![]() ![]() Try a super-easy Asian dumpling noodle soup using frozen dumplings and pantry stock. ![]() Soups are satisfying for body and soul when we’re feeling poorly. They’re a base ingredient in this comforting Beef and broccolini pasta bake which will keep everyone in the family happy. Use them to make a simple pasta sauce, or in chilli or a curry. The other canned essential is humble tinned tomatoes. Make the most of lentils with this hearty Red lentil and pumpkin soup (if you’re sniffling this one is deeply comforting, too). You can keep it as simple as baked beans on toast, or get a bit more creative and try these tasty Taco bowls with spicy beans or this Mexi-bean frittata. Here are some delicious slow-cooker ideas perfect to stash in the freezer.Ĭanned beans, lentils and chickpeas are a great pantry standby and can be the basis of many a delicious meal. If you’re lucky enough to be well, it’s a good idea to spend a day in the kitchen making meals that you can use later or freeze and reheat, in case you don’t feel up to it in a few days. Here are some ideas to help you set up to eat well in self-isolation. It might also be a nice distraction when you’re cooped up. This will help you keep costs down and make sure you have everything you need to feel comfortable at home.Ĭooking your own meals, if you’re feeling up to it – is a budget-friendly and healthy option. You can download this easy meal planner to jot down what you’ll need for the recipes you’ll make over the coming weeks. In many places, you can order your groceries online and have them delivered, or you can collect them from lockers, so you don’t need to come in contact with anyone. UberEats is offering an option to have your food left on the doorstep, so no one needs to make contact. And, for 2020 more than any year before, genuinely healing.Food delivery services are an ideal and convenient solution, if they’re available where you are.Ĭonsider the healthier options in food-and-recipe box services and enjoy trying some new recipes.Īnd, of course, restaurant delivery services such as UberEats are good when you don’t feel like cooking. Lawson’s programmes are fantastical and daydreamy, but never out-of-touch. We can see in her the kinds of characteristics we aspire for, or plain love the most. It’s made it easy to transpose our own narratives onto her. For someone so famous, Lawson is curiously enigmatic, and it’s probably for that reason that she has always seemed so personable. The kitchen she cooks in on TV is not her own, nor is the garden where she sits and eats and enjoys her own company. We don’t truthfully know how Lawson has spent her lockdown, or whether she really lives alone. “It’s partly just the anticipation of biting into this … I’m going in.” When Lawson did finally take a bite, she wandered slightly out of frame, so bewitched by her own food that it seemed she’d forgotten she was being filmed. “A ceremonial hush has fallen over me,” she told the camera. “Slather city”, as she dubbed it, saw an immaculately golden piece of chicken decorated in garlic mayo, iceberg lettuce, gherkin, kimchi and pickled onions. Lawson treated it like a love story between sharp flavours and crunchy noises. It was that recipe that produced some of the greatest television of this year. In its place has been a feeling of quiet, of a woman in her kitchen preparing food for herself and smiling. Perhaps because of the pandemic, her latest series, Cook, Eat, Repeat, hasn’t had any of that indistinct hubbub over a dinner table. Lawson would watch her guests moan in ecstasy over a lemon tendercake or a black treacle ham. Her friends and family would gather under fairy lights, all scooping delicious food from shared bowls. Lawson’s older programmes typically ended with a feast. It’s that distinction that makes her so important. As in so many of her shows, she also wanders fancy London streets alone, like a Richard Curtis heroine wrapped in an expensive coat. She makes food alone, eats alone, sorts through her big stash of liquorice alone. Nigella Lawson spends so much time talking to us in her new BBC series that it takes a while to notice she’s always alone. ![]()
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