try a little tenderness q+a

...wildly tender, and whimsical, talkative (plus a grocery list! and a list of meals!)

i started daydreaming about beautiful meals i wanted to eat because i haven’t been cooking very much lately. i thought about what flavors sounded good to me and ingredients i missed because i haven’t cooked with them in a long time. i used to write out lists of beautiful things i wanted to eat when i was going through spells of very little appetite as encouragement to eat well, even if it was difficult.

cooking for one has been a transition because a part of me feels very content eating half a jar of tonnino tuna filets in olive oil and water crackers with a squeeze of lemon. not because i don’t believe i, alone, am worth a beautiful meal but rather because i feel quite lazy and i know that i can make myself something enjoyable even if it’s small and very simple.

so i daydreamed.