Hopefully another baby boom won’t come out of this lockdown, but certainly many reinventions of old recipes will!  Case in point–E tweaked her famous savory Italian pie into a new, improved version yesterday.  I can’t reveal all the secret ingredients, but not to worry–we haven’t resorted to road kill or soylent green–yet!  Actually, it was excellent as well as creative.

At the store the other day, I noticed the dry beans and rice section was almost wiped out, which indicates that people are having to relearn how to cook more cheaply and healthfully from scratch, after having gone through all the convenience foods.  Just another way this misfortune could have an upside.  Imagine, spoiled Americans having to learn to cook the way developing nations (or poor Americans) have been doing for millennia.  Speaking of rice and beans, I feel a Mexican meal coming on.

Meanwhile, the boss (Misu) has been creatively rediscovering more elevated lairs during her permanent lockdown.  Here she is looking down upon me from the printer paper box up on the file cabinet.  She has made a very amiable, if ornery, cellmate.

Last night we got almost an inch of rain, but fortunately not the violent tornadoes, hail, and t-storms that the deeper south got slammed with, a repeat of Easter Sunday.  This time the storm front mostly missed TN altogether.  Today it’s a beautiful spring day, with veggies popping up all over, and more to be planted in the next few days.  More on that later.