Butter, flour, salt and a few other things. Flour floats in air backlit by sunlight. A wooden spoon works and whirls, the world turns. Simple ingredients into simple food – biscuits, hot, fluffy.
Homegrown tomatoes, basil, oregano and a few other things. First Tomato Soup, solid recipe, but given my penchant for novelty, no two batches are alike. Consternation but no complaint from my sons. My thinking that food should be responsive to time, mood, need.
A large ceramic bowl, a common long-handled wooden spoon. The cauldron to hold, conjure, and feed a world. The wooden wand to transform and beckon the gift forward. Cooking is not just chemistry, it is alchemy.
Shouldn't...but Do 
Yummi…and alchemy it is. 🙂