Imagine you are the parent of this child, you might tell Tommy that he needs to stop playing with his dinner and eat it, or you might laugh and give yourself a little linguini facial as well. Of course Tommy isn't taking a crack at your delicious dinner, he is after all, like two years old, and you DID give him a messy plate of spaghetti. If you think about it from a different angle, you might feel like giving up and playing with the food you cooked instead of eating it. Do you ever feel like this? Does your spaghetti/linguini ever turn out in such a mess you just want to cover your eyes with it? I've heard that cooking is supposed to be a relaxing and even religious experience, but most of the time I only find it to be frustrating (see below post). Cooking should feel something like this. You should feel rested and relaxed and proud of what you made and want to share that with others. Sometimes, it just doesn't happen that way. Sometimes we have to cover our eyes because the oozy goozy yucky mess we made scares us and if we can't see it then it doesn't exist, right?
I propose that frustrated foodies unite! Don't throw your spaghetti against the wall, it isn't garbage! We can fix it. Food can be saved. My mother and I have a saying about baking cakes, "If the cake looks terrible, just make double the frosting. No one will know the difference". Let's come back into the kitchen, take the towel, plate, handful of noodles, from our eyes and fix our food problems.
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