Food That Speaks to Soul

Ok, you take spices, tomato puree, onions… and wait a second?! Are we talking about the Finnish macaroni casserole or something more metaphysical?

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

Ingredients For Your Soul (Food)

When I am standing in the kitchen, something, like a shift, usually happens. The difficulty of deciding what I want to eat, and, thus, cook, has vanished. And the ingredients are there. Ingredients that are going to turn into something that has been there since my childhood—makaronilaatikko (or macaroni casserole).

Coated with cheese, served steaming hot, after an hour in the oven (like many other Finnish casseroles, it is always 1 hour in the oven)… comfort food to the max.

What Else Is Cooking?

As much as makaronilaatikko is food for the soul, creativity and ideas are food for the imagination. Without imagination our mouths wouldn’t water when we think of the food that we want to cook. And without imagination, or mayhaps paranormal experience, my book, Buried Hearts, would not have seen the light of the day. The story would have remained, unheard and unwritten, wandering in the deserted streets of ruined Pompeii for an eternity more.

But just like the makaronilaatikko, my book took its time and was cooked to perfection, and I made it ready for you to sample at Amazon. I would be grateful if you purchased it, and reviewed it.

Dessert?

Every proper meal required good food, and a dessert. If I had to pick one dessert to make it would be a Finnish pancake, or pannukakku.

Here we just whisk all the ingredients up and put the batter to a preheated oven tray and let it cook for roughly 30 minutes. Which is perfect as we can use that time to set the table and brew some coffee to go with the pannukakku.

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