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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2007-12-16 05:56 AM

I like the wind when she's like this
she flirts my hair like confetti
not the kind of little specks
the kind that is fresh pasta freed
into the birth of oily roil
fattened nearly instantly
into tubes of spaghetti
in the drainer of the sieve--
it's
inspirational, it is.

I like to rinse it with a kiss
of basil water. Olives in
my mouth caressing
that rough seed
washing salt
in chianti
perfectly offset to sweet
by the simple poetry
of onions dancing in the sweat
as garlic liquifies and sets
stuck to wooden swoons and spoons
by these rituals of whet
in the virtues of the blest
"Madonna, Mamma, Mi-O"

Pesto doused with vinagrette
is rapids rushed upon the tongue
breaded veal in tenderlets
is timed to prime and served while young
mushrooms splash slow simmering
so they will dash the shimmering
white moon halves of tendering
steaming tease of your palette.
Onion rolls (not ready yet)
I added chunks of cheddar that
should ease the pain of pepperjack
I could not resist...

"Oh, so la mi ohhhhhhhh!!!"
(Are you pained by my solo?)
I strike-the-pose-of-grief.
I got sauce on my sleeve-o,
I am terribly tweed, so
it won't ...matter...at all...."

"NO"

"It won't matter...at --- ALL!"

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

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1 posted 2007-12-16 06:34 AM

I loved the way you entered your kitchen and your poem!

I never watch cooking programs on TV for various permanent and temporary reasons, but this was an absolute delight (especially the mushrooms - my favourite food above all else - even chocolates filled with coffee cream - if I could choose only 1 food to eat for the rest of my life, it would be mushrooms - my taste buds, vote them the ultimate experience).

It seems such a waste that you aren't tutoring dozens of classes of young (and old) poets a week in writing brilliant and original poetry.

- Owl

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2007-12-16 07:01 AM

smile

Oh Owl...

if I'm gonna be in that kitchen, I'm gonna have fun in it.

I'm ruthless.

I'm mean.

I sing.

LOUD.

OFF-KEY.

and if you are brave enough to stand around me while I sling a knife? You get all the wine y'want!

Rachel Ray? Watch out honey!

to m'Owl.

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

3 posted 2007-12-16 07:25 AM

sounds delicious to me...I love to cook but cooking for one is not as much fun...

M

Margherita
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4 posted 2007-12-16 07:49 AM

Wow, dear Karen, you inspire ... on more than one level.
I feel like wanting to write and like wanting to cook ...
There is nothing like cooking delicious food and enjoy it with the family and with guests ... Maureen is right, this is a pleasure that needs to be shared to be fully savored. You may invite someone, dear Maureen, and enjoy together.

Karen, this was fantastic! Did you feel my presence in your kitchen? I hid the cheddar cheese ... go find it, haha ... Parmesan fits better (but I do like cheddar too, yes).

hmmmm ... tell us then about the pleasure at the table ...

Love,
Margherita

adagio
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since 2005-03-19

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Marrero, La.

5 posted 2007-12-16 09:36 AM

Wow! You've convinced me I'm overdue
for a visit. Let me know when
and I'll bring some Chianti
adagio

Artic Wind
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6 posted 2007-12-16 09:53 AM

Okay, I am hungry!
lol

ARCTIC WIND

lucky
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7 posted 2007-12-16 02:26 PM

your not doing turkey, right..?

lov it sis
dale

JamesMichael
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8 posted 2007-12-16 04:28 PM

I't not sure if I should be hungry or aroused...James

serenity blaze
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9 posted 2007-12-16 04:41 PM

JamesMichael?

Now THAT is the funniest, cutest reply, and I wish I could say that was the first time I've heard that from a guy too.

*laughing*

Oh sheesh, you!

Ceinwyn
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10 posted 2007-12-16 05:19 PM

While reading this I was craving spaghetti and turns out that's what my Mom is cooking tonight lol..got what I wished for

Oh and thanks I have "O Solo Mio" stuck in my head lol

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

Irish
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Ft Benning

11 posted 2007-12-16 05:44 PM

Let's just say

You fed me well

~ winks at you K ~

lol

1slick_lady
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12 posted 2007-12-16 06:17 PM

now you're cooking missy

Mysteria

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13 posted 2007-12-16 07:16 PM

OMG ask me if I loved this? Well? Ask me? Stubborn huh? Okay, I loved it so much that I printed it and it is on the dinner plates waiting for my family to come to "Sharon's Italian Kitchen" tonight and share a bit if Karenity as we break bread. GAWD, I love you! We ALL do up here, you are the bomb!

Karen? I am getting really sick of being the 13th comment on everyone's stuff, (not knowing I am doing it before it is done,) does this mean somethin? Yeah, of course it does, look before you comment

serenity blaze
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14 posted 2007-12-17 07:34 PM

Aw..Shar--now THAT is special!!!

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you all, but I did want to say "thanks" 'cause um...sometimes I just like to have some fun, and I did truly enjoy writing (and singing) this one.

The sauce good use some work though.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, a Joyous Solstice and Happy Hannukah, and just fill in the blank if I missed one.

You guys make me happy.

JamesMichael
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15 posted 2007-12-20 03:17 PM

One of my favorites...a wonderful flow of thoughts and action...back to the top...James

serenity blaze
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16 posted 2007-12-20 06:39 PM

You lookin' for another one of these?

JamesMichael
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17 posted 2007-12-21 08:04 PM

I believe that I am...James

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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18 posted 2007-12-23 02:34 AM

now Karen, I don't do kitchens myself, but I do love your style!
Happy Holidays to you my dear sweet friend
Love RDB xxx

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Mysteria

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19 posted 2007-12-23 02:42 AM

You are gonna love this ... tonight while Todd was draining the spaghetti to be covered in his "famous special secret sauce", he started singing some Italian song right out loud, and we all laughed at him. He said, "Well she is right, there is something very inspirational draining spaghetti in a sieve.

He remembered this poem of yours that was on his dinner plate the other night, imagine that! Now that is a good sign your work is remembered and it means something.

DennisTheMenace
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20 posted 2007-12-23 06:26 PM

Stir the pot, bubbling slow and steady,
herbs and spice added aplenty
let your cooking cast a spell
if it's a potion I won't tell;
enthrall me with the brew
feed me with the spirit of you.

Language Art Cooking
all forms of communication

Margherita
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21 posted 2008-01-19 11:43 AM

Today I decided to cook and while I was doing so, I felt deep pleasure and my thoughts wandered to you, dear Karen, and to this "tasty" poem. So I send it up to the top again for further pleasure.

I prepared ossobuco/veal shank (says the dictionary...years since we had them last time ...)with petits pois and a risotto with Radicchio rosso di Treviso whose name I can't find in English ... see here on this site they call it red-lined lettuce http://italianfood.about.com/library/rec/blr0094.htm .

... a glass of fine red wine (except me, otherwise I fall asleep!!) and everybody appreciated.

love
Margherita

Paul Wilson

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22 posted 2008-01-19 03:41 PM

Karen...You're making me hungry.
They say the way to a man's heart is thru his stomach and you got a direct road to mine, no red lights or stop signs.
How about some golden brown garlic bread.
and a bowl of bread pudding for dessert.

Save me a place at the table or if I have to i'll sit on the floor...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

XOx Uriah xOX
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23 posted 2008-01-19 04:02 PM

::smiles:: (((desire))) as always

You stir it well

simon
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24 posted 2008-01-19 07:02 PM

How good was that...?

very.

JamesMichael
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25 posted 2008-01-24 07:18 PM

Its me, bringing this up again...James

serenity blaze
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26 posted 2008-01-24 07:20 PM

*laughing*

(I have a few in reserve yanno)

I'm so often surprised by what you guys like, but I suspect me making joyful noise is so different from my normal style--I was gonna fix the language problems, but I thought naw--let the chianti influence stay.

Thank you, sweet baby James.

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