How to enjoy cooking more - 3 dinner time tips

It's easy to slip into feeling like dinner an interruption. But since we do need to serve dinner everyday, why not learn how to enjoy cooking more?

Show Notes

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It's easy to slip into feeling like dinner is a drag, like it's an interruption, like it's something we just really rather not do. But since we do need to serve dinner everyday, why not learn how to enjoy cooking more? It truly is possible!

Of course, there are times where it just doesn't happen or it doesn't work out or we don't have the time, and so we have plan B meals. We have takeout—there’s pizza (whatever) sometimes that happens. But as a general rule if we are walking into the kitchen and feeling downcast and downtrodden because we have to fix another meal it’s really not the kitchen work that has to change or a new plan we have to make unless that plan is about our attitude. 

Today I have three tips to help us learn how to enjoy cooking more:

1. Plan and reserve enough time to make dinner without rushing.
2. Intentionally cultivate and practice cooking skills.
3. Understand that cooking is relational and meaningful.

We need a plan to fix our attitude, not a plan for fixing dinner. We've got to fix dinner. We have to fix our attitude first and even while we fix dinner. And when we can repent of our bad attitudes about our responsibility to feed our people we will find not just that we dread making dinner less, or we are resent the obligation on our day, or the mess in our kitchen that dinner makes, instead of looking at all those things as impositions on us, we can take it in stride as a part of our responsibility and duty and not just do it out of drudgery, but actually enjoy it. 

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