10/19/2022
It’s been a minute since I did a food post! Last week, a neighbor stole my monthly meat CSA *and* my Blue Apron box also went mysteriously missing. Now, I’m really grateful that I was able to get refunds/credits, and I hope folks that took my food were folks that needed it more than me any will enjoy it, but I felt really down in the dumps about it. I use those services to help minimize the amount of executive function I expend on food for myself, so I was dreading having to come up with meals for myself. (Plus, it’s disappointing to be unable to trust your neighbors!)
In posting about my frustration, a kind acquaintance I’ve only met once but with whom I have significant social overlap offered to share some food with me. He said that he, like me, often struggles to cook in small batches and would be happy to share a portion or two of something with me to help ease my mental load. Because of all the work I’ve done in therapy over the years, I said I’d really appreciate that and thanked him profusely.
Y’all. YALL. He made crab cakes and Old Bay roasted potatoes and roasted carrots that were SO GOOD I ate them with my HANDS while driving home. I had the presence of mind, though, to save one crab cake…for this. Not only did his generosity save me the cognitive effort of preparing a meal for myself, not only was it *delicious,* but it made me willing and somewhat enthusiastic to make myself something really tasty, with more effort than I’ve wanted to put in on my own behalf for a while.
What an amazingly kind thing he did for me, and what awesome food I’ve had in the last 12 hours!
[alt text: three images of a blue grey bowl holding tater tots, a golden brown crab cake, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce on top, garnished with gochugaru chili flakes. In the last picture, the egg has been cut in half to show the jammy orange center.]
