Lunch

I'm pretty lazy about lunch. I love food but I don't like cooking and I can never be bothered thinking too hard about what food to make for myself and lunch is the meal for which this manifests most of the time.

Breakfast is easy; I make poached eggs most days.

Tea is easy – usually – because I have the good sense to live with someone who does like to cook, so mostly I don't make tea.

But I get in a rut with lunch. I find something that works and I have it every day – partly because I don't want the trouble of deciding what to eat and partly because if there are only two people in the house and you buy a packet of perishable foodstuffs you have to eat them quickly or they'll go off.

For a while I was making a salad with some grains and some veggies and some chicken. For a while I was having ham on a bagel.

But I had a brilliant idea for soothing winter lunches last year and I've been doing that for the last few months. It is: good noodles.