Eating Alone? Make a Crumble as Self-Care
This simple dessert is the perfect recipe for a solo night in
Admit it — it’s cold, gray, and rainy outside, and you’re sitting on a two-seater sofa by yourself having eaten one portion of a meal for four. After scraping all the salted caramel swirls off the top of a tub of Häagen-Dazs, you half doze in a state of stupor, wondering which show to watch. You flick through the list of your friends on WhatsApp, wondering whether company would be welcome or just a bother. You don’t bother.
Gloomy as that may sound, I think we all need an evening to ourselves once in a while, even if we are suitably attached. The term self-care is bandied about like candy nowadays, and since everyone kept telling me I needed to have some of it, I chose to embrace it fully. Whether on purpose or by accident, I now have a self-care night all by myself every now and again.
As a single lover of food who almost never eats out, cooking plays a huge part in my self-care routine, and when it’s freezing outside, I’ve got a handful of dishes in my arsenal to provide just that.
The humble crumble
Have you ever had a good crumble? It’s a staple English dessert of fruit topped with a flour and butter mixture that’s similar to a cobbler or a crisp in America. It’s the perfect dessert to whip…
