Lenten recipe 1

Office lunch, Lent style already

Ingredients:

Three potato pancakes (placki ziemniaczane). Available at the Mini Europa round the corner from the office. Price 1.78 złotys for a tray of three.

100g jar of lumpfish caviar. Bathroom tile grout quality, the cheapest they do. Mini Europa, 14 złotys something for the jar (8 something at Auchan!)

Method:

Remove pancakes from tray, place on plate and microwave for two minutes. By now, they're piping hot. Smear lumpfish caviar thickly on each one, consume while hot. Delicious. Wash down with unpasteurised pressed apple juice. Dessert: One kiwi fruit. To be eaten at desk.

Wait a second - isn't Lent supposed to be about self-denial and ascetism? Well, it's only lumpfish caviar - not really caviar, not even cod roe. A propos of which... why is cod roe unavailable in Poland?

This time last year:
Nearly half way through Lent (!)