It takes a village!

END OF PART 1 For many of us who had planned our lockdown grocery shopping, we would be reaching the leftovers  stage right about now. We've cooked and baked, fried and braaied. Learnt how to sauté, flambé and other fancy french terms.  Yes, we could make it on Masterchef or so we thought we wanted.  Turns out this cooking for a living gig is not for everyone. Coming up with innovative ways to serve basic foods is an  exhausting and thankless job.  You've just served your masterpiece which was scoffed down in under 10 min. "That was great, mum.  What's for supper?"  Aaarg!  One of the big lessons for most of us during this lockdown should be that we, households waste a mountain of food. For example, food that needs to go into the bin, gets a special place in my freezer.  I hate maggots in my bin.  So come Bin Pickup Day, I take out my frozen heap of food waste, dump the unrecognizable blob into the black bag and leave it ...