Unshackled Moments ~ June 28 ~ Taste And See

My wife is an artist in the kitchen, and I'm not talking about how she took over half of the kitchen table to paint, although there is that too. She is an amazing cook with instincts that just amaze me. She sometimes seems not to understand why I get excited rather than nervous when she tells me that she is cooking something she's never tried before and that she got an idea for some new dish. I get excited because in the years we have been together I have gotten to taste many new things, personal creations from the mind of my wife, and they have all been good. Seriously, I'm not exaggerating. She has only cooked one bad dish in all these years, and that was one of the few times I've ever known her to follow someone else's recipe. Just don't make blackberry cobbler with coconut flour, just don't.

But the normal is that her cooking is amazing and great. Even the leftovers are great. Sometimes they even taste better the next day. Some men may joke or complain about eating leftovers, but not me. I love them. Some women may live by the creed that happiness is enough leftovers in the refrigerator that you don't have to cook, but if I'm strange for liking leftovers, Leah is not the norm in the leftover department either. She prefers to have leftovers and not eat them. She prefers to repurpose them. She takes the idea of leftovers like they're a Quickfire challenge to the chefs on Top Chef, and in a half hour or so in front of the stove has created a totally new dish. Cooking Hacks by Leah, it should be a show.

There is one dish that she makes for me from time to time because it is one of my favorites. I love Leah's pot roast. She has never made it exactly the same way twice, so I have gotten to eat many different pot roasts over the years, and each has been better than anybody else's I've ever eaten. I won't eat pot roast from any other source any more, because I simply do not want t to be let down. Even though it's always a little different, Leah's is what pot roast should be and taste like. Every other roast just can't measure up.

She made one Sunday, and it  was awesome, as usual. I spent most of Monday looking forward to leftovers for dinner. When Leah said she was getting  dinner ready, I thought she was going to heat up the leftovers, and I got excited. A few minutes later I realized she was cooking. I almost got disappointed. I had been looking forward to the pot roast, but then I thought I can have them for lunch tomorrow. Still, I asked her what she was cooking. She answered that she had an idea to do something new with some of the pot roast leftovers. One of her experiments had begun. She told me, as she usually does, I'm not sure if it will be any good.

I was sure though. I never doubt her talent. Sometimes I wonder how she will make some combination of ingredients that I would never think to eat on my own good, but I never wonder if they will be good. And last night was no exception. The meal amazed me. She took one of my favorite meals and made it even better. Instead of my missing out on the leftovers I had been craving, I got a new dish, a new variation that has also been added to my list of favorites. Now I know that any time in the future that she makes a pot roast, there is a possibility that she will also make this later. That idea makes me doubly excited about the thought of pot roast.

Last night as I ate, the wonder of how she constantly amazes me in the kitchen is a gift, and a great example of an aspect of the talent and nature of God. God is so amazing that His leftovers are better than anything the world has to offer. And yet no two things He does are ever exactly the same. And He doesn't seem to care much for leftovers. Even though I would be perfectly happy with what He gave me yesterday, He always makes His mercy and blessings new. Even rereading His word can be a totally new and different experience, though  the ingredients (words) never change, the revelation to the taste buds of my spirit is new and fresh. It amazes me. The more I eat from the Master's table the more I am ruined for what anyone or anything else prepares. The world simply will disappoint, because even when He does things that I would never expect and wonder how  will this be good, when I receive it I realize yes, this is what life is supposed to be and taste like. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who puts his trust in Him - Psalm  34:8.

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