Food for Dissertating

  I'm combining series again. As inflationary pressures spiral upward with no end in sight, one of the ways I've been keeping my sanity is simply avoiding shopping very often. I changed a lot about how I shop, and that usually means, as of now, just very quick jaunts to a local health food store when I really  need something. Mostly, it has meant stretching out my trips as long as possible. I make a point of not needing things. So this one, aside from my health food shop top ups, was about 6 weeks between trips. I went to the health food store twice in that time, just grabbing the bare minimum, plus chocolate. (You can't not  have chocolate...though I'm also trying to remind myself that the answer to all the world's problems is, in fact, not chocolate.) Avoiding shopping is one way of avoiding the panic. Even so, what we have here is stuff I love! I have misir wat (Ethiopian lentils), Ethiopian vegetable rice, Ethiopian-style kale (it should be collards, but I had w...