Working and fitting in life
I’m thinking about putting some of my recipes down in a cook book as I’m sitting watching Saturday Kitchen.
The past few months, Saturday morning has been spent making my pasta for the week with Saturday Kitchen playing in the background while I’m hands on and my focus while I’m doing the waiting.
I’m 48 and I watch these recipes thinking, such a lot of effort. Not just the shopping, the prep and the cooking but dealing with the aftermath!
As you get older and try to fit everything into a day, you find the short cuts. I make scrambled eggs with only dirtying the pan and the spoon – but it’s delicious.
I cooked rissotto on Thursday, but to save washing up, I cut the chicken breasts up with scissors. It means I don’t need to deal with a meaty soiled chopping board. One board is used for the veg but not for the meat. Saves space too.
I love fish – I cook fish in the microwave. It’s quick, tasty and ready in minutes. As a simple tea for one, trout, peas and boiled potatoes with horse raddish sauce is ready in minutes.
Last week I made a microwave cooked tomato soup from tinned tomatoes. In 15 minutes, I had a tasty soup for 1 with a “bung-em-in-the-oven” baguette for some carbs to help give me the energy. Using a hand blender to mash it in the litre jug used to cook the food means it’s an easy wash-up.
Eh?
Fill up the jug with water and switch the blender back on in the water – while the soup is cooling, that makes and a cleaner jug and blender wand as the food clinging to the blades are thrown in to the water and the food stuck the jug is pulled off into the water.
When you’ve finished the soup, the washing up is very simple.
Oh, making it simple?
Absolutely. Bon appetit!
Posted: May 29th, 2021 under 42.