What's Important?

THE  TABLE HAS BEEN EMPTY
The first dinner after "lockdown" was at this very sparse table, with a favourite cousin; three of us still social distancing at a table opened up for eight.  Fortunately, all three of us are quite vocal.

We're beginning to see normal again in Australia (at least), while aware that stillness and solitude continue for friends and relatives in America, France, Britain and Denmark. 

I've taken up the keyboard again, at last. For many months, as well as suffering from a general numbness, it seemed irrelevant to talk about, even with a wry smile, the placing of cheese on a plate, getting children to eat their greens and holding their cutlery "correctly" , the trials of feeding the sour dough starter.

But I continue to obsess, to cringe, to observe and to be moved.  I'll be working on...

• How thick is soup?
• The pizza & pineapple dilemma.
• Rinse before loading the dishwasher?
• Food waste.
• My new BFF - Fran Lebowitz.
• Wellness, health and guilty pleasures. (What is a probiotic?)
• Guests - the good, the bad and the ugly.
• Hosts - the good, the bad and the ugly.
• Cooking citrus peel.
• Recipes and ingredient substitutions

What might you like to talk about?  Join in at the faint blue comment below.
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