Always Use The Best Ingredients

99% of the time, I use fresh, high quality ingredients, it truly makes a difference in your eating experience and in your life. You are what you eat and if you ingest the best, you feel your best. Well, today I made a dipping sauce to go with the gyoza (pot stickers) I made.  I used a sweet soy sauce I bought on line and it didn’t taste quite right - uh oh.  I tried doctoring the flavor by adding other delicious tasting ingredients. It was a waste of time and quality ingredients! 

In life, we often try to make things better when we have something distasteful going on. Like me trying to make my first marriage work, when I knew in my heart it wasn’t going to, no matter how much I put into it, no matter how much I gave, no matter how much I tried to be what I thought he needed.

I love being a Spiritual Foodie. It means I’m always seeking sustenance and lessons to learn in whatever I’m doing, how about you? I do a lot of cooking, so I see life’s lessons in my recipes. Here are a few:

Carefully select your ingredients (aka, friends, partners, career). Make sure it suits your palate. Sometimes you just have to taste it (experience it) to know.  If it doesn’t suit your taste, take immediate action and choose something that does.

Don’t try to change something, ie: make your partner better, by “adding” other ingredients to cover up a core flavor. Have the guts to start over.  Like I did with my dipping sauce, I threw the first batch out and made a much better one. And like I did with my first husband. I didn’t throw him away, but I had to find the strength to leave him. It was one of the hardest, most painful things I’ve gone through. I had to admit I made a mistake choosing this core ingredient in my life. 

Pay attention to expiration dates. As the bible says, there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1) Are you acting like you did when you were a teenager? Maybe it’s time to recognize a new season and take responsibility for your life, your health, your happiness. It truly is up to you, no one else.

The more love you put into your work (cooking, career, yourself) the better the outcome. 

I invite you to seek guidance and direction when you cook and pay attention to what comes up. Ask God and the ingredients to speak to you, and they will!