Tag Archives: food

b buttermilk syrup – March 31

3.31.2017 b buttermilk syrup and home-made pancakes take me right on down the primrose path.   oh tip me over and drop another one upon me. mother mother I’m a-coming home.   buttermilk smilings and homewheat buckcakes, as if my … Continue reading

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squeezing – August 27

8.27.2016 lemon pulp vessels burst   sweet tart droplets fill   delight, cake, zest, with wonder. —————–

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a spoon or two – August 12

8.12.2016 a spoon or two iced nice cream   pecan, ‘nilla, strawberry blue   gimme, gimme all that scene   never too old for chocolate too. ———————–

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smoked brisket – July 1

7.1.2016 smoked brisket and a beer, settings for two to talk through tricky stuff that edges out and back to a relationship. ————–

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red kettle – April 4

4.4.16 red kettle, red kettle whistle us home tea leaves and chamomile set on to drone   keen us and calm us and keep our throats clean with mother and dainties all loverly steam. ———————-

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cookie baking hands – September 2

9.1.2015 cookie baking hands enact love with spoons. ——————-

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small tangible pleasures – May 22

5.22.2015 slice eggplant and quarter ditto sweet onion, then bask in the aromas   minute decisions   garlic, shitake mushroom, salt, pepper, olive oil   whatever else feels like it might work in nicely   small tangible pleasures on the … Continue reading

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delicate intensity – April 19

4.18.2015 the chiseled, tattooed, pony-tailed chef places paper thin wafers of parsnip onto stone platters in patterns of three   the tweezers pluck each from his hand as if from fairy dust with delicate intensity.   then a dot of … Continue reading

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first-world problem – August 27

8.27.2014 worst dinner out terrible service in an expensive setting. slow, graceless uncomfortable and uncaring   but a first-world problem. while people starve who would wait half a day for even a nibble   chalk it up. —————————-  

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jalapeno poppers – August 1

8.1.2014 jalapeno poppers smack our taste buds into shock kicking off an evening with friends   good to have the low spot early so that it’s all uphill from there. ————————-

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