KITCHEN IS MY THERAPY 

Food has been one of my passions in life since my young ages and I am not just saying this to impress you all! I remember reading and collecting cookbooks in elementary school. Reading cookbooks, and studying recipes and rehearsing the steps of recipe instructions in my mind was a fun activity for me growing up and of course, practicing recipes in the kitchen as permitted by mom or when she was not home…

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Life put me in different educational professional experiences throughout years. I did not have time to enjoy cooking and baking for many years. However, I kept reading cookbooks and cooking/food magazines and watched cooking programs on TV.

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When I had time, I cooked traditional family recipes, and other recipes and created my own recipes, too. I wrote many of my recipes in notebooks, in Word format in my computer and lap-top for many years. One day, I realized that I had more than 100 recipes written in my computer and many more written in my mind. It was time to write a cookbook. And I did…I will write more about this later.

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I don’t need to follow food recipes step by step anymore. Many years of cooking and baking experience gave me this skill I guess. I can cook and even bake without measuring anything. I am not going to be modest about thisJ)

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Chopping, slicing, stirring, kneading, washing, rinsing, whisking, mixing, frying, boiling,  …. Makes me happy. Makes me feel alive. I forget about my problems, my sorrows and my worries in the kitchen. 

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Yes, kitchen makes me feel alive, and kitchen is my therapy.

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Ginger