Blogging is hard. It's hard to judge what people will find interesting and absolutely inane. Often the line between the two is rather thin, and distorted at the edges.
Cooking on the other hand, is relatively simple, in my opinion. There isn't much you can do to render a meal un-salvageable or inedible. At the end, your hard work is generally proportional to how tasty your meal is. It's a nice payoff, and as living organisms that require a daily influx of calories, quite necessary.
A friend shared this quote from The World According to Garp, which says:
'If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.'
It's seldom that you find a quote that well encapsulates so many facets of your present life, but this one works quite well for me. I'm definitely keeping this one handy. Kudos, AH.
Per grandparents:
ReplyDeleteFlavor meat first and put an egg in it. This will keep moist without losing water. Then add veggies. Presumably, we should know what properly flavored meat smells like. :P
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