Iveyrock

Before I tell my little story, I want to be very clear that there are a couple of reasons that Ray usually does the cooking around here. One of those is that he is better at it than I am. For everything I cook that turns out well, there are many more efforts that come with “explanations.” I don’t usually make dinner, and most days it never even crosses my mind.

It appears, however, that something about being sick sends my brain into overload, and I spend a day or so using all kinds of energy.

The last time this happened, I took the kids on a long walk to a nearby pond, came home, and made chicken turnovers from scratch. While I waited for my dough to chill, I realized that I felt so odd because I had a low grade fever.

Yesterday, I was inspired to clean my (neglected) kitchen, and make dinner. Not only dinner, but dinner with an appetizer. I have a basket of tomatoes from our garden that need to be used, and a great (and easy) french bread recipe. (As a side note, did you all catch that? Extra tomatoes from our garden! Not only are they actually growing, they are making more than we can eat. Amazing!)

So I decided that not only was I going to get the kitchen completely clean, I was going to make bruschetta. I found some recipes online, but none of them looked exactly like what I wanted – so while I was waiting for the kids’ lunch to cook, I just started chopping.

I made lunch, started in on the kitchen, started bread dough going – and realized that I felt awfully strange. Sure enough, another low grade fever.

Both my chicken turnovers and my bruschetta turned out better than I had hoped they would. Dinner last night was spaghetti and bruschetta – eaten in a clean kitchen. I am vaguely wondering what would happen if I got really sick… maybe I could whip up a five course meal. At any rate, I need to do something with the rest of these tomatoes.

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