Cooking with Intent

I've always cooked with intent, though I didn't know what it was at the time. When I cook I put all my energy into making it. I think good thoughts, "the kids are going to love this" or "this is the type of meal that will have us sitting around the table telling funny stories." These meals, almost always turn out really well, look pretty, and do indeed make us happy and satisfied.

Other times food has the opposite affect. This often happens when I'm using ingredients or a method I'm unsure about, it makes me anxious, or the food just looks ugly and unappetizing, no matter how tasty it might be. These meals are almost always rejected, noses turned up, I feel sad and unloved because no one wanted to eat it, especially after making something that caused me so much anxiety. This is especially frustrating when I know it tastes good and has a lot of potential.

No, I don't give up on these new menu items. I usually think of something different I can do the next time I make it and then low and behold, I'm happy and confident when I make it and everyone eats it and loves it.

Not too long ago I was flittering around on the internet, which is common for me, and somehow came across a website about cooking with intent or as some called it kitchen witchery.





It was at that point that I started to put two and two together.

Believe what you want but I believe I really was pouring all of my feelings and thoughts and energies into my food.

It makes me think of the book The Secret, that was all the rage a while back. Remember how it was all about sending your will, your intent, your positive energy out into the universe so that it would come back to you? To me this is the same idea. Actually, if you read up on wiccan and witchcraft, a lot of it is the same idea. It's nothing like the witchcraft that is performed on television shows like Charmed or Buffy. It's all about your will and your intent and sending those energies into the universe. I wonder if anyone ever actually connected The Secret with witchcraft?

Looks like I have some more internet flittering to do.