Happy Easter.

Or happy Passover, though I know that's already done with, or happy spring. Whichever!

We celebrated Easter in a four-year-old's favorite way, by hunting chocolate easter eggs. :D I hid a pretty generous amount, and I keep telling the kiddo that she doesn't have to eat them all this morning, but she insists that she wants to. We're about a third of the way in right now. He he he.

I'd say "she's going to be so hyper!" but a.) the sugar=hyper thing may actually be a myth (they've done some interesting studies where it turns out that the biggest factor in whether parents report their children as being hyperactive is whether the researches told the parents the kids were given sugar. Lol.) and b.) she's four, hyper is her natural state at nearly all times. She has three modes, hyper, having a meltdown, and asleep.

She is generously sharing the chocolate, at least. :D It's cute, she insisted on going in and giving an egg to JJ, too.

Also, our seeds have sprouted! Just one type, and I've already totally forgotten what I planted where, so I dunno what it is. Some kind of herb. He hehe. Happy spring indeed!

Foods!

I really should take photos of my cooking more. I'm not a great photographer, or a great cook for that matter, but it'd be nice to have pictures to put with this.

Since going into lockdown, I've cooked the following:

Pot Roast. (A normal amount, about four servings.)
Butter chicken. (A double batch, eight servings.)
Potatoes and gravy. (Using leftover pot roast juices for a truly stellar gravy.)
Chicken rice-a-roni (Made starting with cheese rice-a-roni but with lots of add-ons. Something we eat a ton of, a monster batch, I want to say 20 servings?)
Rice pudding. (Made that twice! Came out great both times.)
Carbonara. (Does this count? I plopped egg yolks and parmesan into a pan of hot noodles. I didn't have bacon or anything. Going to do it with bacon tomorrow.)
Biscuits and Gravy (Which was tonight's meal, and probably should have been three servings and had some leftovers, but JJ and I gorged ourselves, so it was two servings, lol.)

And oodles and oodles and oodles of things like instant ramen and so on, but that's not really "cooking" as such.

Since this is over the course of what, nearly a month now? It's not actually that much cooking. But it's more cooking than I'm prone to doing. There's a reason we do things like the 20 serving rice-a-roni. Those are freezer meals, which we portion out and freeze and then eat for weeks. So we cook a huge thing once or twice a month, and break that up with stuff like instant noodles etc., and most days don't actually "cook" meals at all. My usual lunch is yogurt and my usual breakfast is coffee and toast. :3 I've never been a real cooking person, and the idea of doing the Standard Stay Home Parent Thing of cooking a full meal every single night makes me want to scream.

Add on to that the fact that JJ is an amazing cook, and so when we want something fancy, he's the one who does it. Valentine's and anniversary meals are all him, these days, we don't even eat out! But nooooooooooot me, nope. If it involves fancy ingredients or fiddly methods, I will opt out rather than ruin it!

So I don't cook much. Which means that this is a lot of cooking for me! Nothing better to do, I guess. Or nothing better to do that I can focus on. Cooking does take thinking (I know this because I used to cook without thinking, and oh god. Have you ever burned boiled eggs? I have!) but it's still not something that requires focus and intellectual spoons in the way that writing does!

Thus. I cook. :3

Do you all cook? Been doing that more lately? Less? About the same? Anything you're proud of?

I am super proud of the gravy, tbh. Dumb thing to be proud of, gravy is easy, but making pot roast, saving all the juice, and making the best damn beef gravy ever pleases me greatly.

Anything you're planning for the future? Excited about?

I'm about bouncing off the walls with excitement about my farm share box. Friday! Less than a week and I should be able to get the first one!