Just before Christmas I started working at home on a full-time basis due to health reasons, which, of course means I’m in charge of cooking dinner. I don’t think I have ever been ‘in charge’ of dinner, so this is a nice novelty for me. When commuting back from London and getting home at around 6.30pm I was never in the mood for cooking anything. If I lived on my own I’m sure I would have lots of pasta and baked beans on toast for dinner. I would be very skinny but most probably very unhealthy. Being a non-meat eater I have to be creative with meals so I make sure I’m getting enough protein from beans, diary, eggs or fish. I like Quorn as well at least once a week as well.
As well as a love for baking cakes I now can cook Mexican bean wraps, Quorn chilli, vegetable Moroccan tagine, lasagne, vegetable and butter bean stew, bean burgers and various fish dishes (normally the fish is just baked in the oven). It is quite fun looking for recipes and this is what I need to keep being motivated in cooking every night. The internet has a wealth of recipes so now I can have a good curry takeaway and then find a million recipes for it online. Just like the Chana Masala I cooked the other week. In addition, I seem to like cooking stew-style dishes like tagines or chillis and baked dishes like pies. Not that I haven’t cooked a pastry-topped pie yet – I think that is mainly because of the high fat content in pastry but that is what makes them so yummy. Funny, but it makes me feel smug that we eat home-cooked food and not food from the freezer or out of a jar!
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