Cooking
i had a small revelation on how to cook really. Cooking is seriously an art. To tell the truth, cooking is basiclaly three things: Balance, composition and most importantly patience.
I can't really explain how I have the talent to cook. It could sprout from the fact that I am an artist, but as good as I am, I'm still a mere amatuer. I still can chop or slice consistently and sometimes my balance for stir fry veggie to meat ratio is entirely off. However I do realise that cooking is a very personal thing and if you really do not put love into your cooking, it will turn out pretty badly. This happened to me plnety of times where my cooking tasted bland because I didn't care.
The way I can visually show how cooking is more of touch and feeling than of sight, is salt.
To tell the truth, salt adds and brings out the flavor to a lot of recipes. Hell, salt is even in good cookies. The thing is imagine salt to be small little worlds with "auras" of atmospheres. Swirling masses of taste that compose of this small particle of a world. As we add it to an item and cook it we destroy this small cluster of worlds, releasing the atmosphere's and planet's contents unto the galaxy of our food. It slowly spreads the cosmic dust of flavour all around the food, pentrating it and giving it a balance to it....a cosmic balance.
Too little and it will be isolated like a gas giant in some distant part of the galaxy, too much and it would collapse the galaxy of food upon itself, making it dangerous for the tongue to navigate. You just have to feel for the "aura" of the salt, seeing as it plops down on a steak or chicken, how it wafts this glow of taste onto the food. You can develop a sense of balance from recipe amounts, and when you cooked enough, it becomes second nature on how much to add or how much is enough flavour.
Achieving balance in food isn't that hard, but it's merely developing the right feel for the food...smelling it, feeling for it and most importantly sensing the food. You can visually sense it, looking at it and how it suddenly makes this complete feeling in your stomach and mind on how well balanced it is.
Yeah baby yeah.
i had a small revelation on how to cook really. Cooking is seriously an art. To tell the truth, cooking is basiclaly three things: Balance, composition and most importantly patience.
I can't really explain how I have the talent to cook. It could sprout from the fact that I am an artist, but as good as I am, I'm still a mere amatuer. I still can chop or slice consistently and sometimes my balance for stir fry veggie to meat ratio is entirely off. However I do realise that cooking is a very personal thing and if you really do not put love into your cooking, it will turn out pretty badly. This happened to me plnety of times where my cooking tasted bland because I didn't care.
The way I can visually show how cooking is more of touch and feeling than of sight, is salt.
To tell the truth, salt adds and brings out the flavor to a lot of recipes. Hell, salt is even in good cookies. The thing is imagine salt to be small little worlds with "auras" of atmospheres. Swirling masses of taste that compose of this small particle of a world. As we add it to an item and cook it we destroy this small cluster of worlds, releasing the atmosphere's and planet's contents unto the galaxy of our food. It slowly spreads the cosmic dust of flavour all around the food, pentrating it and giving it a balance to it....a cosmic balance.
Too little and it will be isolated like a gas giant in some distant part of the galaxy, too much and it would collapse the galaxy of food upon itself, making it dangerous for the tongue to navigate. You just have to feel for the "aura" of the salt, seeing as it plops down on a steak or chicken, how it wafts this glow of taste onto the food. You can develop a sense of balance from recipe amounts, and when you cooked enough, it becomes second nature on how much to add or how much is enough flavour.
Achieving balance in food isn't that hard, but it's merely developing the right feel for the food...smelling it, feeling for it and most importantly sensing the food. You can visually sense it, looking at it and how it suddenly makes this complete feeling in your stomach and mind on how well balanced it is.
Yeah baby yeah.
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