At the beginning, last spring, someone in my neighborhood posted on a local site that she was giving away free sourdough starter. I took a jar of it and I made several great sourdough loaves. It wasn’t something I really got into, as others did on FB sourdough group pages, where they posted minute details, but I liked what I made.
I got into a YouTube thing from chef Alton Brown, called “Quarantine Quitchen” where he would video a weekly show with his wife, mostly from their Atlanta loft apartment. Very casual, unscripted, they’d cook and make drinks and chat. It was kind of like you’re hanging out with them, kind of fun, kind of quirky, and an insight into the private life of someone famous. It’s still going, and it’s now called “QQ” because we’re not actually quarantining. Sometimes they film from their NYC apartment, which is not as spacious and therefore not as visually appealing, but it’s the same show. They have dogs too which are always fun.
I stopped using a Keurig for my daily coffee and now have a grinder and a regular coffee maker. I’m no connoisseur but I like the freshly ground better than the Keurig, which would get clogged and the coffee wasn’t that hot, temperature-wise, which was my main complaint.
Last summer, with way more free time than any summer previously, we spent more time on the lake that we live on. I expect this summer to be more of the same. Every other summer I’ve been commuting and dealing with picking up my daughter from camp and it was always rush, rush, rush. Last summer, so nice to slow down and enjoy the beautiful area we live in, a rural area about an hour north of NYC. We took day trips with my daughter’s friends and their mom, and we did a lot of exploring around CT and NY.