Quarantine Blues

Hello from the New York City shut down of 2020! It’s pretty quiet in our neighborhood (though we did have a funeral outside our window today), and I think this is supposed to be the crux of the pandemic. We are three weeks into quarantine and there may be three more weeks after this.

On the upside, Rigel and I have been forced into the very thing we lamented we lacked: time to cook. We have been rearranging duties in the kitchen and now have the headspace (and energy) to create a weekly meal plan we can stick to. I’ve almost got it down to two weeks, but I still can’t bring myself to buy that many vegetables, chop them, and freeze them all in one go. What I’m trying to say is I’m too lazy to meal prep, and it’s hard trying to bring home enough groceries for a Bear (him) and a Bunny (me) for two weeks!

Most of my time has been spent working on projects around the house, but I am now at a crossroads. I have done all the small tasks (labelling spice and flour jars, hemming and mending, planning and ordering a windowsill garden, etc.) and now it’s time for the Big Tasks: Cleaning Out the Closet, Repainting the Hallway, Installing a New Bathroom Sink, New Kitchen Countertops, etc. It seems like the list is neverending.

[[We have a dream to feature videos on this blog and we’ve a lot of work to do before we can get this apartment in a good enough place to shoot in. We’ve less than a thousand square feet in our tiny 1904 pad, and most of it is backlit!]]

I’ve got ginger fennel bone broth on the burner, slowly bubbling away. If the recipe turns out, I’ll pop it up on the blog. It’s my own version of this recipe. I’m looking forward to testing out these to-die-for innovative recipes we’ve been creating here at home; researching the planetary qualities of ingredients, sharing my finds with you. Rigel and I are taking part in a 365-day challenge and I decided you would be my challenge. I’ll post every day for a year about the movement of the planets and corresponding ingredients/recipes to utilize their magical powers.

Can’t wait to speak to you tomorrow, on a Moon-day, 4/13! We will talk about lunar foods, what they are and why they’re important to have in your diet, and I’ll share some of my favorite lunar recipes with you. We might even get around to the significance of 4/13 and their numerological meaning!

Peace and light,

C+R