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Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2004-05-16 06:53 PM

Secret Ingredient

Meals served in finest restauirants
Have something missing there.
Why is it no food tastes so good
As Mama's simple fare?

A noted chef's fine gourmet dish,
Served up with grandest flair
Does not delight the tastebuds
As does Mama's simple fare.

French cooking with fine sauces
Made of ingredients rare,
Cannot compete with the pure love,
In Mama's simple fare.

By Joyce 5/5/04

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2004-05-16 07:35 PM

Very sweet,Joyce! Love is the most important ingredient of all!

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2004-05-16 10:22 PM

Dear Joyce: This is so true. Dishes prepared with loving hands always taste the best!

Love
Betty Lou

Betty Lou Hebert

midnightblues
Senior Member

since 2000-07-01

Posts 1597
Singapore

3 posted 2004-05-17 04:53 AM

NiCe!!

Love
MiCheLLe

If there cannot be equal in affection, then let the one with more be me - midnightblues

PatAngel
Member

since 2004-04-05

Posts 451
California

4 posted 2004-05-23 01:20 PM

Dear Joyce,
This reminds me of my mother's wholesome cooking in which she put all her love into it, just to make us happy. Thank you for sharing.

Love,
Patricia

'When you find a dream within your heart, don't ever let it go.
For dreams are the tiny seeds from which tomorrow grows.'

Beasley
Senior Member

since 2003-11-28

Posts 682
Cheboygan,MI USA

5 posted 2004-05-23 01:55 PM

Boy, this is true!
Good poem.Love, Barb

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2004-05-23 03:00 PM

thanks for sharing

Isobel
Senior Member

since 2004-01-17

Posts 529
Qld, Australia

7 posted 2004-05-29 10:07 PM

Dear Joyce

Now I know why some of the food in those restaurants do not taste very nice at all. The chef has 'lost' the 'love' for his/her cooking. A 'hearty' poem indeed.

Love Isobel

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

8 posted 2004-06-03 11:15 AM

Joyce~
That's what my kids say !

But, in all fairness to my son, Steven, who is a restaurant manager for The Main Street Grille in downtown DeLand ... I'd have to say as he practices the skills learned at this Mommy's side while so young he had to stand on a stool to reach the stove~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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