27 days with no microwave, no oven and 3 working hot plates

Capsicum Stuff with Mushrooms and Fried Capsicum Ring.

In January we officially moved to London and house sat for Helen and Adrian while they went on holidays for a month. We had no jobs, the money was dwindling away quickly and it was time for us to snap out of holiday mode and find some jobs, and somewhere to live by the time they came back.

It was apparent very quickly, after eating out and ordering delicious food from market stalls across South East Asia every day for the past 3 months, that every meal we ate from now we had to cook at home and save our money.

So that is where my inspiration for cooking "most" nights came from. The best part about it was, we had no microwave,  no oven, and 3 hot plates. Add to that  I think in my life I had the reputation of  4 dishes and they where all Italian and had similar ingredients. The types of food and culinary delight and exotic flavours I had tasted was a different story. I didn't know how to recreate them. Plus I am a Cadorin, we don't follow instructions.. till it's broken or we have fkd it up..

Cooked this in a small pot with water. 

In our time there, I cooked a huge array of dishes, sadly I don't have pictures of all of them.
But I do have 2 of my favourites.

Stuffed Capsicum filled with mushrooms, herbs and spices lemon juice and all sorts of flavouring I found in the cupboard. I cooked this with 2 sauce pans closed over each other like a DIY oven to cook the capsicum, so it was almost grilled.

My other favourite, which I wish I had the picture of it cooking! We went to Tesco and got really excited as we found a Turkey roast for Sunday night dinner (marked on sale of course) We got home, and went sh!t, how the hell are we going to cook this? A little bit of creativity, I seared the sides in a frying pan, put some water with vegetable stock and mixed herbs and spices in  pot and cooked it with the lid on for  a few hours. It was pretty darn good in the end, the plating doesn't do it justice.