From the kitchen to the soul

Yataro Matsuura said in his book 《Go To Life》:

"If you're good at cooking, you're good at living."

To cook a meal carefully seems to be plain, but it is soaked with love and feelings for life.

One meter a vegetable can be a poem, POTS and pans can be painted.

In the light of the time, they slow cooking wind flowers, fine stew years, every ordinary day, have a very good life.

In the eyes of those who love to cook, the background color of life is just a bowl of human fireworks.

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I have heard such a story.

A girl was studying abroad and staying with an American family.

Unable to adapt to foreign eating habits, she began to learn to cook on her own.

The first dish is sweet and sour spare ribs.

As she smothered the ribs in sugar and braised them with spices and bone broth, the smell of the food drew the host family over.

They crowded around her, watching as she reduced the heat to a sticky consistency, drizzled it with old vinegar around the sides of the pan, and sprinkled it with cooked white sesame seeds on a plate.

It was the first time they had ever seen someone cook a dish with such care, and the food was so rich in color and flavor that it made their mouths water.

The girl invited the host family to share the food, and they praised her repeatedly.

After the meal, the host excitedly asked the girl if she could cook them two meals a week for half the rent.

In this way, the family was very worried about the girl, afraid that she alone in a foreign country, study and life will be very unaccustomed.

With the skill of cooking, the girl easily integrated into the life of the host family.

Being able to cook is an amazing life skill.

Once you have this ability, you can cook delicious food from local sources wherever you go, and live up to your body and stomach.

When one of my colleagues, my daughter's boyfriend, came over for dinner for the first time, he cooked a little stir-fry of soybean oil skin.

Look at the boy as I put in a pot, and toss it, and stir-fry it.

Fire stir-fry, small fire feed soup, make this dish into the juice and taste, knife skills skillfully, master the heat just right.

His colleagues immediately took a liking to the boy.

Zhang Xiaoxian once said:

Men still want to have a little smoke and anger, love and marriage is to eat a lot of meals together, embrace a man who loves to cook, is to get a real long-term meal ticket.

Don't underestimate cooking as a life skill. It is not only about nourishing oneself, but also about making a living and finding love.

Cook carefully. When you love yourself, you can love others.

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I watched a video of a couple cooking, and the picture was very beautiful:

In the kitchen, two people are cooking home dishes.

Tofu was simmering in a pot with minced meat, ginger and garlic, green peppers and tomatoes, and the soup was bubbling, its heat rising through the half-open window.

While talking to the boy, the girl slowly sliced scallion and bitter garlic, ready to put the tofu out of the pot.

The garlic flower was inserted into the vase next to the girl.

Just as the branches were sprouting out the window, the boy looked up and said, "Look, what a fine spring!"

At that moment, the sound of the wind, the sound of the knife cutting vegetables, the sound of the garlic flower, the sound of the soup bubbling, melt together, let a person feel that this kind of life is warm.

No wonder some people say that the true romantic place in life is the kitchen where the smoke rises.

People who love to cook, understand life, also can always find the beauty in life.

I have a friend, for a period of time, failed in work, frustrated in love, feel that life is not interesting, sitting anywhere can not lift up the spirit.

But one day, she passed the wet market and accidentally turned into it.

Then the lively eyes came straight over: red pepper, green eggplant, fresh cucumber, radish, lively fish and shrimp, let her feel refreshed.

That day, she bought a crucian carp and some fresh vegetables. When she drank the thick white crucian carp soup and looked at the steaming food on the table, she felt that her vitality had returned.

Originally, a good life, sometimes just a good meal.

Because, in the human fireworks, every meal is a refresh of life, a drink and a peck, are the enjoyment of life.

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Harumi Kurihara, a Japanese food blogger, has a catchphrase:

"Feed your stomach, the heart is not empty. If you soothe your stomach well, you are not afraid of anything."

People who love to cook are generally very kind to themselves, even if it is a very hard day, will not let themselves live too down and out.

At the beginning, Zhang Daqian went to Dunhuang painting murals, although the conditions were hard, he was happy, than anyone else had a good time.

When there was a shortage of ingredients, he would make good use of them and create his own delicacies. For example, when mushrooms grew under poplar trees near his home, he would happily gather them and make a fresh mushroom haggis for stew.

In his philosophy, wherever you can eat well, you can live well.

People who love to cook, also always more than others can heal themselves.

I've also seen a series of short films called One's Apron.

The girl in the drama lives alone and eats alone. Every day, she makes a simple food according to her mood, such as tomato cheese Udon, soy milk miso soup, potato omelette, Japanese gyoza and so on.

When the food is slowly swallowed with soothing music, the worries and anxieties of the day and all the negative emotions are relieved and healed.

So, the smoke from the kitchen, it's the most soothing.

People who love to cook are better at creating and finding fun in life.

I have a colleague who loves to cook. He has a house in the country next to a big river. On weekends, he invites his colleagues and friends to join him there.

Put the big pot fire up, barbecue rack up, truly braised a pot of fish, is seriously braised on a pot of beans.

Then he looked at the sizzling smoke of the barbecue, the bubbling of bubbles in the big cooker, and his friends drinking their glasses as they talked, and he felt satisfied. He felt that this was the life he wanted.

Love to cook, deep in the heart of love, never perfunctory life, life naturally will not mistreat them.

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There is a sentence I like very much: who is from the mountains, lakes and seas, but confined to the kitchen and love.

Life is half fuel, half star sea.

Want to make every ordinary day have a taste, there must be a heart infiltrated by fireworks.

Have a stove, maintain a passion, from a steaming and boiling, for life to serve the most sincere cup.

Life is like mail, no matter what, don't live up to the tea, soup and good weather.

Eat well to live well.