Did I hear that right?

Did you say you can’t cook?

Nonsense!  If you can read - you can cook!  It’s that simple. Of course if you are a beginner cook I wouldn’t recommend starting the cover recipe from Bon Appétit, but start small with a recipe with 4 to 9 ingredients.  Then read and follow the instructions – that simple!  Yes – it doesn’t always come out perfectly, but you’ll learn something and make it better next time.

Cooking is one of my ways of showing love to my family.  First it is much more nutritious to make a homemade meal than to serve a frozen TV dinner.  Those are fine once in a while if you are pressed for time.  But the high salt and chemical content in frozen dinners (over processed food) is not recommended for regular use.

I get in the kitchen and put on some good music, crack open the cookbook and all of a sudden I am totally relaxed.  I am in the cooking zone – I am not thinking about laundry or bills or yard work, I am totally into the sights and smells and textures of the food.  First they are all separate, and then slowly it comes together, add some heat and before you know it your family is sitting down to a home cooked meal made of love.  And yes sometimes a dinner that I will make for a special Sunday dinner will be elaborate and take a good hour or so to make it – and then it’s all gobbled up in all of ten minutes….but it is so worth it, the taste of home cooked food, the joy of talking together as a family, and knowing they are eating healthy is worth the effort any time!

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