🧑‍🍳 TREE 298: Trust the journey

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Katerina Pavlakis, The Intuitive Cook

For maximum enjoyment, focus more on the journey and less on the destination.

Reframe your cooking as a process and a ritual and take your eyes off the finishing line. It doesn’t have to be a competition. Cook to cook, not just to eat.

And when it comes to eating, stick to the same approach: Eat to eat, not just to swallow. Aim for quality not quantity. Enjoy every bite to the fullest: the anticipation, the smell, the mouthfeel, the taste... Listen to your body too. Eat what you fancy. Decline what you don't like. Eat as much as feels right and stop when you feel full. (You can always have more later.)

Choose food over food ‘products’. Remember: if you cooked it, it’s healthy. This also applies to cakes, desserts and snacks. :^)

Trust in the magic of home cooking. As humans, we all appreciate being cooked for and nobody expects, or even wants, a fancy restaurant meal for Christmas.

Give some thought to what you truly love about the festive table and let go of the dutiful rest, alongside with any expectations of ‘doing it right’.

It's meant to be a feast of joy!

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Collage by Phoebe Weston. Enjoy more of Phoebe’s work here.

Three.

Katerina is taking us around the world musically this week. Today we’re in Indonesia.

If you feel like you could use a little guidance with this whole intuitive cooking thing, Katerina is doing Zoom workshops on Friday and Saturday this week. Today is the last day to get the discounted price. (I’m not getting paid to tell you this. I’m telling you because I believe in what Katerina is doing and I’ve been on one of her workshops.)

Cook joyfully
Jeff