{"id":1781,"date":"2009-04-06T01:44:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2009-04-06T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:47:29","slug":"the-secret-ingredients-of-good-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/04\/the-secret-ingredients-of-good-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Ingredients of Good Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1782\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/959020_vegetables.jpg?resize=300%2C257\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During my college days, I had to learn to cook to survive the grey days of England. I remember telling myself, &#8216; What&#8217;s so hard about cooking? All I need is to be able to get the seasoning right and everything will taste perfect!&#8217; Well, it wasn&#8217;t at all perfect for the first few rounds. I still remember the awful food I had to eat to prevent waste. After some trial and error and many yucky meals, I finally got the hang of it. I was able to mix and match seasonings and sauces without any measuring tools. I was never really a big fan of cooking but I felt joy when my guinea pigs genuinely enjoy the dishes.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of good cooking is like a form of meditation in motion. The ideal ingredients are simple &#8211; harmlessness, loving-kindness and mindfulness. A meal that does not involve bloody killing, that is prepared out of loving-kindness can never taste bad. Imagine a doting mother going through great lengths to buy, wash, cut and prepare ingredients just to cook for her only hungry child. Mindfulness would be likened to the fuel of dedication or fire of passion that cooks the dishes.<\/p>\n<p>For an authentic and exquisite meal, one need not spend a fortune at an expensive restaurant or have a meal made by a famous chef. One does not even need any rare or costly ingredients. All one needs is to fill one&#8217;s mind with loving-kindness, see the kitchen as a meditation hall and simply cook mindfully. May all always have the opportunities to prepare, have and share hearty compassionate meals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my college days, I had to learn to cook to survive the grey days of England. I remember telling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[200,89],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-loving-kindness","tag-mindfulness","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}