Effort

This evening I made tomato pasta sauce made from (fresh) slightly elderly tomatoes. Hand made pasta. With sausage meat balls and melenzane. From first to last, prep took about 3 hours, and what with rolling and cutting the pasta, about half of that was hands on.

The meal took about 15 minutes to eat, it was delicious. Was it worth 3 hours of prep?

Definitely. – the work was its own reward. Bringing it all together, the sheer pleasure of labour, the luxury of having the time to create. Yes I like work, and it was satisfying and rewarding work. I could taste it.