Say I love you regularly to the person who shares our life, it’s important. For Valentine’s Day, I’m giving the floor to my wife who wrote me this open letter when my book was released Eat well as a family. A way to thank her and say: Myriam, I love you my love. What if you did the same? It feels really good.
Cooking with love means taking care of those you 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 right?
Open letter to my husband
“When we were a young couplewe most often prepared the meal togetherperhaps less busy with our professional life and with our children, who were not yet born.
Then, my maternity leave gave us new habits that continue to this day. Because, very often, the one who feeds his child best is the one who takes care of him continuously.
It is in this way, like many women, that during the growth of our children, I learned to cook for the whole family by first rediscovering purees, then by 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 of culinary practice. Even if, it must be admitted, we appreciate the meal for the intimate momentofexchanges and cheerfulness that he offered us only for my little meals.
However, I did say “gastronomic meals”, because, if my skills were not always assured, the principle of the gourmet meal was already acquired.
Cooking is saying: “I love you my love »
“Since the responsibility for preparing 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 into account everyone’s tastes, innovating, and giving your time. Anguishing you might say?
I want to answer that you just need common sense,organization and the passion. As the logistics of meals require that they be thought out in advance, this is most often a problem of management. However, due to 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 much time and if it is Goodit’s even better!
My dear husband, when you ask me: “What are we eating tonight?” »I want, for once, to flee my unhealthy modesty and to answer you, as you often repeat, that to nourish is first to give love. So you will know, the next time you sit down at the table, that:
- I have questioned you for years to better understand your tastes;
- I have listened to your wise advice;
- I have designed menus that suit your appetite, your needs and your desires;
- I went shopping;
- I spent time cooking;
- I made sure to make the meal appetizing through the colors, the presentation…
I do not ask that you become aware of the time spent which 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 introduced you to vegetables that you didn’t eat, I learned to cook the family dishes that you ate as a child, as I introduced you to dishes that I loved and which came from my own culture.
From time to time I made the children eat before us, lit the candles on the table so that we would never forget why we had married. And, if you have sometimes avoided salads or crunchy vegetables, you will recognize that I have also prepared some pleasure foods.
I cheated on sauces by reducing them, I increased the proteins when you did more sport, I made meals denser 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 caught in the process.
The amazing adventure of food
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 became women, I invite you (you reader, editor’s note.) to experience 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. So, when I look at our children, I consider that I have not wasted my time shopping and preparing meals but that I distributed something essential.
We must, in fact, never forget that food education is inseparable from emotional needs and other educational areas. Thus, despite all the difficulties it presents, theeducation of children is a source of ever-renewed joy, a wonderful adventureas enriching for those who give it as for those who receive it.
A beautiful mark of love, no? Love is in the meadows, certainly, but it is also in the kitchen and on the plate! Go to the person you love and tell them: “I love you, my love.”
It’s a bit my news philosophylearn 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 in their right place.
“ I love you my dear », a phrase that feels so good to say and hear! Happy birthday to all lovers!
