After not really cooking for, oh, 35 years -- 3 weeks without break of cooking every night was a bit rough. It takes a great deal more mental energy for me to prepare a meal than it does for folks who have been doing it for ages. Admittedly, I was pining for a drive-thru by week's end as I stared at the Spaghetti Squash on my counter and wondered what, in the name of all that is vaguely food-like, to do with it. Seriously. Total bachelor moment. I must have stood there staring at it with a deeply furrowed brow for a good twenty minutes.