Now that these newsletters are more spaced apart, it seems like I would have more interesting things to tell you. Instead, Pandemic Extended Remix™ looks a lot like early Pandemic:
I worked on a quilt thing
I bought something
I cooked a thing
Shortages/hoarding???
I haven’t actually noticed any renewed hoarding but then again I learned my lesson in April and have just made it a habit to have enough flour, canned beans, and toilet paper. Although who knows what people will hoard next? Maybe it will be fancy flavored coffee creamers or bacon or mustard. In any event, our mini chest freezer was delivered yesterday (another thing people hoarded earlier this year) and now I can hoard meats and frozen tater tots, too.
The other five-star pandemic purchase I’ve made recently is the SodaStream. We both like plain bubbly water (my husband will drink club soda from a can) and now we can guzzle as much of it as we want. When you make 2-3 bottles of bubbly water per day you do go through the gas canisters in a fairly speedy manner but Pandemic has dulled my THAT’S RIDICULOUS response to many things, including the apparent inconvenience of buying (probably) overpriced canisters of CO2 every few weeks. YES I AM USING THE RECYCLING PROGRAM THEY OFFER.
I cooked a thing: We watch a lot of Jamie Oliver cooking shows, and the latest one, which was birthed in early Pandemic, allegedly focuses on things you can cook with ingredients you have sitting around the house or things that are inexpensive. Now – the fact that millionaire Jamie Oliver goes about cheerfully “tossing together” these dishes in a way only an actual professional chef can, surrounded by various of his five (???) tousle-haired British children in what has to be an extremely pricey piece of real estate, softly lit by gentle English sunlight and/or a production crew, does not actually detract from the fact that his recipes are pretty easy to make. Also, there is something very merry about him, probably that he says “cheeky” and “lovely jubbly” so often.
This is all a very long way of saying I made Jamie’s cauliflower cheese pasta, and it was good.