I should add that I have a good sense of smell and if it had smelled in any way rancid (the high fat content), I'd have binned it. But just goes to show we throw far too much perfectly good stuff away. This might be slightly off topic, but we have just recently been eating lovely new potatoes grown from a bag of forgotten potatoes I found when I was cleaning out the drawers at the bottom of the fridge. They'd chitted by themselves in the fridge, so I popped them in a bit of ground I'd recently cleared and dug them up when the foliage died down. It was a small bag of large sized new potatoes and, although not a huge amount, I reckon we got double to treble the amount of potatoes than if we'd eaten them fresh. If I find any "slightly soggy" ones in a bag, I don't throw them away now. I chit them and plant them up wherever there's a space, even in a potato bag in the greenhouse. I've also, instead of buying a bunch of skinny spring onions for stir fry every time, using a couple and throwing the rest in the compost
, bought some giant spring onions from Morrisons. I've currently got them in water in a jam jar on the kitchen window sill. I change the water daily and they are growing roots and fresh "leaves". When the roots have grown a bit more, I'm planning on planting them in a pot or bit of cultivated ground and I think - this is an experiment - they will come up every year like chives. We'll see. Right now I can trim a few bits off and the rest just keeps on growing. The ones I bought come in groups of three and can be found on the fresh, chilled, speciality counter near the front door (if they all have the same floor plan). I'm hoping I can harvest them all summer next year and freeze them somehow to keep me in spring onions all winter. I could be completely wrong and they might just die, but it's worth a try. Come to think of it, I'd better rescue the bit of ginger I bought from the fridge tomorrow. Planning on planting it up too and getting a never-ending supply ... They say it can be done
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