I want, but no time. I want, but not for anyone. I want, but not from anything. I want to cook, only … I don’t want?
Having eaten another plastic slice of bread with a rubber lump of pork in mayonnaise sauce, we promise ourselves that we came to this branch of the Underworld on Earth for the last time. Someday we will fulfill our plan. Why not right now?
Instruction manual
1. Inspect the kitchen or area reserved for the kitchen corner. The reason for most unfulfilled ideas is an uninspiring workspace. Our space should have functional areas and the necessary equipment. If you buy salads and baked potatoes every day, it might be worthwhile to buy a home set for chopping vegetables and checking the oven.
2. So, you should have a surface on which you cook. It should be roomy and flat. It is desirable that several bright objects stand on it (a decorative vase with colored stones, a fruit platter). It is desirable that the surfaces on which you cook, behind which you eat, be different. This will make the cooking process more solemn for you.
3. Inspect the cutlery and cooking items - perhaps they have not met your needs and aesthetics for a long time. Suppose you have been a vegetarian for half a year now, but the central place in the kitchen is still allotted to knives for cutting fish. Your kitchen should change with you. Knives - on the table. A double boiler is a place.
4. Any space becomes comfortable if it has matter. Put soft cloths, a nice towel for your hands, and the kitchen will become friendlier. A tablecloth, chair covers, potholders and an apron - any of these items will change the atmosphere.
5. Make sure that the kitchen corner contains a pleasant aesthetic. If you are a coffee lover, buy a few Turks or a manual coffee grinder. If you like dairy products, put an oiler and a milkman on the shelves. Decorative paintings, watches, several statuettes will add additional flavor.
6. Hang a small kitchen board. On it you can write plans for tomorrow, a list of products or goodies that you would like to try. You can pin photos of food from a magazine or images of countries where your favorite dish is being prepared.
7. Make it a habit to go to the vegetable market once a week. Let it be a leisurely walk of a potential foodie who just came to taste new products. Buy vegetables, fruits, nuts.
8. Read Herbert Shelton's book, The Right Mix of Foods.
9. Start your kitchen traditions. For example, on Tuesdays to cook an omelet for breakfast or every last Friday of the month to celebrate with a new dish from Dagestan cuisine.
10. Once a month, invite to dinner for friends. Food is an important part of human life. This is a kind of communication through which we transfer part of our creativity and our attitude to people we love. If you treat someone, then you care about this person. Ayurveda, for example, says that the longer a woman prepares food for a man, the more strength and good she puts in it, and the stronger he will be.
Out of habit, for some time your body will resist a new way of life, in which there is now time for cooking. This is normal. The main thing is to understand what a great and wonderful world opens up to those who decide to finally take care of themselves.