What is Recipe for a Good Life?

My husband and I love watching baking shows. One of our favorites to watch together is The Great British Baking Show. Each week, the participants adjust based on feedback, implement a new strategy that will result in a dish they'll be proud to present, and do their best to predict what the judges will enjoy.

Contestants will do spectacularly some weeks, barely hang on to their position in the game some weeks, and eventually most fall to the bottom of the pile and have to go home.

When conditions are harsh--like when they are asked to make an ice cream cake inside a tent in the middle of summer, you wonder how anyone will pull it off. You cheer on the winners and your heart hurts for the ones who worked so hard only to have their cake not set right and ooze out of the cake pan.

What a metaphor for life!

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I have been looking for a recipe. Not for Baked Alaska or Yorkshire Puddings.

The recipe for a good life.

We all have a recipe that we've been working on but much like the recipes in The Great British Baking Show, we have to adjust for the circumstances around us. The day is too hot, we need to cool our dough in the refrigerator. If we have a short time for things to set, we need a little agar agar.

There are many ingredients to a good life. We all need them in varying amounts.

My desire is to present to you the ingredients like a well-curated kitchen so you can see what ingredients you need a bit more of in your recipe for a good life.