Cooking...

If there is a job I truly enjoyed doing it is undoubtedly cooking. And it probably had something to do with the madness in the kitchen, the electric energy, the high pace, the heat, the fires, and the spices...

As a cook, I am rather spontaneous and mostly intuitive. Tonight, for example, there are three pans going at once. In the kitchen at home, the pace is high, but the fire is on low, for when it comes to cooking, I hate rushing through the experience...

I have Digweed playing on the background. The CD's name is 'Exposure.' The beat has been following me from my last drive through the familiar grids and dispersed architecture of Madison.

At the end of the ride, I took a moment to feel the first snow flakes of the year as they fell and instantly melted against my face. Winter is finally here. Saturn is settling in, claiming the outdoors, spreading through the land, and since I am mostly Saturnian, the moment is rather enjoyable.

These are interesting times, for there is so much sensuality in the air. It is almost as if a dance of wills is taking place between Venus and Old Saturn. The wind has been hallowing and blowing with great force. Trees have turned to wicked elders and fallen leaves have began behaving in the most unruly of ways, whirling, spinning, chasing each other, chasing cars. The long, jet black or crimson dyed, hair of witches can be caught flowing freely on the sidewalks.

Venus is receding within. She is going in with a bang, inflaming the world as she steps inside, revealing her beauty and light against the most esthetically unappealing of backgrounds -Saturn's. For it is without a doubt that she looks her best, when standing in all her majesty, next to the depth and grayness of that Great Fallen one.

But that is all in my mind, and time is fleeting by and the kitchen is requesting my inspiration... What's for diner? Might you ask. Well, the menu tonight is
-Brown Bastami rice -cooked in water for thirty minutes,
-Black and pinto beans, blended together and left to simmer nicely together
-Diced carrots, red cabbage, broccoli, and green kale thrown together in a warm olive oiled pan until deemed perfectly done.
As for the spices used: Sea salt, granulated garlic, turmeric and cumin -because I can't cook without cumin. And let us not forget a breath of crushed habenero.

What else... Oh yes, there is a French baguette, organic Mozzarella cheese and my latest favorite, some Pecorine Romano Genuine Fulvi (Sheep's milk -Italian.)

Like love, cooking requires attention, and in the end you get what you've put into it.

Be well and don't be afraid to experiment when in the kitchen.

Don't worry and be ready to let your inner alchemist shine through