I love cooking. I always have and I really still do. When I was little I was also fascinated by all of the tools in the kitchen. I distinctly remember one time when my daddy was cooking and I was rummaging through the drawer with all of the various kitchen utensils. I remember I picked up one that looked like a little spikey wooden hammer and looked up at Daddy and said, "Daddy, what is this for?" He smiled and tapped it against his hand thoughtfully, "This is for making meat taste better." That puzzled me. How could a weird hammer make meat taste better? Daddy told me that when meat was tender, it was tastier. He explained that you had to beat the meat up to make that happen. The other day, I heard my pastor speak on tenderheartedness in the Christian walk. This got me thinking about this memory and another conversation I had with my dad about meat. He once told me that the younger an animal is, the more tender and ta...
