The Dheeze's
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Add more sweet potatoes or squash to that
mixture. It is entirely to sweet! It is delicous
and spiced just right
but it is to sweet.
Some nuts or rasains would colpliment it to
a thin layer with some cream cheese or
goat cheese, on a Pâte Brisée,
"now that's cooking!"
I want everything to be perfect.
We gonna roast a leg of lamb
medium rare
and slice it thin serve it up
with some roasted potatoes
and asparagus And some carmilized
carrots and parsnips.
"Sauce up the drippings and put it out there!"
Two wines and a grape juice blend
"tart enough for a pucker"
Concord Grape Juice mixed with
Malbec and Shiraz.
"Thats what we gota today darling!"
The thing about Mary that was extraordinary
Was her parents on her pulled a fast one.
They gave her a first name, multiplied it by two,
But neglected a middle and last one.
And so Mary Mary was deemed quite contrary,
But, oh, what a green thumb had she.
Though she didn't grow okra,
Tomatoes, or peas,
Or cucumbers, parsnips,
Or beets, if you please,
Her strange garden plot
Was as full as could be.
She diligently toiled
With spade, rake, and hoe
Planting silver bells, cockleshells,
And pretty maids in a row.
All the townsfolk agreed
Mary's skills were incredible,
But it was a community garden,
And they would have preferred she
Grow something more edible.
Parchment reach reap, continual column
Turns over huge too ripe drooping vegetables
Dirt encrusted, grit bitter varietal problem
Sown hammock slack jowls of expired eligible
Rows of sour seeds scatter, screen remote
Hits rock of dark past in cyber seclusion
Parsnips tumble imprudent from trenchcoat
Revelations conspire as a cosy delusion
Bedroom Belle picks weakness with a sickle
Amps up apathetic with chicken meal
Prods tired produce, hoary humour tickled
Caustic crop farmer fertile hands heal
Twenty Seventh of June
Twilight clients of Jezebel
Djewbe Pollo and Porc and bife
Batter and fry golden brown
6 chicken breast
6 pork cutlets
6 flank steaks
Prepare
5 carrots peeled and diced
4 tablespoons of minced garlic
1 cup of zucchini
1&1/2 diced red onion
1 cup of carrots
1 Sprig of rosemary
1 Sprig of thyme
9 pre cooked potatoes ) microwave( or parsnips)
Cut into dices
2 red peppers sliced
2 green peppers sliced
5 cup of steamed cabbage
3 cups of raw broccoli
2 cups sun dried tomatoes
2 cups baby corn
2 tablespoons of cayenne
3 tablespoons lemon zest
4 tablespoons lemon juice
6 tablespoons sesame seed oil
2 cups vegetable stock
2 cups chicken stock
1&1/2 cups of white wine
3 tablespoons of brown sauce
Layer meat first, top with veggies
Cover with foil bake for 1 hour
Drain some sauce and thicken.
Serve with yeast rolls!
Now that's Supper!
The crowd shuffles
hands raised in vain attempt
to catch a windblown lottery ticket
If you spend 25 bucks
(not counting the price of the turkey)
You can get the turkey
for 89 cents a pound
If not….you’ll pay more
for the turkey than for
the entire dinner.
Took my grandkids to the park.
saw 32 wild turkeys crossing the street
without a crossing guard.
Never play checkers with a cat.
I made Rock Cornish Game Hen for supper.
My kids wanted to know what happened to the turkey?
I told them I washed it…..and it shrunk.
I once ate “Blood Pudding” and Parsnips with my father.
Don’t ask!
How long does it take to become “indigenous”?
I asked Mom: “how many jelly beans can I have?”
She answered: “how many is too many.”
If you factor in all the cleaning, shopping, arranging, set-up, preparation….
the Thanksgiving meal comes to about $89.73 per person..
More if you have a “kids” table.
John G. Lawless
11/23/2021
Sunday roast
A meal I loved
for some time not partaken
When Ma was here
Well ~ oh my dear
Served on the dot at one o’clock
And woe betide if we were late
it would be on the table
upon our plate
and steaming hot
Whether we were there or not
Nowadays it’s just for one
Has somehow lost appeal
To sit alone now on my own
I really don’t enjoy
Those crispy roasted spuds
with golden Yorkshire puds
buttered carrots ~ roasted parsnips
on my plate roast leg of lamb
a generous dollop of minty sauce
with thick meaty gravy piping hot
Three cheers for the cook
Three cheers for the host
I can almost taste it ~ I can almost smell it
Ma always cooked the best Sunday roast
Now my grandson is a vegan
his girlfriend she is too
my granddaughter a veggie
oh what am I to do
I cannot beat them
so I will join them
nut roast now my Sunday roast
but I'm still yearning for the taste
of Ma’s on the dot at one o'clock
her Sunday roasts delectable
each mouthful unforgettable...
Written 4 July 2021
Contest A BRIAN STRAND JULY 4
Sponsor Brian Strand
FIRST PLACE
I’ve just made some bubble and squeak
Fried leftover food, it’s unique
I add cooked green sprouts
In massive amounts
No wonder I fart for a week!
*Bubble and squeak is a traditional British dish (made with left over vegetables and meat from Christmas dinner which are fried together). Mine contained, roasted parsnips, cauliflower, broccoli, roast and boiled potatoes, sprouts and some chopped turkey. Every time you make it it's different.
12/26/20
I love a radish in the springtime!
I love a radish in the fall!
I take my car and park it,
There at the farmer's market,
And buy out every radish stall!
If there’s kohlrabi, I’ll buy a few
A tasty turnip I will not eschew,
But I love a radish when the sun’s up,
And even more when it begins to set,
But at the stroke of midnight
There’s nothing else I will bite
Cept’ for all the radish I can get.
And as for parsnips, they make me larf;
And salsify? My gosh I just might barf!
But I love a radish on my waffles,
As filling in my chocolate radish cake,
Tho’ once, while in Calcutta,
I wolfed down radish butta,
and I never will forget the belly-ache!
Cats got yo tongue,
catwalks, runs stalks prowls;
Meow!
Catheads catalog catlike people.
Meow, yet they smell cationic;
Cats got yo tongue!
Catlings catmints containments within parsnips;
Catnaper catcher of meow winks;
And does a catfish eat mice;
Cats got yo tongue!
And does a dog walk down a catwalk;
Does a catbird tweet-tweet...
And does a catchup ever get behind;
Do cats wear shoes with their catsuit;
Does a catboat sink or floats;;
Catcall the caterer chatter-chatter-
Cats got yo tongue;
MEOW!
8/4/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019
A Vegetable Story
Broccoli, Spinach, yummy fresh Garden Peas,
Cabbages, Winter Greens, Cauliflower Trees.
Runner Beans and broad, Mange Tout so Francais,
Curly Kale, Crunchy Sprouts on a cold windy day.
Onions, Parsnips, Carrots and tall Welsh Leek,
King Edwards, Purple Turnip, ready next week.
Corn cut off the cob with sweet Barley Rice,
Mash up that Swede for a treat savour nice.
Tips of Asparagus are one acquired taste,
Into the soup, don’t let them go to waste.
Vegetable Squash with Butternut and Pumpkin,
Tearing Sour dough bread, ready for dunking.
Please don’t choke on a strange looking Arti’
Exclusively reserved for a Vegan style party.
Try some boiled Beet and a large slice of Yam,
Fennel is soporific, a bit like I am.
Parsley and Cress make a simple garnish,
Spring Onion and Celery, very Saladish.
Going to the wood, picking wild Mushroom,
Beware some are poison, Stomach-ache of doom.
Lots of choice for a Veggie style life,
No need for meat, no need of a knife.
Don’t want to preach, so my voice is on mute,
That’s all from the Veg, lets start on the Fruit.
Swallowing soil's nutrients, they swell up under earth -
round or tubular vegetables of edible wholesome delight!
Carrots, beets and onions steadily fuel the body,
but yams, potatoes and parsnips - baked and buttered -
are the ones I ROOT the loudest for!
Written Jan. 4, 2016 for the Rooting For 8 To 5 contest of nette onclaude
I ate the shank of the turnips what a wonderful food
Dipped the cornbread into the pot liquor
Then shawshanked out of the room..
My mother-in-law said her father called her older sister, Shank
And he called her Shawshank
Just out of curiosity I looked them up..Surprise, surprise!!
Shank means the top of a vegetable like the turnip tops, beets or parsnips or carrot, etc..It also is a cut of meat the shank park of a ham..
However, I did not find a meaning on shawshank until I looked in the Urban Dictionary and it means passing gas in small amount moving around a room or building to keep anyone from knowing who passed the gas..LOL..I guess my mother-in-law must have been a gassy baby..LOL
When the chequered pattern of plain wallpaper catches your eye a budgie can perform a backflip whilst eating a cucumber. It is wise to use a stapler to fasten a knot in a ceiling beam. Buttered bottomless baskets balance bananas beautifully. Which creates an aria in an artificial attic. Strings on a glockenspiel are wound tightly to enable the caterpillar to crawl sideways. Evading the usual pattern then. Good. If half a heifer is twice a pig then surely the snail is dominant. So speaks the timeless meaninglessness chatter of a time lord who is trampling a path over the patio. The upward flowing river on the downward slope of pies is indicative of a sandwich of curry. Relay racing with sauces to escape the cheers of chillies arriving in a box with a lid. But the backwards swimming whale never marries an ox. Parsnips painting petunias prettily. Personification not dwelling in a mystic flair in a class of bees on seats. Barking baking bison bringing bacon back. How quite magical. Weaving a coat then. Hahahaha day of a giant jar of healthy green juice and arranged gherkins grin. Xxxx cauterisation z.
Some Sex Appeal
(In Response to Ward's poem about Sunday)
Fixing Sunday roast is a piece of toast
What I always like about it the most
It comes with mint potatoes and parsnips.
Pudding on each Sunday has proved to be
Annoying like bad boys who also do me
So much energy pudding it will produce
But they still needed a nap I did deduce.
Why don't we just cut all of the crap
Quiet is best thing about a Sunday nap
Each night pray to God when I kneel
Give me a pregnant mum some sex appeal.
Ho ho.
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran
There's a land to visit in your dreams
a place that really has, it seems,
no Brussels sprouts or cauliflower,
no cabbage, broccoli or sauer-
-kraut or parsnips or broad beans,
and where peas truly are the only greens.
Spuds they bake there have some crunch
so they go quite well with Sunday lunch.
And, to get apple pie or creamy whips
you only have to eat your chips.
So close your eyes and try to find
The Land Of Kale Much Maligned,
where Popeye, building superpowers,
shuns spinach and instead devours,
guess what, to give him strength supreme?
Yes! Lots of scones with jam and cream!
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