The Art of Cooking

As a part of the digital declutter I performed over the last month, I decided to pick up cooking to fill in the extra time I gained while taking my mind offline.

I found that cooking isn’t so much about following recipes, it’s a lifestyle choice demanding you to rethink how you want to feed your body and soul.

The way you cook is the result of many parameters coming together: diet choices, finances, energy levels, seasons, locations… it gives a lot of room for the practitioner to express himself. 

In this sense, cooking is a craft: the more you do it, the better you become, and the more you learn about yourself and the world surrounding you.

Cooking starts with ingredients. Once you learn how each ingredient interacts together and how to bring out flavors and textures with the appropriate cooking method, the possibilities become endless: you’ll never have another boring meal, even with the simplest ingredients.

My current objective is to create a 7-day budget meal plan that’s 80% vegetarian and in-season, from the recipes I experimented with over the past weeks. Once I’m done with the initial plan, I’ll slowly improve it in an iterative fashion to take into account my macro intakes and seasonal variations.