Comfort food

This has been a crazy few weeks here in my house and back home...news from home requiring us to make rush decisions, kids sick, uncertainty involving the future, arguments, punishments, forgetfulness, disappointment, sadness among other things...

I'm far from family...That fact makes this all worse, but I do believe that God does not give you more than you can handle, and I consider myself to be a strong person who can face adversity head on, but sometimes I get knocked on my butt, and when I'm all alone I turn to comfort food, particularly food from my childhood, traditional foods, Puerto Rican food...a favorite of mine:

Pasteles...Typically a Christmas side dish to go along with some of my other favorites but I had some in my freezer and so I popped 1 (or 2...shhhhh!) in the pot to boil and the smell alone gave me comfort.

This is as close to home as I'm going to be for a while, and oddly I'm comforted by that.

Enjoy the rest of your Thursday!