Food glorious food
August 8, 2020Oddly this has been a great food week. I thought Wacken was going to be the great week but just shows what I know. The start of the week wasn’t promising. I just wasn’t inspired to make anything. You know how you get that stuck in a rut feeling and don’t want anything you can think of? I went searching innthe freezer and found Ikea meatballs. I haven’t got many left and I can’t get more but this was exactly the emergency they were waiting for. I even have the sauce to go with them. I need to find the recipe, I know Ikea posted it when lockdown started so I should be able to make them from scratch.
I also discovered some pre cut pieces of chicken leg while I was hunting, which made for a very quick low effort risotto this week too. I never knew the stuff hiding at the back of the freezer could be so inspiring. Friday night is steak night twice a month, so needs very little thought, but this Friday we went one better. We had takeaway pizza for lunch. Maybe that doesn’t excite you, but we haven’t had food I didn’t make since February so for us it was a big event. Our local pub has a large garden and an outdoor pizza oven. It is very well set up to minimise contact and possible risks. We only felt happy trying it because we had been able to chat to the owner. I really hope the personal touch will become more common and more valued, because I really do appreciate it. Fenrir also thought this was amazing. A bonus walk, to a new place (well all of 10 feet new and exciting), and pizza. It was lovely to have food I hadn’t had to cook, and it was really good food. Having eaten at the pub several times I am not at all surprised it was good. I don’t think it will be a regular thing but I will try and get another before the weather turns bad, after all it helps a local business right. I am just doing my civic duty, eating pizza 