Pandemic cooking

Since we're home all the time now, we've started cooking a lot (like everyone else). Like, A LOT.

We have only gotten food cooked by someone else ONE TIME in the past 3 months.

We are also cooking lots of new things: home made tortillas, bread, Thai food, salsa, vegan strawberry shortcake and lots of other vegan things (little L is lactose intolerant).

This is our homemade vegan strawberry shortcake with strawberry compote and real homemade whip cream (little L gets coconut whip cream).

This is me eating tacos with homemade tortillas, chorizo and topped with homemade green tomatillo salsa

These are some of our other favorites: vegan banana chocolate chip muffins

This is one of our favorite cookbooks! Everything in it has been a winner.

We're also cooking lots of family favorites: homemade yogurt, ice cream, chicken soup, enchiladas,

Our homemade yogurt - we often top with a strawberry compote or teaspoon of sugar

We're also experimenting with some really interesting stuff like kimchi and fermented peppers, sauerkraut, etc (we started this before the pandemic), sourdough and other kinds of bread, and growing our own veggies (more on this later).

One of our loaves of bread - super delicious!

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Cooking is an easy thing to do while the kids are working on other projects, especially things that can be started and stopped a lot. The kids even help sometimes!

Big L helping little L knead the dough for some bread. The first time I asked little L to knead the dough he thought I said "EAT the dough" and he took a big bite of it! We had to run after him and get him to spit it out! It caused quite the laugh.

Little L LOVES washing dishes, which is a real blessing when you are cooking a lot. He'll wash dishes for an hour sometimes!