Say I like you regularly to the person who shares our life, it is important. For Valentine’s Day, I leave the floor to my wife who wrote me this open letter when my book came out Eat well as a family. A way to thank her and say to her: Myriam, I love you my love. What if you did the same? It’s crazy good.
Cooking with love is taking care of those we love. Around food, there is love, pleasure and sharing, here is what I wish you to be able to receive on this Valentine’s Day, even Valentine’s Day, it should be all year no?
Open letter to my husband
“When we were one young couplewe most often prepared the meal togetherless occupied perhaps by our professional life and by our children, who were not yet born.
Then, my maternity leave gave us new habits that still persist today. Because, very often, the one who best feeds his child is the one who takes care of it on an ongoing basis.
It is in this way, like many women, that during the growth of our children, I learned to cooking for the whole family by first rediscovering purees, then relearning to eat vegetables more regularly and to appreciate them.
From then on, our tastes evolved, the “gastronomic meals” that we made then had a quality proportional to my knowledge in culinary practice. Even if, it must be admitted, we appreciate more the meal for the moment of intimacyoftrades and gaiety that he offered us only for my little dishes.
However, I did say “gastronomic meals”, because, if my skills were not always assured, the principle of the gastronomic meal was already acquired”.
To cook is to say: “I love you my love »
“Since the task of preparing the meals fell to me, the good nutritional practice also came back to me, without ever forgetting that to feed is also a act of love and tenderness. Cooking means paying attention to others, taking everyone’s tastes into account, innovating, and giving of your time. Scary you say?
I want to answer that it just takes common sense,organization and some passion. As the logistics of meals require that they be thought out in advance, it is most often a problem of management. Only, for lack of time, it is often this step that we regularly skip.
Not very easy to become mom. Even less to devote herself to her child without ceasing to be a desirable lover. Food becomes a pleasure if there is conviviality, if it does not take too long and if it is Wellit’s even better !
My dear husband, when you ask me: ” What are we eating tonight ? »I want, for once, to escape my unhealthy modesty and to answer you, as you often repeat, that to feed is first to give love. This way, you will know, the next time you sit down to eat, that:
- I’ve been questioning you for years to get to know your tastes better;
- I have listened to your informed advice;
- I have designed menus that suit your appetite, your needs and your desires;
- I did the shopping;
- I spent time cooking;
- I took care to make the meal appetizing by the colors, the presentation…
I don’t ask that you realize the past time that measures my affection. Feeding is an act of pure tenderness. I think about feeding you, so I think about you.
If you haven’t noticed, I made you discover vegetables that you didn’t eat, I learned to cook family dishes that you ate as a child, as I made you discover dishes that I liked and that came from my own culture.
From time to time I fed the children before us, lit the candles on the table so that we never forgot why we had married. And, if you’ve sometimes shunned salads or crunchy vegetables, you’ll recognize that I’ve also prepared food pleasures.
I cheated on sauces by lightening them, I increased the proteins when you did more sport, I made meals more dense with vegetables and found new recipes. However, all this would not have been possible if you had not accompanied me in the nutritional advice that you divulged and that I grabbed in passing”.
The Great Food Adventure
aware that a healthy and balanced diet must begin from the earliest childhood, I, Myriam, doctor of pharmacy, women nutritionist and mother of three young girls who have become women, I invite you (you reader, editor’s note) to live this wonderful adventure around food, by offering those you love easy-to-make recipes and menus, cooked with love of course.
And, of course, if you hadn’t accompanied me on our journey lover. Thus, when I look at our children, I consider that I did not waste my time shopping and preparing meals but that I distributed something essential.
In fact, we must never forget that food education is inseparable from emotional needs and other educational fields. Thus, despite all the difficulties it presents, theeducation of children is an ever-renewed source of joy, a wonderful adventureas enriching for those who give it as for those who receive it”.
A beautiful mark of love, isn’t it? Love is in the meadows, of course, but it is also in the kitchen and on the plate! Go see the person you love and tell them: “I love you my love”.
It’s kinda my news philosophy, learn to say: sorry, sorry, thank you and I love you. This is inspired by Ho’oponopono, a term of Hawaiian origin which means: put things back in their place.
” I love you my dear “, a sentence that is so good to say, and to hear! A happy holiday to all lovers !
