You know what it is about cooking that simply makes me go mad with excitement and crazy with focus and dedication? It's the result.
The food may come out perfect, really tasting the way it should, feeling the way it should, and looking the way it should. But sometimes you make a recipe and it FLOPS! You make an awful cake or a sour dessert, or a dry chicken. Either way, there is a definite result. If you made something stupendous, you keep the recipe and make it again, every time you have important guests or friends you want to impress. If the dish came out tasting any less than perfect, you have a chance to start from scratch and try all over again. You can change the recipe to your liking, you can modify whatever you want.
It just excites me so much: on one hand having the pressure to make it right, because I will be serving it in a few hours no matter what, and on the other hand, knowing that if this dish is a disaster, I will know for next time to play with the recipe a bit.
And when the recipe comes out right- o boy. It's like heaven on earth for a moment. The split second when someone tastes what you've made, and you're holding your breath thinking 'please like it, please like it'... well, when they give you that side smile you want to just jump up and down!
Alright, enough craziness for one night.
As always- enjoy the food you eat. It is food for the body, but nourishment for your soul.
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