What Possesed Me To Do This

I spent the last five days in the South visiting family, who did not allow me to do anything in the kitchen other than pour Coca-Cola into glasses. My aunt has a Costco membership, and she buys mass quantities of fruit there on a regular basis. For whatever reason, the Costco in my neck of the woods has some of the most vile produce you can buy in the U.S.

The fare at this aunt's house is I guess what you could call Southern Fusion. She incorporates Southern-style cooking with just about everything she goods, and it's awesome. Angel Biscuits with English-style potato soup and a side of my great-grandmother's caramelized pear recipe...sigh.

I got back into my cold, upper-Midwestern state two hours ago, and I am hungry. We didn't go shopping last weekend knowing that we would be gone. We drove, which was Hell. My ankles are swollen and nasty looking, despite all of the breaks to walk around and such.

Oh yeah, that brings me to the point: I've had wicked joint pain for seven months now for reasons that seem to only can be explained by autoimmune. And by joint I mean fingers, thumbs, wrists, elbows, knees on joint line, ankles, and toes. The pain isn't well-controlled at the moment, which is another post entirely...

Anyway, my ability to do cool stuff like laundry and cook real food is limited. Maybe my tolerance for looking up tips on autoimmune living is too limited to find anything I would like to know, but there is a lot of "Fight the disorder!" cheerleader stuff and I'm not at a point where I feel it would be helpful. Not so cheerleaderish - I actively work on keeping my thoughts on life existential versus suicidal and nihilistic. It's been a process that started ten years ago, prior to all of this pain business.

At the moment, I want food how-to information. I know there's a cook out there with Rheumatoid Arthritis who has some books, but I'm too tired to do her stuff, man. Plus I don't eat meat.

As I find and figure out things, I will be posting. Non-food tips may be included as well if they seem interesting.

Off to raid the cupboards...