Cooking

Just thinking today about how much I enjoy cooking. So here is a little poem I wrote awhile back about cooking.

Cooking with Flavor in Mind

The flavor is where we begin and end.
Pull out the ingredients from the start.
Each one scrutinized, just right.
Adding the right amount is where flavor begins.
How this is determined is done by a taste.
When the taste is bad, less or more we must add.
Sometimes starting over when the favor is overwhelming.
Starting again with the right amount with one ingredient.


Then one by one through each ingredient.
Tasting and testing for the right amount.
Flavor is important for it is the beginning and the end.
The flavor of each ingredient affects the whole.
Each flavor we must add with an end goal.
Taste testing and wondering how it will be.
Thank goodness for starting new when the flavor is not right.
Opening the oven to bigger and better.
Allowing the ultimate Baker to bake just right for us.
Tasting and testing for the right flavor.
Putting it in the oven when all seems just right.
The oven bakes away.
How much time does it need?
To much or to less may cause it not to have the right flavor.
Overdone makes it bitter and the smell of burning fills the oven.
Underdone is just not quite to perfection.
The time it takes to perfection of flavor.
The time it takes to understand how much time is needed.
Once perfection is reach in the oven the next step we will take.


Tasting and testing if the baking succeeded.
The end result is done by the ultimate Baker.
The whole process He watched, planned, and perfected.
The next step is digestion.
The smell is perfection of the ultimate Baker.
Will our stomach accept and digestion occur?
If the ingredients are from the ultimate Baker.
What choice do we have in what the Baker has baked?
Except to choose to digest for His flavor is perfection.
Tasting, testing, digesting with flavor in mind.