In my last post, I reflected on my fear-based shopping and hoarding practices due to the pandemic. Over the last ten years, I have increased and diversified the types of indigenous ingredients I keep in my pantry. Sadly, my hoarding also included all my revered specialty ingredients as well. I realized that I needed to do some letting go by way of respecting the ingredients. I needed them to be used, utilized, and to allow them to realize their purpose: to be eaten and to nou

This was not a post I had planned to write. I realized recently, after trying to work up the energy to create and test out another recipe, that I have writer's block, or kitchen block, as it were. My kitchen, my crazy pandemic kitchen, is finally coming back center. It had become overflowing without purpose. This is not who I am or was. As I look at my pantry, I see two very different stories being told. One story shows where I was at the beginning of the pandemic: someone fu