Cooking is Way Too Tedious
I’ve taken an interest in expanding my culinary abilities lately…so I’ve been experimenting in the kitchen every couple of days.
I just spent around 30 minutes pan frying a thick slab of chicken breast, boiling water and soaking some linguini noodles, heating up alfredo mushroom sauce in a microwave, and throwing all three together to make the ugliest piece of crap I’ve ever eaten.
I mean, my cooking doesn’t taste bad or anything like that, it just looks like someone ate it whole, and hurled it back out. And of course, after creating my freak dish in about 3 minutes, I began scrubbing the accretions of chicken fat that had solidified on the bottom of the frying pan. Sadly, my limited cooking ability and lack of general serving size experience rendered my attempts to satisfy my hunger futile.
In other words, I spent about an 45 minutes cooking and cleaning for myself, and I was left neither satisfied with the portion size, my use of time, or even the aesthetics of my food.
What did I learn?
Cooking is way too tedious.
This realization has made me think about a couple things:
- (Perhaps in light of Mothers Day) I miss my mother a lot. More and more each day, I am learning to understand and respect the love that she has always poured out on me. While I struggle to make simple amateur dishes, she could spend hours in the kitchen pouring into a masterful meal that I’d be absolutely clueless of and skip to go hang out with my friends. What a bad son eh?
Which brings me to my second thought:
- Cooking for myself is far too tedious. I cannot put my mind in a place where i can rationalize the amount of time and effort I use to cook while I could have simply just heat up a bagel.
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I only cook for those I love.
Much like my Moms love fueled her to spend hours of meticulously laboring to feed me in my early years, I too find a joyous reward and satisfaction in providing a loved one with a warm satiated feeling.
In my book, nothing says, “I love you” like a slab of steak in your face.
Y’all know who you are. <3
