I Would Like a World...

I would like a world where we don't measure things. I mean in cooking. I mean the way it was before recipe books.

I have a book I used to use in my classes when I taught school. The book is packed away, but I'm almost positive that the title is 15th Century Cookery Boke.  I used this book in classes because it was written in old English. We would discover some of the words we use today, and yet, back then, the meaning of the word was different from what the meaning is today.  Sadly, I can't remember one of these words this moment.

This book was fun for us. We even had days when some of the kids would bring in what they cooked from these hit or miss recipes.

It is so freeing not to have to measure. Just to do it by what it feels, and not care so much for precision.  I know Heaven Admin cooks by intuition. It's an added boost.

My mother used to make authentic foods without measuring. My neighbor who was from Greece did too. I think they both would be perplexed by measuring. There had to be something wonderful in just letting spices fall from your fingers.

I often put oatmeal and apple slices and cinnamon in a slow cooker. I delight in not measuring and guessing instead. The oatmeal, apple, and cinnamon cook overnight, and in the morning it's done. It's so well cooked that it doesn't require any added sweetening.

Sometimes it comes out the way you would expect oatmeal to come out, and sometimes it comes out like a pudding.  Once it came out like soup. Like a pudding is my favorite way. I never know ahead of time how it's going to come out. And I like not knowing and not even trying to make it come out one way or another.

There are other tiny ways I would a world to be, but I'll save those for another blog.

What are some of the tiny ways you would like the world to be.  Not the big things. Just little ways that might make living sweet.