I love to eat. Food is a heavenly joy which is WAY overlooked in modern society. We think fancy food is for snobs and fat people. But the opposite psychology is what make eating tasty food good for your health and spirit. Most Americans, for example, use food as a drug. We’ve been encouraged to do this by the fast food culture, which feeds us the most addictive substances possible, aside from tobacco and heroin. Salt and Fat and Sugar are addictive, yes. But when food is balanced in flavor, including reasonable amounts of those addictive substances, it creates a harmonious experience for us which is TRULY satisfying. It feeds our soul instead of just our hunger.

But I hate overeating. I don’t know how people do it.

I love to cook! Yet I hardly ever use a cookbook. I’ve learned the basic structure and chemistry of cooking over the years, and of course I’ve used cookbooks a lot. But these days, I prefer to create something off the top of my head most of the time. Often it involved opening the fridge and using what is there.

I’ll be posting a lot of my creative recipes here. I hope you’ll share yours with me.

Ren Powell’s blog Sidestepping Real offers her vivid opinions on life. She recently posted, among other entertaining rambles, about the importance of maintaining the ideal in our heroes in Kill the Mermaids. In particular, she criticized that the identity of Spiderman (II) was revealed, and therefore, his character stained by the imperfection of gaining recognition for his good deeds. I loved that movie, and took some offense at my hero being poked at. But her point was well taken. Hero’s must give us a flawless goal to strive for. In my browsing of quotes by my new favorite writer/poet May Sarton, I found this gem which sums it up perfectly.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.