If you’re not familiar, the KISS principle stands for Keep It Simple, Stupid. I love it. I’ve used it with students (though I change the last “S” to stand for “Students”!), friends, family… pets. 🙂
Today was a challenging day for me. First day of school.
The KISS principle echoed in my mind.
Very little was simple. It was all complicated. VERY complicated. It all went pear-shaped, as they say.
And the week has only just begun!
Today’s truth is about the importance of keeping things simple. Like the soup I made tonight. 7 ingredients — pretty dang basic for a soup. But wow does that apple and cabbage taste well together. And how would you know that, if you’d also added a potato and some carrots and maybe a turnip or some Parmesan? You’d have lost the plot… and had a complicated soup with very yawn-able flavour.
(Sidebar: if there is one thing I’m learning while leafing through The Flavour Thesaurus, it’s that simple pairings bring out the most intense flavours. Like character foils in a novel — it’s so ingeniously beautiful!)
Signing off… in an effort to keep things a wee bit simpler.
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