For The Love Of Butter And Julia – A Love Story
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending a matinee movie with my good friend Donna Fox who is staying with me while her roommate recovers from the swine flu. So we decided that we would take in the flick Julie and Julia (the story about Julia Child told through the life of Julia Powell), since we both have the same ideals when it comes to the love of cooking, food and sharing it with others. But most of all our love for butter which we both admitted to putting on almost everything.
Julia Child was an amazing human being with a personality that I find very close to my own. It seems we share a great deal in common and I feel closer to her than I ever did growing up. I did have the opportunity of watching her cooking show when a television was present which for me growing up in Trinidad was a difficult thing but her presence did have a huge effect on my own style of cooking. One of the things that stuck with me the times I did get the opportunity to watch her was the comment “everything taste better with butter”. Hell yes it does!
When growing up everyone I knew cooked with oil, I always used butter. I would stew my chicken using butter and sugar instead of oil plus adding a tablespoon or so at the end for a beautiful creamy taste… mmmmm. Or, in my split peas soup, boil corn, on top my baked meats or fish, in my peas or bean, yes in almost everything. Funny thing was that no one ever figured out why I became the best cook in the family… simply using butter, usually hardly any sodium and using herbs growing right in my yard. They all figured that butter was the enemy and it would make you fat. UNTRUE!!!
With the movie Julie and Julia what even striked me as amazing is the love and patience that their spouses provided, something I pray to have from the man I spend the rest of my life with. I could only imagine the things I could cook up supported by the amazing love of my man. For love is the essence of our cooking creativity. Love allows us to bring smiles, joy and happiness to faces of the people that eat our meals.
When love is lacking in our world our appetites and our hearts are in turmoil preventing us from experiencing that warmth that courses through your body. I guess that is why it had been so hard for me to really cook and share this year with you. I had a hard time connecting with love. Now, even though there isn’t a man present as of yet 
, I have found my passion again and my love for cooking is truly infinite.
So, the movie is ending and I look over at Donna and see the tears in her eyes while wiping the tears from mine with my butter plastered napkin and we both started laughing. We left the movie theater and headed to the supermarket where we picked up produce for Donna’s Chicken Cacciatore. We both sat in my living room later on that evening eating a wonderful, delicious dinner, drinking a glass of cab watching the Wedding Singer. A splendid end to a spectacular day!
Today I ask that you share your love with someone special. Cook for your son, daughter, spouse, partner, friend, sister, brother, mother, father or even a stranger a meal infused with your love. Believe me they will feel it and pass it on to others.
I want to bring back the love and togetherness! Will you join me doing so?
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Stacy, you write
“Today I ask that you share your love with someone special. Cook for your son, daughter, spouse, partner, friend, sister, brother, mother, father or even a stranger a meal infused with your love”
and I agree… I’d like to add another option…
Cook for yourself.
So many of us get busy and never bother to take the time and effort to shop for, create and enjoy a meal just for us alone. “I hate cooking for one” is what people usually say.
I love cooking for just myself. I can make exactly what I want, exactly how I want it. With the right amount of salt or hot sauce… as many veggies or as little meat. It’s one of the few times that I ever do anything that’s entirely 100% for ME. (even showering is more for the pleasure of the people around me
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What better way to tell yourself you love you than to cook your favorite meal. While doing so listen to music that brings you to your happpy place and just think over and over in your mind. “I love me, I’m worth it”
And I agree, yesterday was perfect. Thanks for being such an amazing friend.
Oh, and… What’s for dinner?
Don’t even get me started on butter. lol. It’s crazy how butter has been attacked because it is such a health food. It contains all the nutrition of raw whole milk which (again, don’t get me started) is a lot.
Even the ancient Greeks and Romans used butter for medicine. It heals bad joints, nerves and brings emotions of happiness and contentment. The Egyptians used it as a dressing for their hair and in lovemaking
I haven’t tried that one…lol But all cultures used it as a skin moisturizer as well.