Images from The Isolation Cafe

Let's face it, there will come a time where we realize we either have COVID-19 in some (hopefully mild) form or must have had it. The goal is less about stopping everyone from getting it and more about stopping the most vulnerable from getting it or delaying the intensity of the outbreak, so healthcare is available to those who actually need it. IE Spreading out the cases over more time.

There is no cure and treatment comes in the form of making sure a person is in the best place they can be to ride it out and fight it off.

So it makes the most sense to me to keep the ol' body in good working order just in case it's called upon to fight hard... to fight a viral infection like breathing and survival depends on it. Because it might!

These are my goals:

1. Eat well

2. Sleep well

3. Exercise

4. Reduce stress

5. Avoid infection for as long as possible

The Isolation Cafe helps with 4 of the 5. I'll have to take care of the exercise with a different approach, obviously.

We had this meal a couple of nights this week. Ribeye with sauteed onions. Baked purple potatoes, parsnips, carrot. Roasted Brussels sprouts.

Below; Slices of eggplant being "sweated" in preparation for eggplant Parmesan later.

Check out the beeswax food covers my sister bought me for Christmas in New Zealand, a couple of months ago. We love that it saves us from using plastic wrap! My set of covers are awesome blues and florals that I just adore.

The finished product...

Eggplant Parmesan with garlic toast

Homemade bread goes stale much quicker than store-bought.  It's perfect for French toast.

At some point recently, Mark heard that lobster fisherman were suffering too. And that lobster was a good deal cheaper right now. A week later a cooler with dry ice inside was found on our doorstep. You can guess what was chillin' inside!

A part of me feels guilty about the good life, the ample opportunities that we have and the frickin' menu's that are bringing us joy. We are grateful for the motivation to be more creative in the kitchen. That's why I'm slipping a record of this event into an older post. The intent is to be able to look back honestly at our life... but not to gloat about it or even really to attract new readers with this post.

Seriously.. this is the first lobster omelette I've ever eaten!

 AND the first lobster rolls since I left the northeast 15 years ago.

Some days, when you wish you could visit the local restaurant serving Indian, Thai, or Italian fusion cuisine, the only thing to be done is cooking it yourself. This week we have nibbled on Italian, Russian, Indian and French food, fresh from our own kitchen. Even though we'd rather be supporting local businesses, we are grateful for all that we are capable at home too. Comfort food.