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We get our groceries delivered, to avoid having to battle through the supermarket at the busy hours when everyone else is off work, too.

It saves us money as we can stick to our budget easily - the temptations of impulse purchases are easier to resist, and we can remove non-essential items at the end of the process if the total is too high. It also makes list-making and shopping almost one job. It's convenient being able to open a browser window for seasonal ingredients, another for recipe inspiration, and the cupboards just next to me to check stock, and then add what I need to the cart online.

We choose the delivery time that means the supplier is already in the area, so it must be more efficient environmentally for dozens of people to have their groceries concentrated into one journey rather than each driving to the supermarket and back, right?

Was nominated this morning (yikes!) to host an Easter lunch. Randomly decided the best way to get lots of eggs involved would be to do brunch for lunch, so cooking: sausage, kale and feta frittata; pimiento corn muffins; ham; creamed spinach. Luckily got a strudel in the freezer so that will save work on dessert! Happy easter all :)

Cooked up a lasagne with a friend last night, I made the red sauce and she did the white, we had a lot of fun. :)

Pretty inspired to cook as it's so cold outside (and inside tbh!)

Tried the baked sweet potatoes w/w chickpea spinach goodness from this site last night, definite win! Tonight, stirring up a mega batch of chilli, feels like the perfect place to be as it's just started snowing outside. For the game, nachos with the queso recipe just linked, and hot chicken drumsticks and blue cheese dip from a tried-and-tested recipe :)

A big batch of squash and pine nut risotto for dinners, and cheese sandwiches and flapjacks to be eaten outside in the middle of a day-long ride around the queen's backyard ;)

Must roast some chickens so I can use my new giant 12 qt stock pot, I cannot wait! Or maybe stock the freezer with some mega batches of something or other!

Making some chicken stock, assembling and freezing apple strudel for next Sunday's family Thanksgiving lunch for 10, and baking pecan pie tartlets to take to our cycle club on Thursday night :)

We had 13 friends over for a Halloween party last night, our first buffet party so trying to work out dishes that don't require a table!

We made a tray of spicy bourbon chicken drumsticks with blue cheese dip which disappeared pretty quickly, lamb meatballs, chilled beetroot soup, roasted potato stacks, a cheese board with apples from the garden (a friend brought some incredible goat gouda), and poire belle Hélène for afters.

Oh, and we mixed some dark and stormys, and a giant bowl of brandy apple punch. Loving the cool weather cooking.

Baked Camembert with boiled potatoes and green salad :)

Never, unless I have people over. Just not that excited by sweets. Give me a cheese plate every time.

Roasting a chicken for dinner and easy meals later in the week, and baking some zucchini muffins to start getting the freezer stocked for family arriving later in the week!