First, it is the second day that I am home sick. I didn't upload anything yesterday as I ended up sleeping for 17 hours!!! I hope that today is the final day of this crud and I can resume my normal life!
I had hoped to get more progress in with the #Unbroken book, but due to my crazy sleep schedule, I did not get as far as I would have liked. :-(
But today's video will update you on where I have made it and introduces a new addition to my #PopSugarReadingChallenge2018 journey! I also shared a #craft with you for my recent #PockeLetter Swap for #Valentine's day, so I hope you enjoy!
Now, if you made it through the video you will have heard me mention a #SmartPan "kitchen gadget" that I saw on a "5 kitchen Tools You Must Have #01" video by @Tech Punch. I wanted to take a moment to get on a soap box about how ridiculous this "gadget" seems to me!
Cooking should be organic, natural, instinctual experience that brings joy and happy memories to life. The "Smart Pan" tool "syncs" to your smart phone and measures your ingredients, tracks your cook time, and "helps" you cook through a recipe. What has this world come to!? I remember learning to cook and bake with my great-grandmother, my grandma, and my step-dad. One memory I specifically have is making Italian Easter bread and I panicked because my dad wasn't measuring the flour out perfectly for the bread! I was so upset that I actually started to cry! Well, turns out, that cooking is a lot of "eh, a little this, a little that, a dash of this, a pinch of that" and going with your instincts. I began using recipes more as blueprints and guidelines than hard fast rules that one must abide. Today, I hardly use a recipe unless it is something that I haven't tried before. Even with new recipes I usually end up tweaking something here and there to taste or preference. How would I have learned to use these skills, go with instinct, know a rough estimate off the top of my head when chicken should be about cooked through, had I used one of these smart pans!?
It takes the intrinsic beauty out of cooking and you no longer get to feel, taste, smell, experience the art of creation. I for one, definitely do not, and never will, need one of these gadgets!
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