Cooking in Quarantine
Like you, I have also been extremely bored in quarantine and have run out of new activities to do. However, I found cooking and baking to be a hobby that I can do everyday. Although going to the supermarket is difficult these days, I find it a fun challenge to find/alter recipes so that you can make delicious snacks/meals with what you have in your house already. Using basic recipes and spicing it up based on your preferences is super easy! Here are some of my favorite simple foods to make (there are plenty of recipes online!):
Buffalo chicken quesadilla
Ingredients: flour tortilla, shredded mexican blend/mozzarella cheese, chicken of any kind (I like to use shredded up rotisserie chicken), buffalo sauce, and a little bit of ranch
Directions: Heat up your tortilla in a pan with some oil, mix the rest of your ingredients together, put it all in the tortilla, and flip!
Microwave banana bread in a mug
Ingredients: mashed banana, 1 egg, 1 tbsp milk, 1 tsp oil, 3 tbsp flour, some cinnamon, and some chocolate chips
Directions: Mix all the ingredients together and microwave for 2 min in a microwave-safe mug.
Cinnamon french toast sticks
Ingredients: 1 tbsp of butter, 2 pieces of stale white bread, 1 egg, ⅛ cup of milk, pinch of salt, vanilla extract, 1 tsp cinnamon powder, and 2 tsp white sugar
Directions: Mix your egg, milk, salt, and vanilla. Cut your bread into 3 slivers per piece (I like to cut off the crust), and dip the pieces into the egg, milk, salt, and vanilla mixture. Mix the cinnamon and sugar together separately. Cook the bread pieces in a buttered pan and then dip into the cinnamon and sugar mixture when done.
Parmesan garlic fries
Ingredients: potatoes, salt and pepper, parmesan cheese, parsley, and garlic
Directions: Cut up potatoes so that they’re like fries, season with salt, pepper, and oil, bake potatoes to however well you like them, and then toss them in the rest of the ingredients after.
2-ingredient ice cream
Ingredients: 2 frozen bananas and 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
Directions: Freeze your bananas overnight and then blend with the cocoa powder! Super simple and healthy!
Thick smoothie bowl
Ingredients: frozen fruit (ex. 2 bananas) and fresh fruit (ex. strawberries)
Directions: Just blend the two! You can add more fruits and even veggies if you want. Just make sure the frozen-to-not-frozen ratio stays equal (half and half).