Our Social-Distance Meals

The larder, today: bottom to top--that turquoise envelope can be added to two and a fourth cups of rice to make six servings of coconut rice--three of which can be frozen. Next shelf: you can never have too many cans of chick peas. Or chicken broth. Moving up: coconut milk and tomato-sauce collection. Olives. Honey. The rest is mostly beans and sauces--as many as we could think of. Coriander. Various pestos. Mustard. Sunflower seeds. Rice, Soy sauce. Cous-cous, bulgur. Scottish oat cakes. Eggplant, crackers, falafel. Soups. The noodles and the rest of the rice take up another cabinet. Hungry yet? We wish we could ask people over. We froze lentil stew, too.

Enough variety?

No matter how well we eat--at the moment we're eating very well--we all miss dinner parties and impromptu visits. Back on the fifteenth, we held our very last dinner party. A pleasant memory, and as of today, all of us still feel healthy. Instead of company, instead of conversation, we have Grey's Anatomy. Walks, keeping our massive distances. Naps. Books to escape the situation, books to put is in the middle of it. We are all alone together.