I’m already dropping the ball on weekly posts as we seem very busy, considering we are in lockdown.
What we have been eating:
We’re still lucking out on food deliveries and with careful planning, I haven’t needed to go to the shops. I get an Ocado delivery about every 10 days and most things do arrive, with some missing items and a good few substitutions.I timed the deliveries really badly with Charlie’s Birthday at the end of the 10-day run meaning we didn’t have much fresh, but we managed and he got his requested Chocolate Mousse Cake (doesn’t look very impressive but tasted lovely) and blueberry pancake breakfast,followed by sushi and Vietnamese roll lunch complete with Ramune then ‘posh’ burgers for tea. It was lucky we had everything in for the sushi and I found a Vietnamese Roll kit (by Nem Viet) in the cupboard.Amazon helpfully filled the gap of any weird foods we needed including lots of things C requested as gifts (only one of my kids can ask for food for his Birthday!!).For some reason we can’t buy frozen sweetcorn but we can get fresh so there has been lots of salsa Delia style and we had our first BBQ over the weekend.For bread, I bought a Lekue silicone thing for baking in as I am sick of trying to get sticky dough into a hot Le Creuset pan (which is how I normally do it), the jury is out on this one at the moment, it does work in that you mix and bake your dough in the same container but it isn’t quite big enough for my normal bread recipes. I need to try it a few more times to see how it really works out.I forgot to mention we made pine tip syrup to go with C’s birthday pancakes. You basically put the tips with a thin slice of lemon layered into a jar with equal sugar and let it sit in a sunny position for
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