A thought on Flight

#Poetry #Flight #writeclub Photo by Sam Willis on Pexels.com like a host of enthusiastic raindrops passing the window with colour like an apple and pear racing to reach the grass below like that fruit falling into a copper pan and resting on a pie crust like a host of travelling blossoms moved along by the …

Peach Pudding

#Napowrimo #peach #fruit #poem #response Peach, Sliced – by Inky A response to Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm by Carl Phillips you can read his poem Here Perhaps the idea of eating a bruised peach after its fell headlong towards the ground could be considered hell on earth to a fruit connoisseur Put in a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Flipped

#Pancakes #Pancakeday #Shrovetuesday Tuesday 25th February 2020 For years, they’ve been doing this launching a layer of thinly cooked batter into the air with precision and height – could you say it was perfect ? maybe – but that all comes from the entry of the pancake – back into the pan drizzle of lemon …

Bubble and Squeak

#fowc #food #christmas #leftovers Photo by Keegan Evans on Pexels.com 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 …

Tomato

#Napowrimo, #Blogging101, #Fruit, #Tomato, #Soup, #Sauce, #Plant, #Leaves, #Roots, #Pasta, #Pizza That tin you’re opening did you know? That soup or sauce took time to grow Grown from plants, with heritage of state Moneypenny and Windsor – varieties on plate Seasoned and cooked up by chef in a pan Creating a lunch tasty to plan …