January…

Is anyone else finding this week difficult? On a scale of 1 to 10, I’m feeling a very sub par 4 to 5, I’m doing all the stuff I need to do but with less enthusiasm than I managed last week. It could be the weather, it’s got much colder around here, it could be PMT, it could be the sore throat I seem to have, it could be SAD. It could be a combination of all of it and January too…

Whatever it is, all I really want to do is sleep and maybe read. The last thing I want to do is cook and all creativity in the kitchen runs away. So I haven’t tried any new recipes, I haven’t cooked anything interesting, and nothing I’ve eaten has been remotely worth photographing or talking about here.

At the beginning of the year I had this idea that I would write about food and maybe a recipe every Wednesday and here I am failing on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Actually though I think that’s ok, it’s the 3rd week of January, payday is a while away and everyone I know is looking at the bank account and thinking either that it’s going to be tight until payday or that they need to go and talk to the bank.

It’s difficult when it’s dark and cold and money is tight to summon up any enthusiasm for food or cooking. So I thought I’d link to the recipes that I default to when cooking and feeding myself feels like a chore. All of them are comforting to eat and easy to make and apart from the frittata, freeze well.

Vegan Bean Beer Stew