Home Cooking: Comfortable and Fun

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2011

Home Cooking: Comfortable and Fun

Hi Everyone!!

Back to my postings after some weeks of absence. With 2011 to start with, how about some forethoughts on going back to the basic home cooking?

Since the emergence of all these restaurants, food courts just about anywhere and the home deliveries services, home cooking has still its edge over them. To think of the advantages that home cooking brings such as costing less, assurance of fresh and  healthy foods and fosters bonding time, it is still very popular and the most sensible thing to do. So, here are some ways to make home cooking comfortable and a real fun.

Home cooking should have a kitchen setting that has a welcoming effect, a feeling of ease and a feeling that its not a mundane. This can be created by setting up a cozy kitchen that makes one feels a warm,  home-country effect that in spite of the modern kitchen utensils, tools and equipments. To achieve this effect, the first thing to consider is the space. This doesn't matter whether the kitchen is large or small as this depends on how big the size of the house is. What matters is that there's ease and free movement in the kitchen setting. Kitchen gadgets, utensils and equipments should be in proper places where they can be readily reached whenever needed. An easy access to every kitchen implements.

Modern kitchen with a clean, aesthetic stainless settings and with wide array of bright colored, best pots and pans, gadgets and appliances can be complemented with earthen colors as in wood tools and gadgets like chopping board and others. Homey kitchen setting can have rugs on the floor and can be decorated with floral curtains and plaids. Have a soft cushioned chair to add up to its coziness. Place a kitchen table so clutters are not just about anywhere. Small, decorative pots can be planted with herbs that are used frequently. This provides for an easy access to fresh herbs aside from adding ornaments to the kitchen.

Making home-cooking a fun is just part of being creative. Experiment on new recipes with other members of the family or with your friends. Just the feel of anticipating on how the new recipe comes out is already a joy. Have some of your favorite music playing and dance and chop to its beat. Kind of weird but still funny. The fun and the feeling of happiness just being there in the kitchen with rest is great as it is already bonding time. Surely in the future this can bring a smile in everyone's face every time this moment comes to mind.

Always bear in mind that a comfortable and homey kitchen is the busiest place of the house where home cooking will forever be a family fun fare even with the generations to come. So, busy or not, make a habit of preparing foods home cooked. Your loved ones will forever be grateful and love you for that.