I’m curious about your eating habits. I really want to know if you have a favorite stand by food that you have depended on during this unfortunate incarceration. Please tell me what it is. I find that I can no longer depend upon my tried and true recipes because I will have missing ingredients.

Pear Salad Saga. If you grew up in Forest, you know what I’m talking about. I have eaten it all my life..lolol..but...for some reason, I have rarely added that dish to any meal I personally prepared. I don’t know why not; it’s easy; it’s delicious; ingredients easy to keep on hand. Recently, I saw an article somewhere featuring old fashioned pear salad, and I started craving it. I went to my pantry. Found a can of pear halves. I had cheese and mayo. Wow. That was the best pear salad ever. Maybe it was so good because it brought back feelings of tradition and security that gathered around those tables where pear salad was served so many years ago. So I wanted more of that.
But not to be! That was my last can of pear halves. When I sent daughter Kim to Kroger to get a few more cans...the shelves for pear halves were bare. I halfway understand the toilet paper....but PEAR HALVES?! I started my search online. Amazon had 3 cans left. “Order soon limited supply” it said. At a cost of 9.00 each. What? I don’t think so. I’ll just order from Costco. “Limited supply.!” Guess most people want that feeling of comfort that old fashioned pear salad brings. Honestly, I didn’t know that many people even knew about pear salad...like boiled peanuts and Nabs. It’s a Southern thing.

So that makes me so curious to know if you have developed strange cravings or perhaps created unique substitutions while we are cooking and eating more at home.