Culinary experimentation.

Diving, you find yourself in the kitchen with a box of random produce. I once found a bunch of Jerusalem Artichokes. I looked them up to find out that they were neither from Jerusalem nor were they in the artichoke family. They are tubers like potatoes or yucca root. They come from the roots of sunflower plants. I cooked them up and they were delicious. I've never seen them before or since in a store. ~shrug~

Tonight, looking at a box of sweet Vidalia onions, I had a hankering for onion rings. I, sprayed the slices with Pam then dredged in flour with seasoned salt. I baked at 400 approx 10 minutes. I cut another up Blooming Onion style. I gave it the same treatment and baked it for a little longer.

Tasted good, not as crisp as I would have liked, and a little bit of an flour-y taste. The beauty of this is I didn't spend $2.50 a lb to find out if the recipe would work. I think next time I'm going to try a batter made with corn muffin mix like the case of Jiffy brand muffin mix I found . Manna aside, it isn't like shopping you don't plan menus and take a list, you get the stuff and then adapt your meals to include what inspires you from what is on hand.