Tag: Cooking

Backwoods Stew

#Scouts #Cubs #Beavers #Supper

The ingredients were simple enough,

Taters in the embers of some dying beechwood

Corned beef, Some Carrots and a very big onion

Butter for frying, and some stock cubes for flavour

The Metallic billy can protected by the finest washing liquid

as flames licked the sides of the can

As the potatoes softened, the onions went see-through

hiding amongst the beef

and as the bubbles rose bringing the feast together

chef prepared his serving spoons – as it was served in tin mugs

in the other can ? usually tea but not that night

as chocolate buns were served for afters – with hot cocoa.

Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Ventures all headed for bed after Campfire – with Smiles on their faces.

They said “Ban Soap at Camp”….but this rule didn’t apply to the cookware….as the recepticles enjoyed a dip in the bubbliest of alfresco baths and a scrub getting rid of charcoaled washing liquid

Tags Beavers, Buns, Camping, Carrot, Chocolate, Cocoa, Cooking, Corned Beef, Cubs, mugs, Onion, Outdoors, potatoes, Scouting, Scouts, Tea, Tin, Tins, Vegetables

Poetry

Mango Tango

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 2 Jun 2020
1 Comment on Mango Tango

Salford 2nd June

#CYW #Mangotango

Mix it up a little, make your taste buds come

Alive with each nibble, as you mix up

Nourishing mango with fish meats or vegetables

Giving the dish a most unique flavour

Over the heat and tang of the spices

Tags Cooking, CYW, Heat, Mango, mangotango, Spices, Tang, Tastebuds

Acrostic Cooking Food Home

Ode to a fish slice

Salford, 17th May 2020

The latest challenge to members of the write club

Write a poem on a kitchen utensil……i did mine on a fish slice

Oh noble utensil

Rescuer of the friday night supper

As the chips cook under the lights under the grill

Note as you look after your charge

Guiding it around so its batter armour doesn’t break

Even your fellow utensils on the range know – this takes patience.

And when its time for the king of the cod to

Meet up with his army of

Brilliantly browned potatoes

Every precaution is taken to

Rest his majesty into the protection of his soldiers

Tags acrostic, Battered, Chips, Cod, Cooking, Fish, Home, Kitchen, Lockdown poems, Pan, Slice, Utensil, writeclub

Poetry

Orchestrate

#Wordpress Prompts #Orchestrate

10th April 2020

The pan – the arena

for potatoes carrots and cabbage

to star in a theatrical number with the humble tomato

dancing around in a pool of delicious stock

releasing flavours and aromas into the air

stock cubes and herbs await stage left

but their arrival has to be timed right

as the vegetables dance and dive around

developing taste in the pan

when all is ready – the final act….

diving headlong into the porcelain soup dish

where a brown bread cob is waiting.

Tags Aromas, Bowl, Bread, Cooking, Cubes, Dance, dish, dive, Flavours, Herbs, Napowrimo, orchestrate, Pan, Soup, stew, Stock, Taste, Vegetables, wordpress prompts

Poetry

Combine

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 9 Mar 2020
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#Fowc #Combine

I. Baking

Take your favourite root vegetable

add it with some fat, flour, and a sugar for sweetness

put some additional berries or nuts

stir in, and stick in the oven

when ready – retrieve – cut up

and enjoy

II. Art

Trying to get the colour of

flowers in the garden

isn’t that hard

dropping some red with blue, or blue with yellow,

produces some lovely colour for those blackberries

you’re capturing in that pot

III. Chemistry

Creating new substances from items in the lab

has to be done with care

elements coming together in glass beakers

make colourful mixes , sometimes with

intense reactions –

so it makes sense to use a bit of forward planning

take care with those acids and alkalis and look out at

reactions – don’t forget your gloves and goggles

you’ll be grateful you wore them if the mixes turn violent

IV. Crops

pointing headwards in the sky

threshed and processed for the best yield

then sent to the mill to meet the stones

crushing them down for bread flour

or maybe even cornflakes

Tags Baking, Chemicals, chemistry, combine, Cooking, Elements, Food, fowc, Fruit, ingredients, Nuts, Painting, paints, Vegetables

Food Poetry

Ode to a Crispy Fish

Salford, 6th March 2020

Oh, what a wondrous life you must have led

swimming up and down the waters of the British isles

caught in the sailors net and frozen

before meeting a factory bandsaw

Brought back to life in the kitchen by butter and oil

dressed in lemon , dill and breadcrumbs

or even the chefs special batter

sharing a spot with potatoes and peas

roasted mashed or fried ?

while escapees swim free for the day

you put a smile on the customers face

as you’re devoured alongside your side platters

with a drop of tartar sauce

Tags Caught, Cooked, Cooking, dressed, Fish, fried, Ode, Pan, Peas, Poetry, potatoes, Tartar Sauce

Food

Fish and Chips – Kind Of

fish in parsley sauce – impressionist by inky.

The noble fish sat on my plate

hadn’t had a battering

it had been enjoying a bath like Cleopatra

getting all warm and tasty

Upon leaving the path it was

wrapped up in a coat of green

to enhance its wonderful flavour

and rested on a bed of buttery potato

And while it lay there in on the plate

lying in its luxury

a cohort of peas stood on a potato ridge

to keep it safe from wondering eyes

But alas all were devoured

in the haze of white and green

grappled apart by trident and sword

by the chef and his guests

Tags Bed, Butter, Chips, Cooking, Eating, Fish, Food, Fork, Green, Knife, Mash, Milk, Parsley, Peas, Plate, Poached, Poetry, Potato, Sauce, Sword, Trident

Acrostic Cooking Food Pleasures Poetry

Spaghetti

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 3 Feb 2020
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Salford 3rd February 2020

#food #acrostic #spaghetti #bolognaise

Spaghetti : Image from stock art created by Inky Using Painter Essentials 7

Sent headlong into the boiling water

Pasta long and thin took a bit of a hot bath

As it did, the concoction it was being served with

Gradually came together, as minced beef met up in a

Hot tomato jacuzzi with onion , carrot and mushroom

Eventually,

Turned out onto plates and sauce and pasta

Twirled together round a trident aided by a spoon

Italian cuisine turned out on Mancunian plates

Tags acrostic, Beef, Carrot, Cooking, cuisine, dish, Eating, Italian, Mushroom, Onion, Plates, Poetry, spaghetti, Tomato

Colours Poetry

Eggplant

Post author By inkdropk
Post date 4 Jan 2020
1 Comment on Eggplant

4th January 2020

Everyone our way knows it as an aubergine

grilled and served up with

grated cheese and tomato

purple tinge to its black skin – never known once grilled

leaping to life in any greek dish

and lipsmackingly wonderful on a summers day

note though – best served with oil and herbs

tastes wonderful with a drop of house red

Tags acrostic, Aubergine, cheese, Cooking, CYW, eggplant, Greek, Herbs, Oil, Poetry, Red, Tomato, wine

Acrostic Christmas Festive Food Memories

Bubble and Squeak

#fowc #food #christmas #leftovers

Salford, 26th December 2019

By the time the pans were in the sink

undertakings of the Christmas leftovers were being sorted out

bird of the day stripped down to its carcass and

boxed up – and placed in the refridgerator

like the vegetables left behind from the feast

everyone knew what was for tomorrows dinner

Sizzle – went the pan – as meat and vegetables combined

quickly in motion with the aid of a bit of oil and butter

unlike the meal before it – this had a flavour all of its own

encompassing all its ingredients and perhaps one or two more

as the smell of the concoction – drifted on the cold winter air – leaving the

kitchen and wafting under the noses of everyone nearby

Tags acrostic, Bubble, Christmas, Cooking, Festive, Food, fowc, ingredients, Leftovers, Meat, Pan, Sizzle, Squeak, Vegetables