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My partner will be away for a few days this week, and I always meticulously plan for these days: what I'll do with the extra time (project work, musical practice, writing, maybe zine-making this time), but also what I'll eat. Once you're in a long-term relationship, you become intimately familiar with the things that people will and won't eat. When I was living apart from her for a year a couple of decades ago, I had a bunch of go-to cheap comfort foods, because I was broke as hell, spending $30/week on food. I'd cook things like chili, or shepherd's pie, or do roast beef if there was a cut on deep discount. Easy to put together and make, serves lots of portions.
She definitely doesn't like most of these (we do a wicked roast beef together), and also seafood in just about any form. I cook for us, and because it's easier to cook for two than cook two separate meals, most of these are never in our rotation. I'll sometimes make them for myself, particularly for lunch (a pot of chili and a pot of white rice goes all week), but not often. And so her annual work trips become a way for me to reconnect with food that I love, but generally don't get to eat.
These trips were curtailed for a long time because of COVID, and the logistics she has to manage; I think the first real one since 2019. I go grocery shopping in a few days. Time to think of what to have this time. Salmon with lemon and butter, dill rice, a caesar salad? Shepherd's pie? We'll see.