I just wanted to apologize that I haven't posted lately. I've been so sick and food is the last thing I want to think about. Gatorade and soda crackers do not really make an interesting entry.

The Fresh Direct (home-delivery grocery service) arrived on my worst sick day, Sunday. Piles and piles of food that I don't even want to look at, let alone prepare. Some of the nonperishables are still sitting on the kitchen table, waiting for me to find a place for them.

Here's my impression so far: The bananas came at the perfect stage of ripeness, that early stage so we had a few days to eat them. The strawberries were not good, which only means that Fresh Direct can't work miracles and produce tasty strawberries in April. The dried fruit was good, moist without being sticky, not too sweet, with the flavor of the fruit intact. The broccolini looks lovely but I haven't cooked it yet (I'm just excited to find it somewhere). I gave my coworker, Julie, a Yonah Schimmel's sweet potato knish I had ordered, so she'll have to report on that.

I think I'm beginning to get my appetite back, finally. I've been bereft without it.