There were definitely a few that really excited me as I thought of them. Camping for sure. I just love that feeling of being outdoors when it starts to feel like you just live there! Cooking over a fire, using the bare essentials and you are totally surrounded by nature. I just love it! I love living in the beautiful California desert, my surroundings comfort me. The smells, the colors in the sky, the landscape... Knowing the people I buy my food from kinda surprised me as I wrote it. It makes so much sense though! Seeing the care and pride these people carry with them and their product. I appreciate this so much. I love the feeling of cooking and it wouldn't be the same if the food I was buying didn't come from the same source. Every day when I use my cutting board to chop fruits and vegetables I appreciate them and I think about where they came from. It makes me smile. When I break up walnuts to use in baking I think of my friend Marco who sells them at the Farmers Market who I can never see without talking to for less than five minutes. When I roll out dough for tortillas, I feel the love going in them and I thoughtfully smile because I no longer buy tortillas at the store. When I smell bread cooking I don't get impatient waiting. I take a deep breath and appreciate the process of making bread and love that I buy it at the store less and less these days. My kitchen, food, and the outdoors bring me a lot of comfort and I love that!
