Artemis, Author at Authentic Macaronia

How do you cook fish-soup?

By Artemis • RECIPES, SOUP, FISH

How do you cook fish-soup?

The fish-soup I am familiar with is the one that my mother and grandmother are cooking. Different options of fish, according to the period …
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1 year ago

Sculptors of our own life

By Artemis • COOKING LOVE STORY

We all start as girls and boys.

Why girl and boy? Dreams to conquer the world in our own extraordinary way. Princesses and princes. Masters of the world and beyond.

1 year ago

Life experiences, with cooking

By Artemis • COOKING LOVE STORY

The Challenge Series was a start.

I wasn’t sure of your response…. I can happily state that it was really loving! Cooking Love Stories that came to surface and inspired …
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2 years ago

The jungle meal – Lomo Saltado

By Artemis • COOKING LOVE STORY

Challenge Series – Challenge #1

The jungle meal came up from the Challenge #1 of the Challenge series that we started in Cooking Love Story.

And that was a spectacular opening.

The Challenge was for Tolee. And he accepted it.
We tried to make him see cooking from a different perspective.
And he did! More than we could all imagine.

Starting point: a beautiful memory

A beautiful memory of his life that some kind of cooking was involved, was asked.
He found it.
He asked Maria’s help, Maria is Tolee’s wife. As the memory involved also Maria.
It was a meal prepared by Maria and Soledad a Peruvian woman in the jungle of Peru on their honeymoon trip 9 years ago.

The feedback of this challenge was not only interesting but also open-minding for us all.

Questions occurred.
Questions answered.

Are YOU ready for a Cooking Love Story challenge?

Cooking together in the kitchen

That was tricky.
As Maria is the cook of the house, a new dynamic appeared.
Tolee had to be part of this process too.

Maria knows how to cook, Tolee does not.
Maria appeared to be the boss of the kitchen and Tolee the child that always seeks for answers. He does not take anything for granted.
Maria seems to be inpatient and realizes it. She can do better, she is sure of that.
She understood that Tolee can love this whole cooking process. And she is so happy about this.
But in his own way. He needs simple, specific, accurate guidance and justified answers.
He needs a coach, not a boss.
She has to learn to be a coach.
He wants to learn and be creative, not just executing.
He needs to act at his own pace.
They need to cooperate.

Yes, cooking can be a love story, even if we did not think of it in that way.

Many reflections came up, so many similarities in their own lives that they didn’t realize up to now.
Such a big lesson for us all.

It is just a meal

A great memory was shared with their 2 daughters. Their parents’ honeymoon.
They helped in the process, they also gave a name to this tasty and challenging meal.
“The jungle meal”, ouaou!

A family co-operating in a new field and feeling the benefit of it.

I really do not want to say more.
That was far beyond my expectations.
Thank you Tolee, Maria, Anastasia, and Arianna.

That was not just a meal.
It was a Cooking Love Story.

2 years ago

The Challenge Series

By Artemis • COOKING LOVE STORY

The Challenge Series was a real challenge for me also!

That was a challenge and still is! I said that Challenge #1, in our Facebook group – Cooking Love Story, …
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2 years ago

Quick & Easy Recipes

By Artemis • COOKING LOVE STORY

Quick & Easy Recipes

If we consider our daily rhythms, we will realize that these two words QUICK & EASY, are being used all the time. And maybe misinterpreted. We …
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