I Love Cooking
I love cooking. Yesterday was a messed up day. I spent half of yesterday in and out of “the void” and there is a haunting terror of the void that I have come to realize that I am not ready to discuss yet, but that is for a different day. Today, we are talking about cooking. Yesterday, Sheri and I made homemade Beef and Broccoli from scratch from the Dr. Phil Diet Cook Book. Oh My God! It Was Delicious!!!
When I am in the kitchen and I am hand slicing high-quality meat into tiny-thin slices, carefully chopping fresh vegetables and putting them into various bowls so that they are ready for when I need them, and measuring out my spices and either mixing them into a tiny glass bowl or into several little glass bowls for when I need them, it makes me feel alive and happy. I feel like I’m one of those Chef’s on Iron Chef in my Kitchen chopping vegetables and having all these various bowls and pots and pans full of various items all cooking at precise times to make the meal come out as perfect as I can make it. I like to use all fresh vegetables for flavoring and keep my spices to a minimum. I LOVE having colorful foods, and Bell Peppers add lots of color and crunchiness to food and when properly prepared, don’t really add or detract from the main flavor, or add any of the spice or the “heat” from a bell pepper.
Oh, and don’t even get me started with Jalapeno Peppers. I have to thank my Friend Norm for turning me onto Jalapeno Peppers. However, I’ve taken what he showed me to an entirely new level of cooking. Flash cooked, grilled, stewed, “no meat, light meat, full meat (and heat),” it doesn’t matter, because I have mastered the Jalapeno pepper. I have grown to love the Habanero Pepper as well (and the Bhut Jolokia – used in weapons). People just do not realize the sheer pleasure of the flavorful Habanero that they are missing because they are afraid of one of the world’s hottest pepper. Granted, it does take several attempts before one learns to properly “control” and “respect” the Habanero Pepper before one can deliciously use either flavor only, or heat and flavor, or flavor with a touch of heat in recipe’s, and always be sure to wear surgical gloves when handling Habanero’s to prevent accidental eye injuries!
Each week, I sit down with my cook books and I pick out 7 recipes and I make out my grocery list. I can’t carry groceries and Sheri works 12+ hours a day, so I order groceries online and have them delivered. It only costs $6 extra to have the groceries delivered right to my kitchen and it’s worth EVERY DIME!!! All I have to do is unbag them and put them up! Hell! It’s worth the 6 bucks just to not have to carry all the soda’s, water’s and milk up the stairs, let alone all the other groceries! LOL!!!
Did I mention that I love cooking?
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