Cooking For Real

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

(In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful)

First of all, sorry if you mistakenly thought this post is about Sunny Anderson, Cooking For real, AFC channel. 

This post is about a person, someone, somebody who really and truly understand the importance of cooking. A person that I really know about. From the first time she opened her eyes till now. She has a perfect and wonderful mother, who is good in cooking. Everyday is like everyday in heaven. Her mom's cooks were always delicious even a simple dish - fried fish. Everyone who knows her mother would fall in love with the cooks. 

She was so lucky and grateful to have a mother like her. 

As she become a teen, people around her started to say that she would be a good cooker just like her mother. She determined that she will be a good cooker!

Learned to fry a fish at 9 years old, cook rice at 10, peeled onion and scalp at 6, making tempoyak at 12, and countless more to mention. She tried. 

Once she went to boarding school, away from home, no more cooking for her. Focusing on her study and other stuff. Came home, helping her mother as usual but a little less than before. Usually her mother would like to cook for her because she did not taste her mother cooks for a long time. After form 5, stayed at home meant everything to her. She made a to-do-list included cooking yet that was the least thing that she could do. 

Next she went to college, again, away from kitchen. Then, entered university, no cooking activities were allowed. She began to realize that her cooking skill has faded. 

Back at home, as usual, she really want to cook yet the opportunity was little. Helping her mother in the kitchen was a daily basis but she wants to cook for real. Yes, she did get the chance to cook when:

her mother is not at home. 

and of course the chances are too dim for her to really practice her cooking skill. She enjoyed every food that her mother cook for her but she worried that she does not have the capability to cook. Her mother always tell her that

A lady should know how to cook

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From her story, I believe that the only way for her to develop herself in cooking skill is by doing it herself, alone. 

She needs to have the freedom to cook whatever she wants. She must experiences the cooking by herself to be able to master the skill. Just like talking, eating, writing, walking, all we have to do by ourselves. Not just by reading it only. Plus, practices make perfect. At home, she could not do it for her mother will happily help her and cook for the family. So she needs to get out from the house, I mean, find a place to live on her own, independently. Plus, this is how she learned to develop herself, away from home. She still need her mother to guide, maybe she can call her mother to ask about this and that and do the cooking all by herself. Then, she might be able to expand and stretch her arms to cook without hesitate. 

And her dream to be just like her mother would be achieved. 

All the best to you, my closest friend. May He guides you n every single path that you take. May Allah bless..