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The Ultimate Coronavirus Cooking Guide: Using your stores, making the basics, stretching it out.

March 19, 2020 by Stacey 6 Comments

Well, here we are. Hunkered down in our houses, trying to work, or wrangle kids, or both, or figuring out how we’re going to get any Children’s Nurofen, or if our parents will be ok, or how safe are we when we head out to work, or how are we going to get our families to like beans all of a sudden, or how we’ll feed our children who have allergies, or how we’ll pay our bills now that our businesses are going under, or how our immunocompromised friends will stay safe, or that we have to go work a double shift in the ICU, or how our elderly neighbours will fare, or how to teach grade 6 maths to kids who’d rather watch TikTok, or will there be any milk when we actually do get to the shops, or quieting squabbling siblings, or any number of cares weighing on us at the moment, above and beyond the cares we were already labouring under.

These truly are frightening times and I worry about us all. Not to mention the long term impacts this will have on everybody for years to come. We all had nightmares here last night and that’s from a family who are healthy, safe, level-headed, and will more than likely get through this crisis relatively unscathed. My stomach is in constant knots thinking of the struggles the people of the world are facing, all while being lighthearted and calm for the children’s sake.

The thing that is getting me through is the thing that always gets me through: home and hearth. This is where we are together as a family, where life goes on, where good food is made, music is always on, and cosiness is paramount. I take my position as chief nest-featherer very seriously and it certainly helps to feel in control of the things I can control, and keep our family traditions going. We all need them right now.

I’ve never been more grateful that I can bake a loaf of bread, can a tomato harvest, knit a blanket, and make a meal out of nothing. These sorts of things suddenly seem more important than anything.

With that, here are my favourite things. I hope they become your favourites too. I cannot overstate the importance of your home smelling like something delicious from the oven when the world outside has gone to shit.

Breads

My number one piece of advice to you in breadmaking is get yourself some bread improver, if you can find it. I stubbornly avoided it for years, but honestly it’s the only way you’ll make that soft white bread you grew up on in any kind of hurry.

Plain white bread (recipe is for garlic bread, but bake it without the garlic butter and in a bread tin, if you have one. Otherwise go rustic in a big slab on a tray!)

Garlic bread

Traditional brown soda bread (swap wholemeal for white flour to make regular soda bread or damper, excellent for when you can’t get yeast)

Southern buttermilk biscuits (good for when you only have self-raising flour, or if your loaves keep failing and you need a break – it will happen!)

Crumpets (this has just reminded me I’ve never blogged the English muffin recipe – stay tuned)

Fluffy white bread rolls

Rye bread

Bagels

Scrolls – cheese – pizza

Pizza

Focaccia

No-knead, no-yeast dinner rolls

Wraps/flatbreads: Mix one cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon olive oil and 150ml of water together in a bowl. Leave to rest for about 20 minutes. Then divide into 12, roll out flat as you can, and dry-fry in a hot pan until brown on each side.

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Sweet baking basics

Scones – pumpkin – savoury – raspberry and white chocolate

Pikelets – banana pikelets – apple and cinnamon – GF buckwheat blueberry

Apple pie

Crepes

Hot cross buns

Apple scrolls

Vegan pancakes (helpful for when you can’t get your hands on eggs!)

Vegan French toast (ditto!)

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Simple cakes

Apple and cinnamon tea cake

Raspberry jam cake (can sub jam with whatever tinned fruit you have on hand, or frozen/fresh)

Pear cake

Banana cake

Ginger cake

Fruitcake

Vegan banana bread

Vegan chocolate cupcakes\

Biscuits, Crackers, Slices and Muffins

Old-fashioned jam drops

Basic muffin mix

Vegan raspberry muffins

Choc chip oatmeal cookies

Vanilla sugar cookies

Egg-free banana and peach muffins

Graham crackers

Lemon coconut slice

Cherry Ripe slice

Shortbread

Wartime raspberry biscuits

3 – ingredient cheesy crackers

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Puddings and Desserts

Bread and butter pudding – and another

Apple and golden syrup pudding

Self-saucing lemon pudding

Peach cobbler (excellent with any kind of tinned fruit you have, really)

Roasted pumpkin and millet risotto: Millet makes a lovely creamy risotto, a great alternative to rice. This recipe has roasted pumpkin and optional cheese.

Storecupboard Staple Meals

Risotto – pumpkin and fennel – goat cheese and tomato – mushroom – pumpkin and pea – millet risotto – substitute literally any veggie you have on hand – its a good way of eating the ones you don’t particularly like, and may even save a canned veg situation that’s not that palatable on its own or in another dish. Desperate times!

Rissoles – meatballs – lasagne (made with TVP, not mince)

Polenta – with ratatouille – cheesy polenta with egg and chilli – fried polenta

Pasta – find all my favourites here.

Beans – spicy black beans, vegetarian ‘fish’ cakes using cannellini beans, white chocolate blondie bars using white beans, smoky baked barbecue beans, homemade refried beans, black bean and corn salsa, pumpkin and cannelini bean salad, Disney World bean chili, black bean quesadillas, spicy black bean quinoa bowls –Mexican bean dip.

lentils – chipotle lentil tacos – lasagne – balsamic lentil bolognese – Vegetarian Meatloaf – lentil curry – spiced lentil soup – Sprouted Lentil Salad with Lemon and Feta – Sprouted Lentil and Roasted Beetroot Salad with Goat Cheese – crock-pot kitchari – sweet potato and red lentil bisque – vegetarian shepherds pie – other goodies in this post.

Rice – Mexican rice – roasted cauliflower and brown rice salad – teriyaki pineapple fried rice – easy fried rice – sweet chilli tofu and rice – golden rice salad – pumpkin and brown rice salad

Quinoa – Miso roast pumpkin and quinoa bowl – quinoa and raw veggie salad with green goddess dressing – quinoa, goat cheese and antipasto salad – quinoa “meatballs” – veggie quinoa bites – lemon quinoa salad with herbs and feta – carrot and avocado quinoa bites – quinoa fritters – roasted veggie quinoa burgers – roast vegetable and quinoa salad – quinoa tabbouli.

Chickpeas – Chickpea Tagine with Cinnamon, Cumin and Carrots – Simple Minestrone – Roasted Pumpkin Hommus – Baby Beet and Feta Salad – plain hummus – Space Curry

Tofu – Southern Fried Tofu – Quick Sweet Chilli Tofu and Rice – Tofu Banh Mi – General Tso’s Tofu – Smoky Barbecue Kebabs

Soups

Simple Minestrone

Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup

Red Lentil Veggie Soup with Roasted Potato Croutons

Minted Pea Soup with Goat Cheese and Watercress

Potato and Cabbage Soup with a Jalapeno Twist

Cauliflower and Leek Soup

Vegetarian/Vegan Thai Coconut Soup for One

Vegan Split Pea Soup

Hoisin soup with marinated tofu and rice

Roasted Pumpkin soup and Wholemeal Bread

Pumpkin and ginger soup with coconut and chili

Cheesy Veggie Soup – fabulous if you’re having to use frozen or canned

Spiced Lentil Soup

Vegetarian wonton soup

Broccoli Cheese Soup

Vegetarian Corn Chowder

Vegetarian Laksa

Stocks and Sauces

How to make the best full-flavoured vegetable stock

Homemade hot chilli sauce

Homemade smoky-sweet barbecue sauce

Old-fashioned Aussie-style homemade tomato sauce

Simple Roasted Tomato Sauce with Canned Tomatoes

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Go well out there. May the force be with you x

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Comments

  1. joolzmac says

    March 19, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    Thank you so much! I’ll have fun going through these recipes. Having enough flour to go the distance might be the thing but so good to have these to hand if the shops don’t stock breads etc.

    Reply
  2. Reannon says

    March 19, 2020 at 11:57 pm

    Dude!!! What an epic post!!! So many good recipes that are now my family favourites but you have just reminded me that you still have so many I want to try. Stay healthy my friend xx

    Reply
  3. Jane @ The Shady Baker says

    March 25, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    Thank you Stacey for so many recipes, wow! It is certainly a time for comforting food and all things homely and frugal. Take care. x

    Reply
  4. Linda Claxton says

    July 12, 2020 at 9:53 am

    So much yumminess. Thanks for adding all these to a blog post.

    Reply

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