Months later, we dont yet inhabit a world that feels safe or normal.
During a time ofunforeseen crises in food and housing insecurity, this privilege alone deserves my deepest gratitude.
These moments of normalcy are rooted in the physical act of meal preparation.

Moving my hands in these familiar ways surfaces memories of doing so before.
When I prepare the eggplant, bacon & tomato fusilli recipe fromMr.
It doesnt hurt that Ive also gone back to meal planning to keep things feeling stable.

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In pre-pandemic times, eating with a picky toddlerand juggling both of our busy scheduleshad made meal prep difficult.
But quarantine seemed like the perfect time to start incorporating some kind of regularity to our eating.
Ive found myself seeking similar novelty from my dinner recipes.

But novelty can be found even in the familiar.
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