Something Good to Eat!

This month we've had occasion to do some experimenting in the kitchen!

For Family Home Evening a few weeks ago we made Caramel Coconut Cream Tarts! They were very tasty. Somehow a whole bottle of caramel sauce mysteriously disappeared almost overnight with the project... I'll have to remember that next time I try this combination!

Naomi loves to cook and try new things, one of her recent selections was Stromboli. The best way I can describe it is basically pizza pie! Yup, pizza with a crust on the bottom and on the top! She filled it full of good things to eat, added cheese to the top and viola a delicious and nutritious meal!

OK, maybe not so nutritious with the nacho's
but it was a birthday request! Had to make it fun!

It is amazing the variety that is available for meal choices out of such similar ingredients. There isn't really a lot of difference between pizza, chili buns, or even taco soup! Yet they are all uniquely different.

Life is not much different from cooking in the kitchen. Each of us is so unique and so individual and the choices we make and ingredients we use, will produce some thing a little bit different from everyone else. If we were cooking up choices, in our lives, in our circumstances, in our history, will each  cook up with different, though appealing results. However, those good choices will always smell good, taste good and nourish those who partake of them. Our choices nourish our families, friends and associates. It is so cool! I love how just cooking a meal reminds me of the great gift of agency that I have been blessed with. It is so awesome to have the gift to choose for myself what I will be and do with my life. And when I choose well, I always feel that powerful sense of joy that comes from God, who endowed me with the gift of agency in the first place.

Life is like biting into a tart and finding sweet caramel surprises that sweeten the experience and fill me with gratitude and joy for the very gift of life itself!