I Love Food and Love to Cook
Food History...
In my life food and its preparation has always been very important.
All the holidays and travel events were around food and special preparations . The church and neighbors would come. My mother and all of us kids spent days before the events making special foods like rum cakes, pond pudding, watermelon pickles, and so much more.
Every Sunday was a cooking event. My mother never cooked on a Sunday, but Saturday night after a lazy, late afternoon we were all in the kitchen preparing the Sunday feast.
My mother believed the Sunday meal should be the best meal of the week.(unless there was holiday that week) She said it celebrated the Creator, the Christ, and it started the week off right.
She canned foods in mason jars, made jams & jellies, cha- cha, and processed most of the vegetables in our gardens into plastic freezer bags for frozen storage. She also cured and prepared meats for frozen storage, also. Then when the holidays came up she never had to spend a lot on groceries or special items because they were always on hand.
She taught us how to keep yearly storage on all foods before preservatives became the norm. She showed us how to make dried herbs and which herbs were alive all year if you could shed them up properly.
I learned to love cooking because love always was present in the house around the cooking, serving, and the togetherness afterwards. Everyone had a dish he or she was good at and we had contests to see who was the best.
To cook for yourself was better than great, but to cook for someone else was a gift from the Gods my mother would say. She believed you were sharing a gift from the Lord when you made and shared food with anyone else.
Cooking is a blessed art when done that way and it always feels good when I'm in the kitchen. She taught us to love all foods and at least try a food once before you decided against it. She taught eating food in moderation, though. She felt glutting on food or anything else was a true sin.
I always love trying a new food or new menu in my kitchen.
How about you?
Peace and Love to you all.
In my life food and its preparation has always been very important.
All the holidays and travel events were around food and special preparations . The church and neighbors would come. My mother and all of us kids spent days before the events making special foods like rum cakes, pond pudding, watermelon pickles, and so much more.
Every Sunday was a cooking event. My mother never cooked on a Sunday, but Saturday night after a lazy, late afternoon we were all in the kitchen preparing the Sunday feast.
My mother believed the Sunday meal should be the best meal of the week.(unless there was holiday that week) She said it celebrated the Creator, the Christ, and it started the week off right.
She canned foods in mason jars, made jams & jellies, cha- cha, and processed most of the vegetables in our gardens into plastic freezer bags for frozen storage. She also cured and prepared meats for frozen storage, also. Then when the holidays came up she never had to spend a lot on groceries or special items because they were always on hand.
She taught us how to keep yearly storage on all foods before preservatives became the norm. She showed us how to make dried herbs and which herbs were alive all year if you could shed them up properly.
I learned to love cooking because love always was present in the house around the cooking, serving, and the togetherness afterwards. Everyone had a dish he or she was good at and we had contests to see who was the best.
To cook for yourself was better than great, but to cook for someone else was a gift from the Gods my mother would say. She believed you were sharing a gift from the Lord when you made and shared food with anyone else.
Cooking is a blessed art when done that way and it always feels good when I'm in the kitchen. She taught us to love all foods and at least try a food once before you decided against it. She taught eating food in moderation, though. She felt glutting on food or anything else was a true sin.
I always love trying a new food or new menu in my kitchen.
How about you?
Peace and Love to you all.
