Recipes-not-recipes #21

If you have rice, you have a meal.

I’m writing this hungrily, sipping on a mezcal and cucumber soda, candles burning, chicken salted, Grey’s Anatomy on. I’m thinking about tomorrow’s newsletter – about whether to trust your body, about whether rest is always the best thing, about being tired – not of life, but just tired – and whether we’re internalising self-care in a dangerous way. Anyway: if you have rice you have a meal. It’s a simple fact that I’ve learned since I was a kid. Use up your leftovers, dig into the fridge and the cupboard for the essentials. I make sure I always have kimchi, some sort of root veg, various aliums (onions/leeks/garlic), eggs and a dark leafy green.