An emphatic "yes" to the question posed by this thread! I've been a keen cook for about 7 years now, but haven't always found regular time for it, between running my own small business and all my other life commitments. Right now, with all this home time, I am powering through 2-4 recipes per day. This week, I've even upgraded my kitchen setup by investing in a fancy bluetooth-enabled Vitamix A2300i blender, plus a KitchenAid mixer (the "Queen of Hearts" centenary edition) and a Cuisinart Elemental food processor.

As a lifelong vegetarian, my cooking obviously focuses on vegetarian and vegan food. For tonight's dinner, I made a slow-cooked onion and apple cider soup served with Gruyère croûtes (using a delicious block of Gruyère which I had brought home from Switzerland).

Other interesting things I've made recently include: "sopa seca" Peruvian pasta bake (in which the pasta is fried, cooked, then baked); choc chip rosemary sea salt cookies; tortilla soup; chocolate pâté topped with toasted fennel seeds and EV olive oil, served with toasted baguette; Sriracha tempeh alfredo pasta. I also enjoy making drinks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic e.g. in the past week, I've made raspberry-basil lemonade; jalapeño lime-ade; sangria; mulled wine.

Tomorrow, I'm going to make horchata (one of my all-time favourite drinks), as well as vegan mac n cheese.

If I can't travel physically...then I will travel through my cooking and eating! On that note, I think that travelling all over the world and trying the best food at every destination - from Michelin-starred fine dining to Italian delis to taco trucks - has been the very best culinary education that I could have ever asked for. Whenever I cook at home, I think back to all of those amazing flavours and I try to hold myself to those standards.