Tonight I got to take part in a french cooking class. I absolutely adore cooking so getting the chance to do it in such a food-focused city was so much fun and so exciting. Half the group made chicken samosas and salmon wrapped in zuchinni and the other half (my half) made these little cheese and walnut bread cake things and wraps with ricotta, sundried tomatoes, fancy ham and basil. So not very french, but I liked it anyways.
For those of you picturing me cooking away like Martha Stewart, then you have obviously never seen me cook. It was a lot more like Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, frazzled and breaking eggs all over the place (okay there were no eggs, so everyone else was safe there). I may have ended up with 40 grams of something when I needed 30 and such but I take a very c'est la vie approach to cooking. You always end up with something in the end so why worry? Well we all ended up with lots of delicious food in our bellies and smiles on our faces. And that's all that truly matters.
Cooking is kind of like life. You can try to get all the right ingredients and follow the recipe perfectly, but you will never get the same result twice and you may end up with something that you didn't expect. Sometimes that something is magnificent and sometimes that something didn't turn out quite right. But all is okay because you got something from it all, good or bad. Sometimes you decide to skip the basil and end up with a semester in Paris. Sometimes you add cinnamon when it called for nutmeg and you get something completely different than you expected.
Next time you try out something new, be it cooking or something new in life, let life happen. Don't worry about what you will get in the end, just enjoy what you are doing at the moment. Relish in cutting the tomatoes instead of imagining the salad you will get in the end.
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