Cooking

Cooking is mundane but I find it a rhythm in my day like a meditative ceremony that calms and centers me. Cooking for myself, family and friends is keeping in touch the natural me, the organic, healthy me. Feeding the total me more than just my body. My cooking is very basic and simple. Just the way I like my life to be.

My question is..Who cooks at least one meal a day?

Cooking is just like any other craft to me, I love it. I thoroughly enjoy cooking and baking from scratch. Honestly, it's one of the larger reasons I want to be a stay-at-home mom is so I can cook from scratch more often.

On average, yeah I cook at least one meal a day. But I will say there are days where we're both too tired to cook so we just grab something on the way home haha.

I cook all my meals except the occasional treat meal, well I do the weekdays and she does the weekends to mix it up (hers is better then mine). What we eat and drink is right up there with the most important and impactful things we can do to our body. A way to not spend all day in the kitchen is to make lunches on weekends, and freeze them. This way you can just reheat or defrost prior so the day can be clear of interruptions... leaving cooking only to first and last thing of the day.

I love cooking! Although I am no chef I think I am one of the best sous chefs around lol. My wife is the true master. She can take a bunch of stuff and throw it together and make awesome things. She also bakes professionally so there's that... I don't have her magic touch but I can follow a recipe and I am a good support system for her amazing talent hehe.

For me cooking is a form of meditation and a form of magic. To pick ingredients with intent and transform them into something amazing takes attention to detail, a self awareness and the ability to follow a procedure through to completion. When you're in the zone everything else just falls away and you just naturally exist in the now. You have to or things can go very badly

A way to not spend all day in the kitchen is to make lunches on weekends, and freeze them. This way you can just reheat or defrost prior so the day can be clear of interruptions... leaving cooking only to first and last thing of the day.

How do you feel about this. I feel connection and tuned in to my center. Nothing mystic just good.

For me cooking is a form of meditation and a form of magic. To pick ingredients with intent and transform them into something amazing takes attention to detail, a self awareness and the ability to follow a procedure through to completion. When you're in the zone everything else just falls away and you just naturally exist in the now.

This is a beautiful statement. I felt the words but couldn't find them in me to post them. You are good.

Rickie wrote:

A way to not spend all day in the kitchen is to make lunches on weekends, and freeze them. This way you can just reheat or defrost prior so the day can be clear of interruptions... leaving cooking only to first and last thing of the day.

How do you feel about this. I feel connection and tuned in to my center. Nothing mystic just good.

Me personally. I tend to exert precision to avoid too much random association to activities... so dealing with meat is like that, as I don't really want to pretend the animal's death was anything other then stealing its life to nourish my ongoing existence. Plant's and plant matter I view more of a resource, so these are 'experimented' with quite liberally to explore taste and health impacts of various preparations. I find I don't have to mysticize eating as I get enough feedback from my body about the differences in food to work with, without having to exert that extra imaginative or spiritual effort. Generally speaking then, the precision and measurement involved applies my mind into a relationship with my hunger, so that is sort of interesting to use that instinct to drive mechanical and logical effort... and of course important rewarding (taste and healthy) if successful.

Me personally. I tend to exert precision to avoid too much random association to activities... so dealing with meat is like that, as I don't really want to pretend the animal's death was anything other then stealing its life to nourish my ongoing existence. Plant's and plant matter I view more of a resource, so these are 'experimented' with quite liberally to explore taste and health impacts of various preparations. I find I don't have to mysticize eating as I get enough feedback from my body about the differences in food to work with, without having to exert that extra imaginative or spiritual effort. Generally speaking then, the precision and measurement involved applies my mind into a relationship with my hunger, so that is sort of interesting to use that instinct to drive mechanical and logical effort... and of course important rewarding (taste and healthy) if successful.

Interesting and very practical. You don't feel any thing more than just nourishing your body?

So what do you like to cook? Do you cook more than once a day?

I love cooking, trying out as much combinations as i can, i only have meat 2x a week and because i am not a vegetarian i have to find new ways of cooking food and keeping it tastefull , i like to experiment

Rickie wrote: Interesting and very practical. You don't feel any thing more than just nourishing your body?
So what do you like to cook? Do you cook more than once a day?

Food has a range of impacts on the body AFAIK, most obviously it sates appetite!!
Whatever agitates my immune system the least, and I avoid heaps of stuff because of that, but also some things for ethical reasons.
All meals, except special occasions about maybe once or twice a month.

I aint no chef, but its good to experiment. :huh: