I love food!
I love eating food.
I love talking about food.
I love making food.
I love making food for others.
My grandpa used to call me the "bottomless pit" when I was little and I remember thinking that must be cool. "Give me more" because I always had room for seconds at the dinner table. My mom made really good dinners, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches too. I loved all of it, and wanted to try it all, eat it all, love and experience it all at the dinner table.
My first real job I worked at an ice cream store where I first got the opportunity to play with food and eat all the mistakes " oh I'm sorry sir, you didn't want hot fudge on that, I will make you a new one". You can't save ice cream really or reserve it once it has been scooped so of course I ate those "mistakes" and enjoyed every bite. This was the beginning of many adventures in exploring flavors and combinations to come. I was the queen of making the most creative flurries and milkshakes back in my high school years.
About my writing: At the beginning I figured it would be fun and easy to write about all my kitchen adventures and my passion for eating.
I had no idea when I started putting my thoughts into words on a page that it would become a filing cabinet for my mind and experiences. This place for my thoughts now has many more categories than just storylines for food loving.
When I picked up my chefs knife for the first time and made the decision to devote my creativity to the endless possibilities that ingredients and practice could produce, I also learned I could relate the skills I was practicing to much more than a delicious dish. My life and everything in it has become a lot like a kitchen, with ingredients, tools, decision making and choices- I can create whatever I want and with practice I can produce some pretty amazing things.
I have related so many of these regular tasks of the kitchen to my life in general. I have found interesting and wonderful correlations between so many of the routine practices that a chef is required to know how to do in order to be successful is related to many other life experiences on a daily basis.
In the process of writing my stories and sharing them I have seen how this place for all the words and thoughts in my head has become something even more than I ever realized it could be. I am feeling inspired more than ever again to start writing my stories and sharing them. I hope to continue making connections, not only with food, family, and life but also to understand better my experiences each day and in the process become more aware of just how great a gift this life is.
If you are reading, thank you for following along. I hope that these stories and thoughts are fun and interesting. Most of all I hope that they add to my community, a voice to relate to.
Happy Tuesday and in the spirit of my previous blogs here is a "Tuesday's Top Ten"
Tuesdays Top Ten Favorite Words right now that will give you insight to what i am thinking about most right now
1. Family
2. Community
3. Hygge
4. Thankful
5. Challenged
6. Listen
7. Patience
8. Support
9. Love
10. Brave
Do you have a top ten words you have noticed you have been using a lot more lately than any others? What do those words tell you about where you focus is right now- how will they transition and change as you get ready to go into this next season? I must confess, I am inspired by what my top ten are saying to me right now and excited about what lies ahead.
If you are reading, thank you for following along. I hope that these stories and thoughts are fun and interesting. Most of all I hope that they add to my community, a voice to relate to.
Happy Tuesday and in the spirit of my previous blogs here is a "Tuesday's Top Ten"
Tuesdays Top Ten Favorite Words right now that will give you insight to what i am thinking about most right now
1. Family
2. Community
3. Hygge
4. Thankful
5. Challenged
6. Listen
7. Patience
8. Support
9. Love
10. Brave
Do you have a top ten words you have noticed you have been using a lot more lately than any others? What do those words tell you about where you focus is right now- how will they transition and change as you get ready to go into this next season? I must confess, I am inspired by what my top ten are saying to me right now and excited about what lies ahead.
