Recipes and Matching Fragrances for Cooking

I had a wonderful day of cooking today, made several dishes and meals to both eat and store away for the next few days. The joy of puttering is greatly appreciated when you work full time. As I was making a simple guacamole dish, I found myself enjoying the fragrance I was wearing, thinking how perfectly it enhanced my experience today. My son who was helping me even commented on it.

I thought we could have a thread of favorite recipes and then a fragrance suggestion for enhancement of preparing that particular dish. Sound odd? Cooking is such a multi sensory experience, it seemed a good idea to me.

Here's a guacamole recipe I got from an ER doc friend of mine:

2 ripe avocados, mashed
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 ripe tomatoes, chopped
2 tbs of olive oil
juice from 1/2 lime or lemon
1 tbs of chopped cilantro (or coriander seed)
salt and pepper to taste

mash avocados with fork, add tomatoes and minced garlic, mix in the rest of the stuff and let sit in a fridge for 1 hour. Add beer and oily chips if desired

Best prepared wearing Kingdom by Alexander McQueen

I also made a mango teriyaki tilapia dish over soba noodles with fresh mangos and green salad....oh happy day!

woo HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUM

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(First, liberally apply Ava Luxe Cafe Noir behind ears, on chest and bosoms, and inside of elbows. No wrist or backs of hands. Luxuriate.)

TaoLady, I see that you are a truly expert chef , as evidenced by these essential instructions! Rachel Rae eat your heart out!!!

[IMG]httokay, I may have gone off my rocker, but this morning I made my first batch of pancakes on my new stove


and got so excited that I ended up naming my stove SERGE and taking its picture. Sorry the photo is a bit blurred, my hands must have been shaking with excitement. I was wearing Nirmala by Molinard, it must have put me in a worship mode, as usual



This reminds me of when I was living in Alaska as a door to door saleswoman and came across a family living up in a very rural village of Alaska. The family was comprised of an elderly man and his three grown sons, they were all rather stout and squat and sported pointy white beards, they called to mind the dwarves in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. They bought a picture or two from me, I was selling artwork at the time, then they said, "Do you want to see our photo album?" As I leafed through, I quickly realized that about 80% of the subject matter was of their truck. Their truck in a field, their truck in front of a fence, their truck in the driveway, once in a while, them with the truck. I found their obsession rather endearing.
This morning as I snapped my photo of Serge, I felt a kinship to these fellows.
Human nature is a strange and wonderful thing.

well, sure, off the back of the Aunt Jemima box...add milk, eggs and oil, whisk, and you are ready to go!