Good evening my Corona friends and I hope this finds everyone well and covid free as we are experiencing a spike. Apparently, we will see what kind of super spreader will be forthcoming from our Holiday celebrations. I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and once again we are adjusting to that “new freaking normal” with smaller tables and Zoom family visits. It is getting harder and harder to be upbeat through these trying times. Not being able to celebrate Thanksgiving with all those you are accustomed to, really pisses me off. It happens to be our favorite Holiday, just for the pure joy of eating, and not be associated with any religious ceremony, but apparently, we are beginning to recognize that it may not be a celebration for all. Like all things in 2020 this may be the year for change and do what we have to but just keep it as a day of overeating and recognize our founding fathers were not always the nicest people.

They say the darkest days are coming up in the next several weeks but if you ask me I see the darkest days in the rearview mirror and I can’t wait for 2021. It’s mind-blowing that a quarter of a million people have died this year and people still won’t wear a mask, and I think we should be sure they have an identifying mark on their forehead so when they get sick and need to be admitted to a hospital healthcare workers won’t waste their time or endanger their own health to save them.  Ok, I realize that I am going to a dark place here so enough said about that.

Tonight there was no dinner box and my roommate has decided that he has learned something from all the cooking he has been doing and wants to do his own recipes, in other words, I cooked.  The one thing that I miss most of all from the suburbs is my gas grill out on the deck of the kitchen. I pretty much cooked most meals on it all year long, just unburied it from the snow every once in a while, and good to go.  Tonight grilling some fish for dinner, techie trying to eat healthier, just smells up our one big room. Oh the things you do for love, I miss the outdoor kitchen. Today I drove a half-hour out of the city to visit my favorite grocery store, Sudbury Farms. It was nostalgic. Imagine you can pull right into the parking lot and plenty of spaces, not like Whole Foods in the south end of Boston where you have to jockey for position just to get in line on the street to be granted a spot. You can enjoy pushing your cart around and don’t have to worry about all those Amazon shoppers dodging you to get those carts filled very fast, it is like an obstacle course sometimes. Especially the days leading up to Thanksgiving they had a lot of orders and they were flying around the store. They would do well on one of those supermarket sweep shows. I never quite got accustomed to knowing where everything was in that store and I just don’t want to develop a relationship with this place, I just can’t get the vibe and no I don’t have an Amazon prime number.  I am one of those wackadoodles who refuses to get a CVS card or a grocery card, as I don’t want them knowing what I am buying. I mean seriously who am I kidding, I look something up on the internet and in minutes I am bombarded with information on the product. This past week my son had me convinced that my phone heard us talking about something and I started getting hits on it and I think I believe him. Anyway, I had a very nice shopping experience and I do like their prepared products so much better, as I am a big fan of Sandra Lee semi-homemade so anything that helps in meal preparation I am all for it.  I did notice a disturbing trend and probably has been around a long while but I just never paid attention to it, but what is with this cauliflower bullshit?  Looking at frozen pizzas they have some with cauliflower crusts, and also cauliflower rice, seriously that ain’t rice, but there it is right in the frozen veggie section. I am still bothered by the idea of the crust made of cauliflower and just would rather not have the pizza if that was my only choice. Anyway, I enjoyed my shopping adventure and realized you can find joy in these outings, as sometimes this is the only place you can go and I make sure they have a clean bathroom.  I just got Ina’s new cookbook comfort food and it is the only non-fiction I like to read, so I am studying it pretty heavily and will work my way up to a recipe soon or maybe Techie, he only reads non-fiction. Anything can happen as there is a full moon …………….

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