Sunday Dinner

I am the one who makes Sunday dinner now. (I also usually make dinner on the weekdays, if I have time.) Dad used to always do Sunday dinner, but now the torch has been passed on to me. Through this experience, I have come to love cooking. Before Dad got sick, I rarely made dinner. Every week on Saturday, though, Dad would make a menu for the week and would try to involve all of us in making dinner by assigning each of us a day to prepare it. This was really the time when I came to enjoy cooking. I loved finding new recipes to try, new cooking techniques to learn and how to cook with new ingredients I had never used before. Cooking really is just ongoing experimentation, and I guess that is what I like about it so much. Since we have to eat everyday, we might as well find new (and preferably healthy) ways to fulfill that requirement. It’s pretty amazing to learn about nutrition and what is good for you to ingest into your body. When you think about it, we are just stewards to out bodies gifted to us by Heavenly Father, so we need to take care of them, and cooking, for me, is one way I like to keep my, and my family’s bodies healthy and happy.