Welcome to dVerse! Michelle (Mish) here for today’s Poetics.
With the holidays approaching, many of us begin the task of baking and cooking festive treats. For some, the task only involves eating them! I remember my grandmother’s crescent moons that melted in my mouth and her Napoleon ice box cookies with stripes of pink, green and white. Whatever the ingredients, I always knew that one of them was love.
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For today’s Poetics, I am asking you to create your own “recipe poem”, but not of the culinary kind. Instead, write about something more abstract such as “a recipe for love”. You may want to include the language of a cookbook, but that is up to you. I found quite an extensive list of cooking terms at Atomic Gourmet.com.
Feel free to use any of these for inspiration. A recipe for….
- Peace
- Merriment
- Misery
- Courage
- Insanity
- Wisdom
- Strength
- Confusion
- Relaxation
- Success
- Failure
- Self-love
- Peace on earth
- Hope
- Disaster
- Success
- Friendship
- Joy
- Health
- Rejuvenation
- Humanity
- Compassion
- Goodwill
- Sacrifice
As a holiday gift to you, I would like to share a recipe that has become a family tradition in our home. Enjoy!
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Scottish Whipped Shortbread
1 lb. (454 g) butter, softened
1 cup (250 ml) icing sugar
1/2 cup (125 ml) cornstarch
3 cups (750 ml) flour
1 tsp. (5 ml) vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 F. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Cream butter. Sift together icing sugar, cornstarch and flour. Put butter, dry ingredients and vanilla in electric mixer and beat until consistency of whipped cream. Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet. May be decorated with red and green cherry pieces or coloured sprinkles. Bake 15-20 minutes. Stores well in covered tin.
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Directions for today’s prompt:
- Write a recipe poem and post it on your blog. Think outside of the recipe box!
- Enter a link directly to your poem and your name by clicking Mr Linky.
- Leave a comment below or join in the discussion.
- Read and comment on other poet’s work. We all go here to have our poems read.
- Please link back to dVerse from your site/blog.
- Have fun!
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So many possibilities here… took something I really felt I needed… Happy Tuesday everyone
Hello everybody! Hope it is.. or has been a good day for you in your part of the world. 🙂 Looking forward to reading some creative concoctions.
Hi Bjorn…I’m glad it spoke to you. 🙂
A great prompt… maybe I stretched the rule a bit… but it was fun… It would be great to make a poetic cookbook.
I’m sure the result was worth the stretching of rules! Will be over soon.
A poetic cookbook would be SO interesting. 🙂
Oh I enjoyed writing my poem for this prompt, Mish, and I can’t wait to see what everyone else posts! It’s foggy and frosty here and I have lit a fire, Mojo the kitten is curled up on my lap and I’m consoling myself: my children’s novel was long-listed in the Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition and I’ve been waiting to see if it had been short-listed – the email arrived this afternoon to tell me I’d been unsuccessful so I’ve been down about that, on top of everything else. I need a stiff drink – something warm and spicy, please!
A hot toddy coming right up, Kim and help yourself to the cookies. It sounds like you HAVE been successful… making the list is an honour. Chin up!
Thank you, Mish!
Awww, Kim. That is disappointing, on top of everything else going on. I’m so sorry. Sending you warm hugs.
Thank you, De.
Well, I beg to differ with you. You were and are successful! You were long-listed which many many many were not! Never doubt your talent, Kim. Sometimes the whims of thw world just don’t go our way…but that in now way, has anything to do with your talent! So I still say, congratulations! 🙂
Thank you for your words of confidence and wisdom, Lillian, which are are always welcome. I’m sharing on WordPress today two poems which didn’t get anywhere in recent competitions. It’s that kind of month for me. After Christmas I shall gather my thoughts and start going round agents with the novel and entering competitions with poems. I might even try some agents and publishers outside the UK. New Year, new hope!
Oo so excited to feast on your words! Open up a fresh jar of awesomesauce!
Awesomesauce? Love it. 🙂
Hi Mish! Great prompt. I enjoyed it muchly. Being an ex-chef, this prompt speaks to me on many levels.
That makes me happy, Tony! 🙂
Will be reading a little later. Today has been a whirlwind. Found out I have a job interview tomorrow and it put me in scramble mode!
LOL, I’ll bet it did!
How can you be an ex chef? I love cooking, it’s my kitchen that leaves something to be desired. Electric stove, yucko.
I can be an ex-chef because I walked awa 15 years into my career and it took me awhile to cook again. Hence, ex-chef
Mish, I loved this prompt, and plan to use your list of cooking words for later inspiration, as well. 🙂
{And oh, my, do those cookies look divine!}
(I hope Misky makes it over today. She’s gonna love this prompt!)
Indeed… I will have to check tomorrow.
Hi De!! Thank you…so glad you liked the prompt. I hope Misky joins too.
The recipe is good. Very melt in your mouth, not too sweet. 🙂
I had to do a second, using more cooking terms, and true recipe style.
Well I will say awesomesauce to that!
LOL!@! There were so many ways to approach this prompt. Maybe too many. LOL! I’m scattered and fried (and need a stiff drink) but I concocted a poem…sort of. And am posting a recipe like many others here….Hungarian Kflies!!!! I could die on these and probably will. Burp.
That’s for this wonderful prompt. My ADHD kicked in fast writing this piece….but wouldn’t it be wonderful if dverse put out a dversepoets cookbook? Now, that’s a recipe for disaster! Or something…..
LOL!! Bjorn mentioned that idea above.
Thanks for joining in! Will be over a bit later to read. 🙂
Such a fun thing to do. I’ve two poems that fit the prompt but will need to wait for an OLN to respond.
Nice to see you, Victoria. :)No worries…looking forward to them.
I must slip out for a bit to pick up a letter of reference. Be back asap. Please leave me a few cookies crumbs.
Great prompt…landing late tonight so time to write but comments will have to wait until tomorrow…early start for me.
Thanks Paul. 🙂
My house is dark on this cold rainy night, from the oven waft no cookies baking. But some solace is had here in the pub
The Christmas festive season offers so many delights to be offered and the menu continues to evolve. Having just arrived home after five weeks travelling in the US and Europe, I must now turn my mind to Christmas cooking.
Because Christmas is Summer in Australia, we have variations on the northern hemisphere theme to suit the climate. Christmas Celebrations generally begin with December and last until after the New Year – just excuses for parties really.
Christmas in summer sounds lovely, rosross. Thanks for joining in. 🙂
Okay….so jet lag is obviously still here. Just finished working on this and was going to “schedule it” for tomorrow. Came here and discovered it’s already tomorrow! Sheesh….I need to get it together.
So — I accepted the challenge Mish and wrote a recipe card poem for rejuvenatement. Hopefully it’s understandable — my brain is so muddled. And I don’t dare wake it up with coffee (except in the morning) or I’ll be awake all night. My brain is still somewhere between Sydney and New Zealand! 🙂 LOL How long can I use this excuse before I just have to say, even though I’m rejuvenated, it’s simply age creeping up on me????
Anyway — loved the prompt and had some fun with it.
Don’t dare read anyone else’s until tomorrow morning…with a cup of very strong coffee so my brain will function!
Pour me an iced decaf coffee with amaretto for a little flavoring please 🙂
Coming right up, Lillian. I’m sure your trip was amazing. My son just landed (alone) in Thailand last night. I waited until 3:45 a.m. to hear that he was safe and sound. Not a coffee drinker but I think tea will be required to get through my evening.
Will be over soon to read your rejuvenation creation! 🙂
So glad your son arrived safely. They are always our children, right? No matter the age!
Absolutely. I’m not a fan of him traveling alone there but it is his life.
Thank you for the incentive. I don’t know that I’ve ever posted here two days in a row.
http://wordsandfeathers.com/2016/12/06/recipe-for-a-broken-sonnet-20161206/
Compassion jumped out at me, Mish, so I went with it. I loved your idea of recipes for different experiences of life. Thank you!
Hi Gayle! Nice to see you. 🙂 I was hoping someone would grab onto that one. I am off to bed, will continue the trail tomorrow.
Good morning, will just try to catch up a bit before leaving for work.
It is that busy christmassy time of year and I might be lagging over the next few days…will try to catch up at weekend….you all seem to have so much energy.
Well, I just couldn’t resist. It will take me a while to get around, but I will…eventually.