With grocery store runs limited, supplies low, and will to eat healthy even lower, the quarantine has been a masterclass in cooking with what’s available. Yes, our mothers finally got their wish and we ate the food we had at home. And according to some folks lockdown recipes, we’ve been a creative bunch with it.
- Lasagne Toasties. While everyone else was buying rollerblades, Stumade the right choice and bought a sandwich grill at the start of lockdown. And it wasn’t soon after he pulled it out of the box that he had a eureka moment. “Lasagne Toasties.” He just so happened to have leftover lasagna that day so he cut it up and pressed it on his sandwich maker. It was an instant hit. He says they’ve been eating them at his house ever since and it’s to the point that all his “kids smell of oregano.”
- Sad pasta. Adam is now known for a dish that his roommates have named “Sad Pasta.” It’s pasta mixed with mayo, ketchup, mustard, garlic powder, and some pickle juice. It’s basically a deconstructed burger without the meat, toppings, or ability to ever be served in a restaurant. Adam says it was a staple of their lockdown lunches and best enjoyed with “an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
- Tomato soup pizza. With the pizza shops near him closed down, Derek Taylor had to get creative to quench his craving for a decent slice. And thus, the “tomato soup pizza” was born. He mixed the ground almonds his girlfriend had been using for marzipan with egg and water to make the dough and half a can of tomato soup as the sauce. Topped with some crumbly cheese from the fridge he says it “was not as bad as you would expect.”
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Source:The Guardian