The Extreme Staycation

Location: London, UK COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak Lockdown Cooking and Baking How is everyone doing on the cooking front? I've taken this as an opportunity to try some new recipes.  It's been quite fun and I've definitely found a few new ones which will be coming out again. However, as soon as I found a lush new south-east Asian aubergine dish, the aubergines disappeared from Sainsbury's! I've taken to shopping just once a week as much as I can. This does mean purchasing faintly ridiculous quantities of some items, namely bananas - we eat a lot in my house and yesterday I bought 17 in varying shades of yellow to green to keep us going. Apparently our shopping habits have reverted back to what they were 10-15 years ago with people doing one weekly shop rather than 3-4 times a week as has become more common. I finally got some more flour - hooray!  And celebrated by making some carrot, pecan and maple syrup muffins which were delish!

Location: London, UK COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak Food I love food and I think about food most of the time We all need to eat and food (and toilet paper) seem to be sending people bonkers. I get it, we don't know what's going to happen.  We don't know when this will end.  We don't want to starve.  We are used to being able to get any food, any time. The supermarkets assure us there is enough food, so let's believe them and dial down the crazy. We all have ridiculous empty supermarket shelve stories so I won't share mine, but I will share how I tried to buy bananas from a small independent shop, he tried to charge me £5 for about 10 bananas.  I declined to buy them.  I used slightly more colourful language in my head but you don't need to hear that. My biggest concern right now is waste.  I hate waste.  I truly hope that all of the fresh fruit, vegetables and bread that have been purchased by the tonne are being eaten and used.  ...