Crazy Cooking

Before lock down I would fast until 1200 and then have a salad or something like chicken and vegetables, dinner would be peanuts and some wine. Things have drastically changed since then.  I am ending the second month of being stuck at home and I can quite literally say I am going a little cabin crazy.  The highlight of the week is being invited by a neighbour for a cup of tea in her garden, a new garden, sunlight and talking to someone other than myself, bliss!

The one thing I have been doing is cooking more inventive meals.   My cousin who I shared a house with for a few years loves sausages and we had them regularly when we lived together.  So regularly I really went off them.  However this week I bought some apple and pork sausages and  cooked them with mash and the most amazing onion gravy.  The photo does not do justice to the food.

I used the leftover sausages to make a spicy pasta sauce and added some broccoli for this meal.  It was not as successful as I would have liked and I have to eat it for the next three to six meals. I really need to learn to cut an onion finely.  I blame my knife as I have two of the most useless knives from the dark days.

I have realised that I actually like  cooking and in another life would have loved to have cooked for family and friends allot more.  I have also been trying to eat a little more healthily with salad.  I have been watching cooking shows and found a great recipe for peri peri chicken.  I had this with salad, coleslaw and beetroot salad.

Life is a little like my cooking at the moment small moments of excitement and happiness and then moments of complete disaster.  As much as everyone says salmon is good for you I really cannot stand the smell and actually even the taste unless drowned in soy sauce or butter.

I have a friend who has salad with her meals and she would be amazed that I am doing this now.

I am listening to Joni Mitchell at the moment and hope that in years to come I will listen again to her and smile thinking of a different time.   Have a great weekend my amazing people.