I Love To Cook, Do You ?

As humans, we have a mouth to eat, to survive, to know what is the best food, and eat to learn more about a food. The best way to learn about a food is to try to cook it. For me , eating is also a way to enjoy my life, and of course, my life will not be perfect if I do not try to learn how to cook . I love using my hand to feel a tomato's shape, and using my tongue to feel how my chicken soup will be different if I put too much sugar or salt in it. Thus, the reason why I picked a recipe blog is : cooking is my life.

 You may like to design clothes, and you may also like to sing. I do too, but my love for cooking is more than these. I cook when I have trouble, when I do not want to face a bad truth, when I am in a bad mood, or when I need to think about a dilemma. I stay in my kitchen, chop ahead of a garlic, or wash a cucumber, and think about what happened . That way, I can face the truth in an indirect way. I also can solve my problem, or make a hard choice that I will not regret, and when I feel lonely, like Laurie Colwin said on Goodreaders website , “No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.” I will not be alone when tomatoes peppers, onions, and carrots are around me.

I love to cook because this is a way to show my love. “There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves”, said Thomas Wolfe. The shortest way to a man's heart is through his belly. I love to cook for my love. I want to give the best in the world to him, and make sure that he will not get sick by what he eats. Also, I love to cook for my family, and this is the sweetest action to show my love and my respect to my parents. My brother likes my chicken baked with onion, ginger ,and lemongrass. My boyfriend likes everything I cook. My best friend loves my rice paper mix. Nothing makes me happier than seeing people around me eat my food and say “ t is so delicious , Nica.”

Cooking helps me to learn . Learning how to cook taught me how to become a good wife, how to be a good boss of my kitchen, about differences in food between countries, and about English too. When I first started, I felt so scared and nervous . I could not fry an egg with hot oil, the most easy recipe in the world, but I could not do it because I worried the hot oil would burn my hand. But after a time, I learned more, and could control everything. I made it work for me. I learned , “ turn the gas low when you put a chicken in, and make sure that everything is dried before you put in a hot oil.” Beyond that , I also learned about "kimpap and sushi". These are spring rolls in my country, but Kimpap comes from Korea and " sushi" comes from Japan. Cooking could improve my English skills, I know more vocabulary about food, like lemongrass , ginger, chive, tofu , and gold fish, seaweed.

Cooking develops my creativity. By not following every step or recipe to cook a soup, I can create a new soup , and rename it by my name , or make it suitable to my family's taste. The rule is, there is not only one way to cook a dish. People can take a short cut to get to a destination . As when you follow a recipe to bake a chicken,you need one hour to bake it, but when it is done , the chicken will be firm as a rock. However, if you boil a chicken first, and then bake it, the chicken will be tender ,more delicious, and cook faster .A chef will not be successful if the food he or she cooks does not fit with a diner's taste. I can make a delicious spaghetti by following a formula, but my family will not eat it. I can use my creativeness to add some salt or draw out some cheese to make a food fit with my family's taste.    

I love to cook, and my love for cooking will never fade. I never want to stay where I am and be left behind. I want to learn more and more about food. I do not know how many foods we have in the world, or how they taste, and a good chef is always learning and finding a new recipe, to be timely with the world. I want to make my life more spiritual and colorful by bringing more food to my world. Those are all reasons I want to write a blog about cooking and food.