The other love of my life, there is psychedelics/healing, groundskeeping and number three is cooking. I don’t do it as much as the grounds work but the time I spend in the kitchen is my absolute favourite time.
I listen to msuic, sing, dance, walk in and out, smoke pot, and take my time to make simple food ridiculously beautifully. The last few days simple stuff, spaghetti that made me almost cream my pants, perfect hot chocolate’s, pancakes and then simple simple salads’s that are things of pure magic.
Oh, and the coffee that comes out of my space, consistently the best I have ever had anywhere in the world. My kitchen is a really nice place to be.
I don’t often take photos, unless I am trying to get some sex on dating apps but even then I don’t take photos, just set up the device with a phone taker timer and hopefully by the time I remember about it again there is a photo or three I can use. However, I do take photos when someone gifts me something and then I use it, I send them a photo to show my appreciation, this one is an ode to a beautiful friend called Eileen who gave me the figs, she is coming for lunch today too.
I do it simple because simple is easy to do, simple is beautiful, it comes with no stress.
Today, for lunch, I am making pumpkin soup. Slow time pumpkin soup, roasting the pumpkins, making sure it has every chance at full flavour without having to add heaps of extras, salt, pepper and sugar in particular. Learn to cook well and adding flavouring just to give food some flavour becomes a thing of the past. Learn to use vegetables to create flavour foundations and cooking becomes something else, without actually needing to do anything other that what you already are. You simply perfect it.
The pumpkin soup is cooked, finished, only needs to be heated up on the stove, being careful not to bring it to the boil so the cream does not split. I roasted the pumpkin and carrot two days ago when I was making dinner. Yesterday when I was making lunch I did the remaining part of the soup at the same time, waited for it to cool, blended it up, added cream and put it in the fridge.
No stress in the entertaining space today.
Also, while I was making my dinner on Saturday I made the pizza dough, it is sitting in the fridge ready to go, I only need to leave it out for an hour before rolling it and putting the toppings on.
It’s toppings are cooked, did that yesterday while making lunch also, I only cooked the meats, garlic chicken for one and cabana for the other. I didn’t need to cook either but having cooked meat, that looks cooked, is beautiful on a pizza, it is much more appealing than soggy stuff which has been thrown on without thought.
Today, the only thing I have to do, unless I decide to make garlic bread is roll the pizza dough, spread the toppings and put them in the oven.
Almost all of the dishes are already washed, there is nothing to do. There will be six people here for lunch, including myself and I will not spend more than 30 minutes in the kitchen which includes the final prep, cooking, and serving. All of the food will be amazing, it will be perfect simple, the best type of perfect and it will look like it came from a professional restaurant.
Entertaining can be super easy, without any stress at all, cooking can be one of the most beautiful things a human being can do. You know how to do this and you have the strongest of foundation tools for the best life at your fingertips. Start simple, start by knowing the terms associated with cooking, practice easy easy tasks, master them and work your way up.
Going from burnt toast to a croquembouche in three days is probably not a realistic goal, target or expectation, you really are just setting yourself up for failure. Instead, go from burnt toast to not burnt toast, start there.
KISS, keep it simple stupid.