Cooking by an Ex Undomesticated Unskilled Culinarian

Cooking as defined by Wikipedia is "The process of preparing food, often with the use of heat".
But  pre- marriage, forget cooking, I disliked the smell and touch of raw fish and cold meat.
Cooking in my purview was just frying eggs or making a cup of tea,
but post marriage, Cooking has turned into a therapeutic art for me.
You see, I was told, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach,
so in order to reserve a nice big room in my husband's heart, 
my culinary skills, I had to hurriedly develop.

And as time passed, I realized cooking is indeed a lot of fun,
If you venture into it with positivity, half the job is already done.
When you cook with joy, trouble free, 
your food, a beautiful sonnet, sings,
and if your family loves and relishes it,
more happiness and satisfaction, cooking always brings.

Cooking can also be abusive to the body and accidental,
but to your soul or health it's never detrimental.
Oh yes, the slicing and chopping of onions, 
they always make me cry,
and I always commit the faux pas of  putting a chilli powdered finger,
into a lensed eye.
Little splashes of hot oil make me jump and yelp, when I fry shrimp or legs of chicken,
and sometimes without realizing, I've burnt my favourite  " Super Chef" cooking mitten.

But then,... I think of the cooking gas calling me lovingly  " Come on baby light my fire",
which makes me fall in love with cooking all over again and never makes me tire
The lovely sound of the crackle of mustard and cumin seeds when you dunk them into hot oil,
the jiggy wiggy dance of eggs when you put them in water to boil.
The aromas of garlic, pepper and green chilli when you prepare a honey chilli fish,
add a bit of soya, ginger, vinegar and you get a really scrumptious dish.
The aromatic basmati rice which gives you a feeling of elation,
when each grain looks best, long and segregated, 
though they may not enjoy their separation.

The feeling of soft dough between your fingers which you knead for chapatis,
the softness of flour, chocolate, oil and eggs,
which you mix rapidly  for creating chocolate chip cookies.
The concoction of various herbs and spices and meats and vegetables,
the colours, the sights,  touch, the sizzles, the whistles,
makes cooking an art which I now love and find it most enjoyable!

I may not be a Jamie Oliver, a Sanjeev Kapoor, a Cordon Bleu chef or a Nigella Lawson,
but I've made a way to my husband's heart by enlarging his stomach ;)
that itself makes me, a very happy Culinarian!!