“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon
or not at all.”

While it may seem a stretch to put a recipe on a site about separation and divorce, I make the  connection.

For me cooking for my children and having them walk into a house with a good smell- something homemade ready for them- a homemade soup after school, a banana  bread  or a roast chicken   and mash potatoes dinner -has always felt like an expression of  love and comfort .

When I first separated this was even more important-   comfort  came from good warm food made with love. It is always surprising how far these simple things go.

Food is something I am passionate about – I like to think about it, talk about it and participate in it.  I remember eating melba toast once on a diet 20 years ago and thinking- this tastes like death.

This sums it up pretty well

      “I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all  I’ve lost is two weeks. “

Totie Fields

but -at the same time if you want to avoid dieting-