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Saturday, 25 October 2025

A Kitchen Poem

Sauted by ambitions
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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16 comments:

  1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade25 October 2025 at 21:58

    Ha ha, glad you have survived all that good cooking to write such delicious poems!

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade25 October 2025 at 22:00

      (Or perhaps, instead of 'survived,' I should say benefited from!)

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    2. vanderloost26 October 2025 at 09:22

      Yes, you are absolutely right. I did benefit from my experienced and overdrive.

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  2. Jim26 October 2025 at 19:46

    "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.

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    1. Jim26 October 2025 at 19:58

      Oh 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.

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    2. vanderloost26 October 2025 at 20:20

      Indian 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.

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  3. J Cosmo Newbery27 October 2025 at 00:13

    Keep the good recipes.

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  4. rallentanda27 October 2025 at 08:30

    I like all the culinary terms to describe your delicious life:)

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  5. Helen27 October 2025 at 08:32

    LOVE times ten your poem!!!!!

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  6. Marja29 October 2025 at 00:56

    That's a great recipe for a life Well written

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  7. vanderloost29 October 2025 at 03:39

    Thank you so much Marja

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  8. Butterfly.29 October 2025 at 15:21

    Love it . . .I am learning, finding myself, being more assertive and not holding back. Poem is so meaningful in a fun way.

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  9. vanderloost29 October 2025 at 19:45

    Thank you so much

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