Here’s a quick fix recipe to deal away with the blues of an overtaxed day, one that leaves you bamboozled about life with a deep feeling of emptiness inside. I’ve resorted to it time and again for it not only curbs those hunger pangs and tantalizes the taste buds but also effectively revives and teaches what life is all about or rather offers a paradigm of it from a chef’s point of view!
Let mom create magic with her secret culinary formulae presenting you with a dollop of freshly kneaded dough filled with oodles of love giving you a chance to manifest your culinary skills just like He has created us with the same basic but mystique ingredients and given us all a fair chance to make the best out of it, never caring about issues like origin or race because no matter how the dough is baked- round, oval, thin, crispy, over-baked or even chewy- it would still be a pizza base!
It’s about choosing the right toppings to make it a mouth-watering, lip-smacking, delicious, delightful food fiesta. First, you make an assortment of all the flavors of life. ‘Spicy’ for the heated conversations and for times that made your blood boil with rage; ‘Tangy’ for all the naughty pranks you loved playing as a teenager; ‘Cheesy’ like when your heart melts out of pity; ‘Mellow’ when you’ll ripen with age and sit back in your rocking chair pondering over the good old days and ‘Mushy’ to raise a toast to the beautiful moments so filled with love, mirth and ecstasy that time seemed to stop.
So often things have left us feeling dejected, helpless, vulnerable to circumstances, compelled to bow down before the situations posed with absolutely no options to choose from. Just like that, reach out for all the vegetables you can find in your refrigerator, then slice them, dice them, toss them, grate them or chop them and while you sauté them you’ll be gripped with apprehension as in most of life’s situations. But just keep holding on and it wouldn’t be long before you’ll savor the tempting aroma. After all everything comes in a passing phase!
Once the pizza’s done, garnish it exotically and cut it into eight pieces, four for the diet conscious. Call your chums over for a pizza party and enjoy a hearty conversation. They don’t say ‘Good times start with great pizzas’ just like that! And after relishing it all, there would be crumbs still left on the plate. That’s how life is. You pluck a cord and the melody continues to linger even when you are gone!
That’s one of my favorite dishes- a pizza. Something I cannot resist to devour before it’s even set on the platter. It’s not just an epitome of ‘Bon Appetite’ or an outcome of Italian serendipity but every bite of it is a celebration of something larger, something real. Something called LIFE!
Let mom create magic with her secret culinary formulae presenting you with a dollop of freshly kneaded dough filled with oodles of love giving you a chance to manifest your culinary skills just like He has created us with the same basic but mystique ingredients and given us all a fair chance to make the best out of it, never caring about issues like origin or race because no matter how the dough is baked- round, oval, thin, crispy, over-baked or even chewy- it would still be a pizza base!
It’s about choosing the right toppings to make it a mouth-watering, lip-smacking, delicious, delightful food fiesta. First, you make an assortment of all the flavors of life. ‘Spicy’ for the heated conversations and for times that made your blood boil with rage; ‘Tangy’ for all the naughty pranks you loved playing as a teenager; ‘Cheesy’ like when your heart melts out of pity; ‘Mellow’ when you’ll ripen with age and sit back in your rocking chair pondering over the good old days and ‘Mushy’ to raise a toast to the beautiful moments so filled with love, mirth and ecstasy that time seemed to stop.
So often things have left us feeling dejected, helpless, vulnerable to circumstances, compelled to bow down before the situations posed with absolutely no options to choose from. Just like that, reach out for all the vegetables you can find in your refrigerator, then slice them, dice them, toss them, grate them or chop them and while you sauté them you’ll be gripped with apprehension as in most of life’s situations. But just keep holding on and it wouldn’t be long before you’ll savor the tempting aroma. After all everything comes in a passing phase!
Once the pizza’s done, garnish it exotically and cut it into eight pieces, four for the diet conscious. Call your chums over for a pizza party and enjoy a hearty conversation. They don’t say ‘Good times start with great pizzas’ just like that! And after relishing it all, there would be crumbs still left on the plate. That’s how life is. You pluck a cord and the melody continues to linger even when you are gone!
That’s one of my favorite dishes- a pizza. Something I cannot resist to devour before it’s even set on the platter. It’s not just an epitome of ‘Bon Appetite’ or an outcome of Italian serendipity but every bite of it is a celebration of something larger, something real. Something called LIFE!
Lonely and alone I sit in the dark