"Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon....."
I'm probably the last person on earth to receive a chain email called "Instructions for Life from the Dalai Lama". Ahem. Looks like it's NOT really from the Dalai Lama.
Anyway, the whimsical last line of a set of rather solemn instructions is "Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon." I like it, regardless of who really wrote it.
So here's to all of us who try new recipes and ingredients, measure by handfuls and share our love and fun!
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19 Comments:
Love it!!!!!!
finsbigfan at 6:10PM on 08/14/08
I always delete those emails - I thought the last line promised worse than death and dandruff (maybe not in that order) if you didn't forward.
I believe I do approach love and cooking with reckless abandon, passion, and creativity. I'll raise a glass to that with all my SE friends!!!
Nice find Bue Iris and thanks for sharing! :-D
PerkyMac at 6:52PM on 08/14/08
I am as reckless as they come! I will join Perky in raising a glass. Here's to you my SE friends!! Thank you Blue Iris. It was a nice treat after the day I have had. ;-O
izatryt at 8:27PM on 08/14/08
Cheers!
PeanutButter at 10:23PM on 08/14/08
here here!!!! love it!!!
MadelynRodriguez at 10:37PM on 08/14/08
It sounds like a remadeDesiderata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata
I have seen lots of those. Dance like no one is watching, Love like it is your last day. Pop mortin like you have no liver.
JerzeeTomato at 2:48AM on 08/15/08
Despite its muddy origin - still a great quote for foodies! Hear, hear!
therealchiffonade at 5:05AM on 08/15/08
"With reckless abandon" is the ONLY way to approach both, as far as I'm concerned.
PumpkinBear at 6:06AM on 08/15/08
...in bed.
Oops, wrong column. This isn't the fortune cookie section, is it?
Cassaendra at 7:28AM on 08/15/08
@ Cassaendra LMAOOOOO I thought the same thing!
Iris thank you for sharing that whoever and however it came about!
We all take things to seriously sometimes, so lighten up and laugh at yourself. I have a print attached to my mirror of a cat falling off a windowsill with the saying,
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves,
For we shall never cease to be amused!
words to live by ;-)
huneybumper at 7:44AM on 08/15/08
Love that! .... So true, and the ONLY way to go.
Brownie at 7:56AM on 08/15/08
@Cass ~ Thanks for helping me get the day started with a big laugh!
izatryt at 8:40AM on 08/15/08
I have a plaque on the wall in my kitchen that says exactly that. I put it there to day I moved in with my now husband!
Maureen at 11:42AM on 08/15/08
@BlueIris...I've been looking for a new quote for my kitchen chalkboard....thanks for helping me find it!
@Cass....hehehe...thanks for the smile this morning.... :-)
mepolo at 11:42AM on 08/15/08
@Cass - thanks for the laugh, I needed it!:-)
@all - raising my glass here too! (well, it's 5 o'clock somewhere...or as Jerzee said, "...like you have no liver":-))
brooke29 at 11:48AM on 08/15/08
hey Blue Iris,
A friend of mine passed away recently and his family posted on a website a list that he wrote on a napkin in a cafe entitled "Instructions for Life". Some of the instructions were quotes, and some were his own so it's possible that it's not the same list you receieved... but I find it odd that the last instruction on his list is exactly the last instruction on your list.
Would you mind forwarding me the e-mail you got? My address is chiqlette@hotmail.com, and if in fact this is the list I bet his family would be absolutely tickled to know that its affecting people that he never met! Thanks a bunch, it would mean a lot.
islandchild at 11:46AM on 08/17/08
My beer can is raised in a prost.
pjracz10 at 4:11PM on 08/19/08
raising my chocolate milkshake to ya'll!
(I'm at work)
bisbee at 4:16PM on 08/19/08
Cheers!
I think it may be a twist on this:
"Cooking is like love...
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne
MrMouse at 8:35PM on 08/21/08