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Shallots Poems - Poems about Shallots

Premium MemberMy Father's Instructions: Cooking Filet Mignon

...Have it
At room 
Temperature
Before cooking.

No marinade.
Just coarse salt
And pepper.

Hot heavy pan
Medium to high heat.
Flip when seared.

Dark brown.
Lower heat.

Lotsa butter,
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Categories: shallots, food,
Form: Free verse

Choux Part 3 En dehors

...salt and pepper six large beeff bones bake at 350 for 35 to 40 mins.
remove a cool
remove marrow from the bone and set aside
2 cups of chopped minced fine cremine mushrooms
1 cup of olives choppe...
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Categories: shallots, food, music, sports,
Form: Ballad



Steeped in Legend The Mallard Mimic

...The Mallard Mimic 
is a myth....
it calls for a well trained
chef to use his knowledge of meat and wines
to create a standard
that many would wish for
and are willing to pay
to have
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Categories: shallots, adventure, creation, culture, desire,
Form: Classicism

Premium MemberNeither Cricket Nor Croquet

...
   Discriminating palates
      garnish salads with shallots
    
   But when eating croquettes
      avoid mallets
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Categories: shallots, food, games, giggle,
Form: Rubai

Caution

...Caution

Coal and violets strewn among your bone
Frosted the night, icy glaze of patient fire
Bending and breaking as a knead
Stammer and as tremor, shallots sake 
We play in the billiard right...
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Categories: shallots, age, divorce, farewell, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Pickle Party

...All the Pickled produce gathered
At Branston Manor - if you please!
They entered via a staircase
Made of Jacob's Crackers and Cheese.

The Gherkin Girls and Chutney twins,
Who's names are Tom a...
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Categories: shallots, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Titanium Chalice

...6/9/22


Apparently far from tacit
Near endless racket
In day light and pitch blackness
For the sane and those in strait jackets

Dammit
Still sporadic
 Caught in transit
Can't rely on mag...
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Categories: shallots, dark, deep, life, rap,
Form: Rhyme

A Familial Condition

...Disgruntled, they come to me as bit-parts
ripped from black and white movies. 
Mad aunt Anastasia, who should have been a nun.
One of her hands will not touch her,
the other has been carried off
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Categories: shallots, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Try This Won

...speak it as it was to be
something for a world of
people to love and admire.
delicious and special.
she wanted something that was flavored naturally.
we determined that a sweet fruity flavor wou...
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Categories: shallots, food, french, science, sweet
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberPasta: a Fork of Heaven

...PASTA: A FORK OF HEAVEN

In a pot of bubbling boiling water,
I drop hard nine inches long bundle of farfelles..

Minutes passed,between my fingertips, 
I pressed one strand, ...
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Categories: shallots, beautiful, desire, food, imagery,
Form: Didactic

Old Bat

...The old bat is in the kitchen,
She is buggering shallots,
The cat in the bag is bitchin,
Cos she has the bloody hots,
She aint a getting it not.

Old bat is burning water,
The burnt rice hits the flo...
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Categories: shallots, adventure, old, old,
Form: Quintain (English)

Seafood Boil

...Baby red potatoes peeled
Fresh corn from the field
With pink shallots in the pot
Sausages add zing
Then the shrimps go in
Seasoning
Yum

14/07/2011
For Sara’s “Country Boil” contest...
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Categories: shallots, food
Form: Epulaeryu

~ (~) ~ the Things of These ~ (~) ~(Part #1 of 6) ~ (~) ~

... It is those things such as these-yes... . 

Like remaining on mute because your staying in tune with the close
captioning of the news set up in the picture in picture TV on the big screen...
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Categories: shallots, inspirationalhumorous, old, old,
Form: Prose Poetry

Pickles

...Tin bath in back yard,
Full of shallots for peeling.
Pickles for Christmas!





For Brian's "Images of Fall" contest....
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Categories: shallots, nostalgia, seasons
Form: Haiku

Hungry Poet

...The old iron fry pan
Sealed and tempered
So many times
Melts the butter and olive oil
Until the entire bottom
Is bubbling almost smoking
The onions and shallots
Cut and diced to tiniest of cub...
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Categories: shallots, food, imagination, visionary,
Form: Bio

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