Home Cooking

A home cooked meal is an interesting way of connecting with family and friends. It can be a way to start a new friendship, such as inviting the new neighbors over. When someone takes the time to prepare a meal it says you are worth some effort. When you take the time to plan and prepare a meal you a pouring yourself into the meal. You are effectively sharing yourself with your guests.

What you cook says alot about who you are, how you are feeling, and what the occasion means to you. Cooking something you, yourself, find delicious is self-fulfilling. Cooking something that someone else loves, but is not one of your favorites, can be considered self-sacrificing. Cooking something that you and your guest both love can be very bonding. Cooking something new lets your adventuresome side out. Sometimes we cook to survive - we are just too tired to care, so we make what is easiest.

Home cooking can allow our creative, artistic selves to be free. Carefully slicing and chopping the food, the art of placing the food on the serving plates, how we set up the table, and the final presentation of the meal all let our inner artist out. The pride we can feel when we get it right and get the response we want makes it all worth it.