I cook
It helps me to relax (or if it goes wrong, just become a different type of stressed :P). Generally, the worse the stress, the more complicated the food I do.
Exams soon, definitely considering getting the ingredients, pan, and wood for the bbq to do a proper traditional paella just for the challenge (/as an excuse to impress friends/have a few beers). (If anyone can suggest where I might be able to pick up some saffron in Oxford, tell me please, the supermarkets always seem a bit crap for obscure/posh stuff, and can't think of anywhere I've discovered in the market that would.)
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 20 May 2010, 19:40, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Try a better sort of supermarket.
Google it.

Edit, dont bother with the google. Why don't you go into an indian takeaway and ask the staff if you can have (buy) a teaspoon full?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 20 May 2010, 19:43, Reply)

Tried
Only have the middle of town/Summertown supermarkets due to lack of transport, which consists of an OKish Sainsburys, a crap co-op, and a not that great M&S.
There's a deli in the covered market I might try next time I'm in town though, the internet seems to think it's pretty good.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 20 May 2010, 19:58, Reply)

I love Oxford Market, you've got to be lucky with it.
Especially the cheese.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 20 May 2010, 20:01, Reply)

The cheese man is nice and smiley
Which in my experience either means he's really good or pretty bad, but I don't eat enough good cheese to be worth finding out (generally a brick of sainsburys cheddar bought during the termly big shop will last me the term)
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 20 May 2010, 20:12, Reply)

Well, I'm pretty sure he sells it in tiny portions.
So as you obviously are not a food chav, save up a bit and create a cheeseboard for a meal one day.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 20 May 2010, 20:15, Reply)

Ooh, good idea
Yeh, definitely no food chavvery here. Closest I get is liking my bacon cooked enough to shatter :D
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 20 May 2010, 20:23, Reply)

That's an indulgence I could live with.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 20 May 2010, 20:25, Reply)

just about any "ethnic" food shop will stock it.
the grotty wee indian shop round the corner here (carlisle, so not exactly metropolitan) sells it and many "obscure/posh" ingredients too.
bloomin' forrins.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 20 May 2010, 19:59, Reply)

Seconded.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 20 May 2010, 20:01, Reply)

The sainsbury's
just down the road from me is fairly little and it has saffron. It's pricy, mind. But thirded, yeah - a lot of ethnic type shops will probably have it too.
(berk, Thu 20 May 2010, 20:17, Reply)