My family has always cooked with love. My whole family. From my Grandparents on both sides to both of my parents, cooking runs deep in my blood. My Mom has always had this crazy palate and was always trying to make new things growing up. She had the one spoon rule where she made my brothers, sister and I try everything once. It definitely worked on me. I think a lot of my cooking style comes from her. I try new things all the time. I experiment with different ethnicity's and flavors. I (try) to make my boys abide by the one spoon rule. One boy is willing to try things, the other one not so much right now, but theres hope! Anyway, when I get together with my family, we eat. It doesn't matter who cooks, we cook with love because we want to A.) impress our family members with our mad cooking skills and B.) just sit around have a nice meal and enjoy the company. Not neccesarily in that order, oh who am i kidding, its that order :) It doesn't go like that all the time but again, you can tell when love is not put into what you eat. I am probably crazy but I can feel the emotions that come out when I'm eating. I know what angry tastes like, and happy and sad, but most of all I know what love tastes like. All of my experiments gone wrong happened on days where my heart was distracted. Things where I don't even want to eat what I make. Thankfully that doesn't happen too often and rather than cook, if its in the budget, we order pizza from the place down the street. That guy must cook with a lot of love too because I've never had anything I've been disappointed with. Or its Mac and Cheese and Chicken Nuggets, or corn dogs which ironically is ALL the boys in my houses' favorite nights LOL!
For some, cooking is a chore. Who likes chores? I don't, I'll do them but generally I don't put my heart into cleaning the toilet. When its time to cook though, I want to make the most delicious meal ever and top the night before's meal. I feel really good about my winning percentage in that so that is another reason why I felt like I need to do this blog. I want people to want to cook, and do it with heart. Maybe for some it will make dinner not such a chore, I just want people to try that one simple thing. I promise it works!
You don't even have to have a plan, just want to make a delicious meal! Probably 5 out of the 7 days I just perouse through what I have and figure out what I have enough of to make something new. Then I name it something good and was posting my "Culinary Creations" on Facebook. I wanted to be the Ghetto Gourmet but darn it if Coolio didn't beat me to it.
The main ingredient in what you cook needs to be love.
In future parts of Cooking with Love I am going to do pieces about my family members and how they have contributed to showing me this ingredient. They all have their things that have attributed to my cooking style, as well as why I am me.
I'm going to make Shrimp and Grits tomorrow, so be ready. I had planned on blogging about my Rockfish dinner tonight, but it was not my best presentation wise and I have standards you know :) It tasted great though. Fish probably wasn't the best thing to try my new pans out with as I never cook it. Come this summer, its on with the halibut and though I hate to say it I am going to conquer salmon and decide I like it.
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