December 14: National Bouillabaisse Day
I don’t know much about bouillabaisse except that it’s a fish stew. And I don’t know if this has come across, but I don’t do fish. Especially fish in an instance where I’d be buying literally $50+ worth of ingredients to make a dish I guarantee would make me want to barf.
Work around? Vegan bouillabaisse! I found a delicious recipe (except I left the fennel out… I bought it and was all set to use it until I cut it open and the room was filled with the aroma of black licorice. Again, I wasn’t about to waste all the other ingredients if the fennel was just going to make it taste like old lady candy.), and promptly made it un-vegan by using chicken stock. Whoopsie. Anyway, it ended up being a fragrant (hello, rosemary!), thick vegetable stew. And it was good!
Was it the most authentic bouillabaisse? Most definitely not, but that’s okay.
Tomorrow: National Cupcake Day
Are you keeping track of how much money you’ve spent to do this? I’d be curious as to the final tally at the end.
HA! I don’t think I want to know.
Really though, most things haven’t been too expensive (not counting gumbo). A few bucks a day, maybe, on average. If I’m lucky, I have the ingredients or the food holiday food replaces “regular” food I would have bought.