State of the Kitchen: Coronavirus & Chronic illness

This is a scary time for many. For me, I know that I will probably die if I get the Coronavirus, to show how I feel about that fact, I wonder why Coronavirus is one single word. Shouldn’t it be two words? Whatever, I’ll just go with whatever wierd spelling they have (see what I did there with the spelling of weird? Aren’t I clever?).

But I am in many of the risk categories, I have diabetes, I have a chronic illness (unknown at this point), I have heart failure, and I often have a hard time breathing (air hunger). The only boxes I don’t tick for Danger Will Robinson is I’m not over 60.

I’m not afraid of getting it because I’m not really afraid of dying. I know that people say I should be, but I’m not. I liken it to the Three Brothers story from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I’ve embedded the video below, but the gist that relates to my philosophy is a guy who gets an invisibility cloak that hides him from death. He gets really old and passes it down to his child. And I want to go out like this quote when I do go, whether that is now or a long time from now.

“He then greeted death as an old friend. And went with him gladly, departing this life as equals.”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Film

So many people are afraid of death, but I think we should celebrate it, make it less scary and terrifying. Look at how death is portrayed in most films and most of the time, it’s generally terrifying: think Final Destination. Now that I have looked at it and actually watched a few videos, I can’t back that up with statistics because there are some amazing versions of death: from funny in Bill & Ted’s Adventure, to mysteriously creepy in The Last Action Hero, to Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black. There are good versions, but I still feel like it is usually portrayed as terrifying.

What I cooked this week.

Morbidity, I guess that’s the theme of this week. So, I cooked one thing this week, and it didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped. I had some canned spaghetti sauce that is as bland as bland can be, so I added some chicken, curry, and peanut butter to it and served it over noodles. I am not sure I got the ratio of sauce to noodles right or if it just needed more time, but it wasn’t all that great. But it has promise, so I am going to keep working on it.