Great tips for finding lost love in the kitchen.
Five Ways to Get Your Cooking Groove Back: Kim O'Donnel
1. "Roast a head of garlic: Trim off the top, slather it with olive oil and wrap in foil for 30ish minutes in a 400-degree oven. The perfume alone will inspire; the buttery oozing cloves will make you do a jig and yes, kiss someone."
2. "Go to your nearest farmers market. Stand by a stall selling basil and/or peaches and/or berries. Close your eyes. Inhale. Open your eyes, purchase and feast your senses. Spontaneous dancing in the streets may ensue."
3. "Engage in mindful cooking with the simplest of dishes, a meditation of sorts. Boil a pot of rice. Listen and smell while it bubbles up to the lid. Scoop into a bowl. Sprinkle with soy sauce and sesame seeds. Slice a cucumber and listen to the clunk of the knife on the cutting board. Taste slowly."
4. "Make a grilled cheese sandwich. Is there anything more comforting and soul stirring, or personal? Make one for yourself, and one for someone you like, or maybe even love. Eat under the light of the moon and with abandon."
5. "Grow something to eat: a pot of rosemary, a cherry tomato plant, a hanging basket of lettuce. It may not seem like much, but watching that plant grow will fill your heart and mind, and have you firing up skillets in no time."
