Time well spent
The last time I wrote about Niçoise salad, life was pretty different around here. I thought many times of returning to this space the last few years. I did a lot of cooking, but it was different. To be honest, some days the planning of meals felt like a burden. Other days, I'd feel inspired again, wake up hungry as always, thinking of what to make. During initial 'lockdown,' being in the kitchen was comforting in many ways; the prepping, the chopping, even the dishes afterwards. There was solace in the most quotidian tasks, punctuating each day, however gently. Still, it was a difficult time, all the sameness, and the horrible news, the days and weeks blurring together. Not wanting to spread Covid to my family, I was extra careful, barely going out. I worried about getting a second chronic illness on top of the one I already have. Back in January of 2020 I just started beauty school, and by March the school had shut down, the whole city too, and none of us knew what was go
