I really want to make a fulll high tea

[tielan]

And then deliver one portion each to my local friends and share tea over a zoom meeting.

Is that weird?

Basically, I want to do ALL THE COOKING RIGHT NOW (but I hate cleaning up) and then share the food, because that's what I usually do, but I can't right now and it's kind of doing my head in.

Maybe I could settle for making scones with jam and cream? or shortbread? I was going to make guava and strawberry jelly sweets; I just haven't gotten arund to it.

Also, I keep hearing people mowing the lawn and now I want to collect grass clippings.

Comments

[grav_ity]

I usually give away all of my baking as well, so eating it has required SO MUCH SCHEDULING and it turns out I...hate that?

You're not weird, basically. Food is for sharing.

[tielan]

It's good to know that others are having the same feelings as I am right now.

Maybe also because a lot of our social culture centres around food and the eating/sharing of.

[bladespark]

Some people are obviously channeling all this into lawn care, because somebody is ALWAYS mowing the lawn if it's not actively pouring down, I swear. Somebody right next to me is mowing the lawn RIGHT NOW.

[tielan]

Yup! Every week, someone is mowing!

It's also extra weird around here, because we were in hard drought for the last couple of years. There was no rain, and therefore nobody's grass grew. And then we got a lot of rain and the sound of lawnmowers filled the air. And now we're just getting a little, but the lawns are still growing and people are bored at home...

[beatrice_otter]

I think that's perfectly reasonable. And with cooked food, there shouldn't be too much risk.

[tielan]

I am really terribly terribly tempted...

[pensnest]

I had a Zoom afternoon tea last Sunday, and it was so nice to see those faces. I actually baked salted caramel brownies for the cake portion, but as I have a *massive* recipe and nobody in the Zoom lives less than 100 miles away, most of them went into the freezer. An opportunity also to get dressed up - in normal life, I'd wear my fascinator, but for this occasion, tiaras were more appropriate.

Perhaps the friends could share the cooking, too? Portions left on doorsteps for the mobile friends to distribute?

I don't usually even bake, but I totally understand the urge.

[rmc28]

I can tell you that as someone who doesn't bake, I would love that!