Cooking for healing

I am still wallowing in self pity when I realized that I should start cooking. It's 15 minutes past 11 and I haven't eaten anything.

I decided to cook boiled chicken with vegetables. It's a traditional Filipino recipe which consists of chicken, potatoes, and lettuce. All these things brought to a boil with fish sauce as flavoring. You might not like the sound of that but for the Filipino tongue, that sounds yum.

I further realized that cooking somehow heals the heart - well my heart in this instance. If you're suffering from home sickness, from a bad day at work, or by merely flunking an exam, this is a probably your ticket to a good two hours or so.

Cooking I assume has healing abilities. First, it gets your mind off the stress of whatever it is you've been bugging about. Second, it gives you a yummy treat after. How cool is that? I now realize why a lot of people do this as form of self-healing or something. Take Julie Powell's blog for example. She used cooking as therapy.

Maybe I should do this more often. I Hope to read other blogs about this topic too. Got to go. Have to eat. Happy lunch everyone!