I couldn’t possibly compete. My days of cooking are pretty much done. After 35y in a house with a good sized kitchen, family to cook for, Easter & Christmas dinners for 10 etc I decided on moving into our small town centre apartment there was no point in trying to replicate that lifestyle.
So for the past 11y I seem just to assemble plain food. Himself goes downstairs in the lift to our larder (Sainsbury’s) and we buy good quality butter, cheeses, eggs, veggies that I don’t mess about with much. Years ago I actually did make a tray of large stuffed mushrooms (!) but I agree, life is too short to do that. I’ve done a lot of it over the years and I don’t miss it. I’d be so out of practice in a competition!
We have more bars, cheese courts, restaurants and pizza parlours here than you could shake a stick at, so living here encourages us to support them. (My excuse anyway).
When we first moved in I was enjoying a flat white after work one late afternoon and my mum rang my mobile. I’ll always remember this exchange:
Mum - ‘where are you?’
Me - ‘in Costa mum’
Mum - ‘what are you doing in there? You have a perfectly good kettle at home, right above you!’
Me - ‘it’s called town centre living, mum!’
I saw an ad about this concept the other day. It said ‘Less Cooking & More Living’. It made me smile. It sums up my take on things nowadays.
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I’d love to sit at your table Sago. I’d happily wash up afterwards! Your menu sounds delicious.
