“You know what you think. “
This is how Dr. Benjamin Spock begins his e-book on caring for babies and children, a welcome sign of acceptance as true for any parent concerned about how to proceed, which is it.
Did that fool ever try to cook?
This is the corollary of my kitchen: you don’t know as much as you think.
The smart thing is that it doesn’t matter, any of the statements can take you to the same place, which is a kind of satisfaction, and if there’s one thing we can use right now, in the midst of an unprecedented era, it’s this one.
I tried, while I spent so much time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, if not to be accurately informed about how to cook, at least to be informed about how to cook more things. This has rarely been frustrating but especially cathartic. If I can prepare an important course, some accompaniments and prepare them for anything that looks like the same time, then I’ve completed anything.
And achieving anything has never been more important.
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It’s the little things right now. There’s a lot of wonderful things out there, just outside, in the kitchen. Cooking dinner doesn’t make them disappear, but for me, it takes them away, at least for a while. Maybe for you, it’s gardening. It seemed that everyone and their neighbor were making sourdough bread there for a while (and posting photos of their creations on social media). Remember the oh-it-isn-‘ta-rat-of-the-quai-it-is- In-fact-a-cake-once you’ve cut it?Some others have built chicken coops, a physical manifestation of secular consultation (plus the other: breakfast or dinner?).
Yes, I didn’t do any of that.
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The restaurants closed, going to the grocery store to buy materials suddenly felt like an espionage project and everyone had to locate themselves in their own way. For me, it doesn’t look like Instagram’s newest offer (at least not always). frankly, preparing dinner. Family to feed and all that. But it’s also about finding an escape by doing so.
So, for me, it’s seasoning a plate of bird wings to perfection: an accidental combination of fried fish sauces and buffalo has resulted in what my kids call ‘barfalo’, which is less appetizing than you know, and cook them until the skin is crisp but not burnt.
I plan to do this someday. The goal, your escape, is to try.
No, I don’t take classes, and although I keep persevering with sticking to recipes the first time I check something, then I’m flexible, which is another way of saying if I don’t have an element. I’m going to pretend This is more a travel offer is the reward.
Remember, when I walked into this, I cut a slice of Bologna to make it look like a dollar of sand so I wouldn’t bubble it when I fry it up to the kitchen (actually, I still do. Fried Bologna is great). I once made pumpkin cakes for Thanksgiving with friends and didn’t notice until they were sliced that I had left the paper waxed somewhere.
In cakes.
However, the other night I made vodka sauce from scratch and cooked it with pasta for my family. It’s hard enough to be complicated but not so complicated if you pay attention to it and, you know, vodka is there while I cook, then.
I made so many vegetables on a plate that I’m not in good health, but there’s something as satisfying about chopping courgettes and onions, tomatoes and broccoli and all that and pouring them into oil and seasoning (the adage used twice as much garlic as expected is true) and put them in the oven for a while (actually, it’s not the hardest thing in the world) and make other people eat besides me.
Well, everyone’s done it at this point, too.
I’m overreacting. I am aware that many other people prepare delicious meals without even trying. My kids cook delicious meals without trying. They’re adventurers that way and I adapt more and more.
Which goes back to Dr. Spock, more or less. No matter how ignorant you are in the kitchen, it turns out to me that the most you can do is move on. Try it and see what happens. This slow-cooked red meat is not going to crumble.
In addition, unlike all topics related to parenting, what is at stake is low. On the one hand, when you cook, you raise a small human being. You’re making dinner. A little less pressure, I can say from experience.
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But no pressure. If you have to prepare a meal that night, there’s certainly pressure.
It’s fun.
Every day, like many of us, I scroll through online news and my Twitter account and see a world on fire, figuratively and literally lately. My paintings require me to be aware of all this, among other things, and consistency All of this can be daunting. In the meantime, like so many others, I commit to making decisions for my circle of family members and me that protect us all while keeping us sane. It’s never been harder. This kind of tension is not a laugh at all.
So I cook, anything I can enjoy without having to be smart about it. Maybe Dr. Spock and I are right. I don’t know much about cooking. But I know what I don’t know, and that suits me.
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