My mood during social isolation during the coronavirus epidemic is great one day, motivates me to work and play with the children, but the next day I have to sit on the couch under a blanket with a glass of wine. My children don't let me give in to temptation and hide under the blanket in a bad mood, and wine definitely has to wait until evening. But sometimes I try to improve my mood and with the family I prepare something delicious, colourful and ... best of all with chocolate. Delicious and with chocolate – a brownie of course. And colourful? It is also possible. Just add sugary spring decorations or colourful m&m's. If like me you need to cheer yourself up, make this brownie – it's not much work, you can bake it in no time, and even the aroma will make your day better. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
200g of flour
150g of brown sugar
50g of peanut butter
50g of cocoa
120ml of melted butter
300ml of milk
100g of chocolate drops
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of vanilla essence
a pinch of salt

Recently I realised that it was a long time since I had done risotto. Because the family wanted meat for lunch I did a beautiful sunny risotto with chicken and vegetables. It was wonderful. It was light and filling, meaty and full of vegetables. A full balanced meal. Serve it immediately after cooking with Parmesan or fresh herbs. Remember that saffron gives it a beautiful colour, but don't add too much, because the risotto will be bitter.

Ingredients (for 4 people):
300 g of arborio rice
2 pinches of saffron
1.5l of bouillon
1 courgette
1 red pepper
500g of chicken meat
1 teaspoon of sweet red paprika
half a teaspoon of curry
1 shallot
2 cloves of garlic
2000ml of dry white wine
4 tablespoons of butter
3 tablespoons of parmesan
1 tablespoon of oil
salt and pepper

Mushroom soup is definietly not my children's favourite soup. I love it, so with stubbornness I am stubbornly trying to find a version of this soup so it will tastethat everybody will like. This time I made a good step in the right direction, because my daughter accepted the new mushroom soup. Only mMy son still turns his nose upsniff, but it I will get therecome later... trial and error. I hope that positive ones will be oftenthe results will be positive.

Ingredients (for 4 people)
500g of mushroom
2 carrots
1 parsley root
¼ of a small celery root
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
chili pepper
2 tablespoons of butter
100g of bulgur
200g of small white beans (boiled or from a tin)
400ml of coconut milk
3 twigs of thyme
2 bay leaves
1.5l of vegetable bouillon
salt and pepper