What are you cooking when no one is looking? The art of cooking is perhaps the oldest form of art (and it is delightfully edible). I am currently staying with a friend as I wait for a few things to fall into place, before I hope to move on. Last night my friend asked me to look for a movie we could watch. I am not a movie “connoisseur”, but I decided to do a Google search: Food movies. We discovered the movie “Chef” (2014) and we enjoyed this light-hearted movie (bad language here and there beware) after supper. However, the movie made us feel like eating again. (I killed an orange in the process.) I will not spoil the movie for you; watch it and enjoy it too.
Well-cooked food and carefully styled food photographs will surely stop us in our tracks. Sometimes we feel “confused” and “rattled”. Why don’t we “stop the show” during those miserable hours – if we can – and gather the utensils and ingredients and simply bake a cake? Please use a recipe that uses vanilla essence! If you ever feel lonely, simply open a little bottle of (liquid) vanilla essence and “sniff” it. It will make you feel at home. After we had taken the cake out the oven, we can invite a few friends. (It may be easier after the Covid-19 saga.) If you don’t like baking, then cook a simple meal and dress it up, you are the “chef”.
Shauna Niequist says, “I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.” May we find the right recipe to make today a great day. I included an acrylic on board still life I made more than 12 years ago. It looks a little like “baking”.
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