Necessity is the mother of invention

It's unusually cold here and it snowed tonight! This only happens once or twice a year in Vancouver.

Time for some comfort food I thought to myself as I drove home. Gulay (my Filipino stew of tomotaes, cabbage and pork) seemed to be the ticket. I guess my brain must have been frozen because I forgot the cabbage that I had bought for the gulay at the supermarket!

Rather than venture out into the cold, I looked into the fridge to see what I could use instead. Luckily, I had a zucchini left over from our winter warm up party. Aha! Perfect! And it was! After all, "gulay" actually is a generic word for vegetables!

I simply cooked the recipe without cabbage! At the end I put the zucchini (chopped up into bite-sized pieces) in and simmered it with the lid on for about two minutes. Mmmm! I love improvising like this.