When it comes to cooking I'll easily admit I'm full of anticipation. And I get my inspiration from any old thing in my kitchen, it could be an ancient cookbook, a new gadget, or some picture hanging on my wall...I just apply my anticipation to my inspiration, use my imagination and out comes "dinner".
I have always loved Gods sense of humor. As I look back at how many burned meals my sweet Hubbs had to eat during my early years in the kitchen I chuckle, knowing God never let us starve, but we wish He had done the cooking:). I had great cooks in my life, just not great teachers, and so I set off a young married woman who stood in her first kitchen going 'wow, so whats this thing for?', and 'oh, oh, what's that smell?'. My years in many different kitchens have finally taught me the love of cooking and it's finer details, and "I think" my own current family would tell you I have acquired 'tasteful and tasty' skills.
Favorites for us are sometimes just the "classics", you know those...the meatloaf, tuna casserole, pot roast, chicken and dumplings, spaghetti and meatballs. For us these are the 'oldies but goodies', and I have kept their foundations...but I've raised the bar a bit. We all need a 'boost' from time to time and the same goes for our meals together, keeping memories and making new ones can be done around our dinner tables, and will stay with your famiy for many years. But to keep everyone full of anticipation over dinner, we need to apply what we know and be inspired to let our imaginations create fun and crazy good food.
So stuff that meatloaf with mashed potatoes, add some lemon zest to that Tuna Casserole, or some coca-cola to that pot roast, a little nutmeg to those chicken and dumplings, and maybe some hot sausage and fresh sage to the spaghetti meatballs. Raise the bar on those classics, but keep thier base, you can't give your famly too much love ~ they have hung in there with you this far...run with it.
I think so much about God when I'm cooking. He always accepts me as I am, I'm like his 'classic Suzi', yet He always creates a desire in me to strive for something higher. He stirs my heart to reach for more of Him...because the Lord knows He is the ultimate recipe for joy in my life, and the best I can give to my family. You see, God wants more than the 'ordinary' for us ~ He wants the Extraordinary.
Enjoy your kitchen classics, remember those times in your life...but don't stay there, move forward with God. So go, cook some retro fave of your own...I'll be right there with ya!
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