the Chimichurri that was leftover in my fridge, but I didn't want to go to the giant Loblaw's across the street. It seems really stupid to me to drive across the street to the Loblaw's parking lot, but the store is extremely pedestrian-hostile. Also, the store is just too large. All I wanted was cottage cheese, and maybe some parsley to go in the Cowboy Pie I was going to make for dinner.

So I decided to go a little out of my way to the Foodland store -- much smaller and almost on my drive.

But while I was on my way there (passed my normal turn, waiting at the light to turn onto Foodland's street) I realized I could replace the parsley with the chimichurri, and then it wouldn't be leftover in my fridge anymore, and I wouldn't need the parsley anymore.

I drove past Foodland and just went home.

Cowboy pie is like shepherd pie, except with cow in it. If it's got sheep in it, it's shepherd pie. This one has beef. It's actually based on a Rachael Ray recipe of cowboy spaghetti, but with mashed potato on top and baked for 30 minutes instead of the pasta. And it turned out (I hadn't looked at the recipe before starting this adventure) Cowboy spaghetti doesn't even have parsley in it.

I mixed a half cup of chimichurri into the mashed potato and wow, the house smelled so good!

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