tonight i made the same creamy shrimp pasta that i make every few weeks, and it still hasn’t gotten old.
i need to learn new recipes though. i’ve been eating the same things month after month for this entire lockdown, save for when i go to my parents’ place or when they bring me food (which is actually pretty often, so really i shouldn’t be complaining).
every time i go grocery shopping, i buy the same things, and each trip lasts me about four weeks – so the whole month – which is actually pretty crazy to think about considering i usually end up spending less than $100 per trip.
i make pasta (tortellini with storebought sauce), japanese curry (i cheat, using the curry cubes, and add an onion, a few potatoes, a jumbo carrot, and some bean curd tofu stuff), a tuna macaroni casserole, vegetarian stirfy, the creamy shrimp pasta, more japanese curry, and a couple of frozen pizzas.
i order delivery (usually sushi) maybe once or twice a week, but the stuff above is all i make for myself. and breakfast, but all i make for breakfast is egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches.
the tuna casserole and creamy shrimp pasta are really the only things i know how to make that i’m really excited about. so i need to learn more recipes. it would be nice to be excited about every recipe i make.
i guess chili would be a good option. my sister says i should learn how to make sheppard’s pie. tacos and burritos would also probably be pretty easy and pretty good.
maybe i’ll look through recipes on pinchofyum.com tomorrow and decide.
in other news, i think toronto just went into a state of emergency and new stay at home orders have been released.
that’s fine by me really – i don’t have much business being outside, and apparently i’m still allowed to visit my family since i live alone (i just looked it up, and while it is allowed, it’s strongly discouraged).
i have a hard time imagining they’ll be reinforcing these new restrictions very aggressively
maybe i’ll be walking to my parents’ place one day and a cop on a bike or a horse will yell at me to stop and i’ll have to pull out a piece of id and explain myself. but how would they know if i’m lying? technically i still have a roommate, even though sadiq’s been in europe for months with no immediate plans to return.
more likely than not, nothing will happen at all and everything will feel how it’s always felt for me these last few months.
i wonder when things will go back to close to normal.
i wonder what the new normal will be.