A bit of a mess, but basically ok

I have been rather open about finding the intro to Lockdown 2: Electric Boogaloo a strain. (Not least because of the repeated Electric Boogaloo joke, I apologise for compounding the problem.) But the reality, and other recent news, has been a bit of a relief. I'm not in a brilliant place, but I think I'm persevering. After Confined Cocktails chat, it sounded like many of you were in a similar position: not dreadful, if a bit flat.

With suitably pathetic fallacy, my cooking has been a bit like that this weekend. Not fab, but getting the job done better than grimly. 

It's veganish week, and my weekend dinners have been suitably post-Colombian - sweet potatoes, with corn. Per person, one roasted sweet potato and one corn cob. Put the latter in a foil parcel with some onion wedges and slather it in butter (shh) mixed with garlic and cumin. 40 minutes works well for both, I doubt 5 mins either way would be a problem.

 

To serve, cut the corn off and mix it into the roasted sweet potato with its lush juices, then attempt to put it back into the skins and roast for another 5 minutes. In practice, the lack of integrity in sweet potato jackets vs spuds proper will mean this is a splodge. But it will taste ok. (The recipe actually wants you to mix in a can of black beans between 4 people at this point too, but I'm finding it hard to source black beans and this seemed like plenty anyway. I can only imagine it would be even messier.)

Serve with a big splodge of salsaish stuff made with lime, honey and loads of coriander. 

It's delicious, actually, especially with the salsa. Just, you know, not first date foods. Luckily, we don't need those at the moment. 

(Lest you think I'm making too much of a metaphor out of one dish, my weekend lunches have been leftover rice turned into soup with stock, spring onions and a bag of rocket and watercress salad. A beauty, it is not, and if I'm honest it's not the most palatable texture, all gloopy. Perfectly tasty winter soup, though. And whatever else I blog from this week will be, at best, splodgy.)