ode to a pie

#food #pie #meat #chips

Brought together by the marvel of pastry

cubes of beef sit with onions, tomato and carrot

where the other ingredients

join in union to coat the cubes

in a rich sauce

chef wonders, what to have –

with this culinary masterpiece

searching the larder cupboards to

deliver something that goes well with the content

Usual bottles of Red or Brown – sit in wait

of course if the unpeeled spuds

turn to mash instead of chips –

then the oxo cubes win –

particularly if there’s an onion involved

but in the corner of the cupboard

the curry sauce and vinegar wait

for the kids to ask for chips.