Daily Deglaze

Cooking is definately relaxing for me, not the clean up but the cooking. I've got some kielbasa, onion, corn, mixed rice cooking together in some chicken broth. As I started the chopping then the sauteeing my mind began to wander...yes, my mind wanders quite a bit but its a theraputic wander. Before I deglazed the pan, with the chicken broth, the rice was beginning to stick to the pan and I thought about how our lives can become stuck from stress/chaos then we get frazzled and panicky. Some, like me, have a low "boiling" point. I don't multi-task well and I don't handle stress well. I begin to panic and become stuck like the rice. Now others have a much higher "boiling" point. Some people can be in a situation and be totally calm and think things through. Lets just say for people like me, we need people like that in our lives. As I began to deglaze the pan, I saw it as a stress reliever. It was relieving the rice from the pan, it was calming the rice down. I think sometimes we can allow ourselves no chicken broth, we think we can push through the heat and eventually we'll be done. But what we don't see is that we need the chicken broth to be done quicker and better. So deglaze and pour on the chicken broth!