I didn’t feel great today after my migraine but I rallied and went to the Maryland Archives in Annapolis. The plan had been for me and my grant partner to go and make a day of it and get lunch and visit the Paca gardens but it was windy, rainy and chilly. So I went by myself (the quicker option because I didn’t have to drive an extra 20 minutes to pick her up) which wasn’t as fun. The traffic was awful when I left so I had to drive this unhinged way avoiding both tunnels and going on a lot of surface streets.
Luckily the archivists had pulled what we wanted so I spent a couple hours photographing each page of some old cookbooks and other recipe files they had.
I stopped at Graul’s, a local chain of fancier supermarkets, and got a roast beef and Swiss sandwich for me and macaroni salad and coleslaw for dinner.
I ate some of the sandwich before I left but it was so dry! I didn’t find the mustard packet until I got home. Anyway, coming home was a lot faster since at least the 95 tunnel was cleared. Someone did tailgate me. Like I’m driving a 19 year old car with a Joy of Cooking bumper sticker, go around me!
I made some horseradish mayo and slathered it on the sandwich and finished it. Much better!
Matt put up a corned beef while I was gone so we could have sandwiches for dinner and not have to go around in circles about it.
He also picked up our Easter candy! I’m excited, it’s a long family tradition to get candy from this same place every holiday and on Easter they have chocolate eggs in flavors they only have at Easter. Like “sherbet” which is chocolate and vanilla swirl. Can’t wait until Easter.
I laid in a dark room for a while then I went to check on the meat at dinner time and it wasn’t ready. Luckily it was done like an hour later because I was not in the mood to find an alternative.
I think the worst thing about this part of the pandemic (besides people pretending it’s over) is that life is back to normal enough we have to do things in public which takes up time but we aren’t doing things that made our lives easier like eating in restaurants. It was almost easier just to be home all the time and make all the meals. Now everything requires so much planning.
Rachel Eats Dinner 