Missing ingredients

Have you ever started to make a recipe and find that you are missing an ingredient? Sometimes it is a minor ingredient and you can make do without, or you can substitute it with something else. Other times, it is a main ingredient, you still might be able to substitute, but you could end up with a totally different dish entirely. Then there are the times where nothing else will do, the ingredient you are missing is essential to the dish, nothing can replace it. You can't make the dish and you have to wait until you can buy the ingredient. There are times when it is a staple, something you should always have on hand and when you don't, it is a little disconcerting. Why is is it not in the cupboard where it belongs, how could you forget it? How can you salvage the recipe you are trying to make? I am missing a main ingredient in my kitchen right now, I can't replace it, I can't subtitute it and I can't wait to have it back where it belongs. Sometimes, you don't even realize you are missing it until it isn't there, and you realize how very important and essential and needed that ingredient is. It is the main ingredient that makes everything richer, sweeter, tastier and much more enjoyable. You can live without it, but why would you want to, when everything tastes so much better with it!