Marinated in dreams
Slow cooked by experience
Spiced up by hope
Cut and dried at times
Chopped and churned often
Bleached and blanched
Fried on high flame of expectations
Baked sometimes over baked
Grilled and microwaved
I have lived life on my own terms that's for sure
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Ha ha, glad you have survived all that good cooking to write such delicious poems!
ReplyDelete(Or perhaps, instead of 'survived,' I should say benefited from!)
DeleteYes, you are absolutely right. I did benefit from my experienced and overdrive.
Delete"Bleached and blanched" I'm not sure are in my cookbook. My favorite to cook is an "Egg, ham, and cheese on toasted brown bread." I have bread slice square size cooking dishes for the egg to be cooked in the microwave. Vegetable oil the dish bottom, with the egg brocken and stired like for scrambled, and cook 99 seconds at 60% power. Be sure to cover because the eggs cooking sometimes pops. We generally eat these in the evening with a cup of hot chocolate. No nasty frying pan to wash either.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, since I broke one of my dishes I found a small round one works about as good. I put ketchup or BBQ sauce on mine. And Mrs J eats hers open, only one slice of bread. We also salt and pepper the cooked egg.
DeleteIndian style of cooking does not go with microwave. We cook on gas stoves. It involves boiling when we are cooking rice especially and destarching. The curries are spicy, marination and frying included. Grill, roast, saute are modern concepts for us though we are fond of barbeques while eating out.
DeleteKeep the good recipes.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much 🙏
DeleteI like all the culinary terms to describe your delicious life:)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Rall
DeleteLOVE times ten your poem!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Helen
DeleteThat's a great recipe for a life Well written
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Marja
ReplyDeleteLove it . . .I am learning, finding myself, being more assertive and not holding back. Poem is so meaningful in a fun way.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much
ReplyDeleteI particularly like the "marinated in dreams," as I can imagine that marinating like always thinking about your dreams but doing nothing. Just sitting in the marinate, stewing as it were.
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