Kelise's Culinary Acquisitions

I have here a some well-hidden secrets of the trade. How you can make food tastier with just a few tricks:

1. If is it pizza, cut it into squares. Squares always taste better than triangles.

2. If you can eat it using your hands, DO IT. Eating with your hands makes food taste better too. Messy is fun, no ifs, ands, or buts!

3. If it changes your mouth a different color that it a high culinary compliment! Example, who doesn’t like blue raspberry ring pops?

4. Add extra of everything. Mac and cheese needs to be extra cheesy. Brownies should be extra/double/triple chocolate. Orange juice extra pulp. If you’re running better go for the gold!

5. Give your cooking creation a special name. I used to collect blackberries and raspberries and fill them with sugar and call them fairy tea cups.

6. Breakfast for dinner. I guarantee that the same pancakes will taste better at 6:00pm instead of 8:00am!

7. This one may surprise you, but…wear silly or crazy clothes. In the middle of winter dress for a Hawaiian luau. Mid-summer wear last year’s Halloween outfit. Dress up and make it a special candlelit dinner at home.  (Candlelight makes food taste better!) This makes a regular meal into food with a purpose!

8. If you can, make the food art. A dash of green parsley, some blueberries or red strawberries? Food shouldn’t just be fun to eat, but fun to make too. A little dash of color could go a long way into making it more yummy!

9. Share your food. (Here’s a tip I’ve gotten from my travels abroad.) Eating should be a communal activity. In Thailand putting some of your food on someone else’s plate is caring for them. Don’t worry too much about germs if you’re with family. Serve each other and let yourself be served.

10. Play with your food. (Okay, I really just wanted to write that rule to be a rebel!) If you do some of the previous things, like dress up, use candles, make your food an art and eat with your hands, well, then eating becomes fun! And anything eaten during laughter is sure to taste extraordinary!

And now, the final secret of them all, and the most important. What do all of these secrets have in common? They take something ordinary, and with a simple trick, make it extraordinary and special. And that makes everything taste better. Food and eating should be fun.