Hello lovely Lilypad followers!
As my missive details indicate ( I abhor the term BLOG ) this musing will be about cooking. I have been learning to cook at age 33 with the help of a few friends and a cookbook or five, but mostly trial and error is my best friend. The first thing was realizing, Cooking is not HARD. Thinking it's hard has hindered me all these years and it is a valuable lesson to realize that NOTHING is as hard as it first seems, and most things are actually much easier than they seem and ATTITUDE has as much to do with it as ability.
A quote by Nelson Mandela seems appropriate here,"It always seems impossible until it's done." Don't get me wrong, I am not likening my accomplishment in the kitchen to his in the world... but I do find a great deal of inspiration in quotations. They encapsulate a lovely amount of wisdom normally impart a new word or two and normally serve to uplift my day in one way or another. But I digress. I am now capable of cooking tuna casserole, apple porkchops and meatloaf, among others. I also learned how to make a Roux!! (pronounced /ˈruː/) is a cooked mixture of wheat flour and fat, traditionally clarified butter. It is the thickening agent of three of the mother sauces of classical French cooking: sauce béchamel, sauce velouté and sauce espagnole (you know me, if it's French, Je l'aime!!!) It's quite exciting to know that this is just the beginning of my journey in the kitchen, I look forward to learning it all, including how to debone a fish, and even some gourmet dishes down the line. For now, the practical application of this skill is enough, but its very good to have goals towards more advanced epicurean escapades. I think the most exciting thing about learning to cook is that A) I can do it. B) I am actually pretty good at it C) I can do ANYTHING I set my mind to and that is always a good thing to realize no matter what the topic! Wishing you light and love!
