Hi My Sweet Girl,
I find this lesson to be particularly important during the
holiday season.
Life Lessoned Learned
#41: Food brings people
together.
Food preparation is not as easy as it may seem but it’s
worth the effort. Good food
encourages company to stay and come back again. It makes your house warm and smell delicious. Don’t be afraid to try new things and
practice. However, I can save you
some time with five tips I learned first-hand.
1.
Don’t substitute summer sausage for regular
sausage. I don’t like to cook meat
(nor eat much of it) so I didn’t realize that they have completely different
tastes and can change the flavor of a dish in a not-so-yummy way.
2.
Be careful when you try to make a butterfly out
of waffles and bananas. You and I
were making this scrumptious and beautiful creation when your Dad pointed out
with quite the smirk that ours didn’t look like a butterfly. You didn’t notice and gobbled it up!
3.
Just because you like an ingredient doesn’t mean
you should put more than what the recipe asks for. Your Dad calls my meatloaf an onion loaf (I used 3x the
amount of onion). And for a
chicken bake I tried recently, I added extra cans of fire roasted tomatoes,
which just made the whole casserole soggy.
4.
Definitely tear the minute rice bag to
vent. There was a terribly loud
popping noise before rice exploded all over the microwave.
5.
Make sure you add water to the Kraft microwave
mac n’ cheese. The smell of burnt
noodles and plastic along with some smoke stayed a few hours that afternoon. Unfortunately, it was during a play
date with some of your friends. I
can only imagine what the other mom must have thought!
6.
Have the local pizza delivery restaurant on
speed dial.
Based on what I just wrote, it’s obvious that I don’t like
to cook (your Aunt Samantha and Mimi should be your guides in that area). However, I do love to bake. And I’m sharing my passion for that
with you. You help me make all kinds
of truffles (the latest being nutella flavored), chocolate covered pretzels,
many varieties of cookies, and a range of different muffin types.
Kitchens are natural places for people to congregate. Don’t ever feel like you need to spend
a lot of money either. Recipes
that are made with love are the best.
Put dishes out when people come to visit. Oh and offer hot tea, and when you are old enough, make sure
you always have a bottle of wine on hand.
When bellies are full, people are happy.
I love you my little chef!
Mom
XOXO
Kim I am defineitly with you on baking. But this piece was priceless. Love hearing about your blunders, we all have them its with lots of practice and take out menus that we all survive.
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