Stewing

Sometimes you just keep stirring the pot and tasting. A bit more pepper. A little chocolate. Some Zatarain's always helps.

In lieu of a finished entree, an appetizer courtesy of Rainer Maria Rilke:

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."