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| San Pietro a Pettine Black Truffle Vinagrette - £19.99 |
I have these moments, they aren’t too frequent (thankfully), that pop up when in the midst of giddiness and excitement. It’s usually when I’m feeling overly happy which lends itself to a wanton approach to my finances – and hence the infamous IMPULSE BUY. Luckily my impulse buys usually manifest themselves in a way that doesn’t shatter my bottom line and allows for the somewhat continued "normalcy" of things like paying rent and buying groceries.
Although recently while waiting to meet a friend for dinner in Westbourne Park I ended up buying an exorbitantly expensive straw hat. This is not socially acceptable impulse buying. I mean seriously, A STRAW HAT should NEVER cost that much. Oh well, it is um erm - an investment piece? Anyway, I digress.
I had a slightly less expensive impulse buy a few months back - although in all likelihood on a similar scale to the straw hat. I was perusing the lovely items in the Selfridges Food Hall. I mean, who DOESN'T treat themselves to a few lovely bits and bobs when at the Selfridges Food Hall? Anyway, I ended up picking up a bottle of (for all intents and purposes) salad dressing, consciously clocking the ridiculous price (£19.99 / $30ish), but justifying to myself quite quickly that it must be the most delicious dressing to ever grace our fair planet.
And I have to admit, it is pretty dang good. Certainly not an everyday use kind of dressing, it's thick enough to marinate which I did with chicken which was then tossed with black truffle pasta, broccoli and truffle butter or thinned out with a little EVOO and tossed on your favourite greens. I was even super naughty and used it as a dipper for some parmesan truffle fries I made one night. That was possibly the best use for it so far...but the fried potato deliciousness might have helped.
Anyway, while I'm not sure I'll be impulse buying a £19.99 bottle of salad dressing again anytime soon I can say that it was a wise erm...um...investment piece?
