Have you ever had to make something for an occasion when you really were not in the mood? Sometimes you just don’t feel like cooking. Especially when you were looking forward to some well deserved lazy time. There is power in your energy when you’re cooking. In Like Water for Chocolate, Tita made it clear that if she wasn’t feeling it, no one else would either! When you cook begrudgingly, it’s not so fun. We have our own ways to make something fast when we’re not up to it. Here are two: pick something that works at room temperature or chilled and make sure it can be made ahead of time. That means you can get it ready hours, if not a day or two even, before the occasion, pop it in the fridge and move on with your life. There’s nothing we love more than that.
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