Sharing the blame
blame the oven blame the eggs blame the milk blame the recipe blame the sugar before cursing the oven whipping the eggs ditching the milk blotting the recipe spilling the sugar calling the cook who blames the oven blames the eggs blames the milk blames the sugar blames the recipe after kicking the oven smashing […]
War recipes
The bruise of the war blue-black as hedgerow jam, takes time to heal. Splinters like blackberry thorns fester and ache. Bombs fractured us three even though we only saw them through your eyes. Our father, merchant seaman who rose in and out of the sea. The lawn was earthed up flowers gone, carrots in and […]
Spice at a price
Spice at a price A dash of something hot intensifies the flavour, transforms everyday life into an exotic experience. Kokomo! Fast food to gourmet fare, with indigestion to follow.
My Mother Makes Apple-dappy
My Mother Makes Apple-dappy She rolls the dough to an inch-thick slab, covers it with milk-white Bramley chunks, smothers it in spice and Demerara, cuts it into coiled sections, lays them in the baking dish. Then she soaks it all in golden melt of honey, lemon, butter. Sets the dish to bake. Her kitchen fills […]
Another Reason Why I Don’t Cook
after Billy Collins The TV will not stop baking. It is baking one loaf after another until, even without switching on, I think the set will overheat. The TV will not stop baking. I pull out all the plugs and sign up to a meat-only diet but I can still smell celebrities, baking, baking, baking […]
Day 18. Recipes
Do you have a favourite recipe? Your granddad’s duck soup maybe. Your auntie’s bread pudding. Here’s John Watson with ‘A recipe for sea water’: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/recipe-sea-water Recipes.