What is it about cooking? Cooking is both my creativity and my stress relief. It's my way of being productive (but also my way of procrastinating!). When nothing else is going well, I can at least make a great dish. When I want to shut out other thoughts, I can clear my head while going through the rhythmic motions associated with cooking - chop, slice, dice, repeat. When I don't feel a sense of order in my life, I can have control and order while cooking, when ingredients, flavors and spices come together in harmony. When I feel unbalanced, I can feel centered while I hover over a pot, watching, stirring, smelling, tasting... and taking deep breaths along the way. When I feel the need to create something, to work with my hands, I cook to bring ingredients together and make a dish come to life. It's what I do to nurture myself and others. Cooking can be a solitary enjoyment, or it can bring people together. It's what I do to celebrate, whether dining solo, or in the company of family and friends.
I came across this ad in a magazine, cut it out, and stuck it on my refrigerator door:
In my kitchen
I preheat a memory
I fold old friends with new
I bake a good laugh.
What a perfect way to describe how I feel about food, the kitchen, and all things culinary.
3 comments:
Hahaha! This is a classic Gatmaitan-Javier thing.
I was just joking with a friend a few days ago that we would rather clean the bathroom or the entire house five times than cook! Hahaha.
Kami naman "cleaning therapy"
HUGS!
cyberlaundry: Great! Let's be roommates then. We can easily divvy up the chores :)
In the western world, the most basic and most practiced yoga is Hatha yoga. The Hatha yoga originates from the Asian country India for more than two thousand years back. Yoga helps to purify mind as well as soul, its fills a wisdom of calmness and helps maintaining strength and litheness in the human body. Hatha is derived from two words HA meaning the sun and THA refers to the moon. The Hatha yoga defines how opposite things can effort as one in human life due to the duality and flexibility of our minds and body. Hatha yoga helps to discover the dualities of meditation and workouts. Hathayoga
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