Sketchbook  Editor Karina Klesko's Choice Food Haiku

 

Fit For Feasting The Sketchbook editors have selected their Monthly Haiku Choices from the November 2007 food thread. Love this one ...number 1 choice...   First Choice stolen cherries she keeps washing red-stained hands # 23. Hortensia Anderson, US       I find all of these haiku exemplary! Well juxtaposed, and natural to read, using observations and thought.   rows of red peppers in the farmer's market— a sharp autumn wind # 25. Hortensia Anderson, US     fruit cake wrapped in cheese cloth harvest moon # 27. Trish Shields, CA     september sunset— red, green and yellow apples match the fallen leaves # 28. Hortensia Anderson, US     Teaching my kids how to bake pies—even the cat is covered with flour. # 30. Zhanna P. Rader, US     autumn frost making plum jelly keeps the kitchen warm # 31. Sally Evans, UK     sunrise on the farm— the curve of fresh-laid eggs in wicker baskets # 39. Hortensia Anderson, US     thanksgiving dinner— together savoring a full moon # 42. Judith Gorgone, US     at midnight raiding the refrigerator cold turkey # 53. john daleiden

 

Comments all natural food served plastic flowers in the shops windows # 04. Shanna Baldwin Moore, US I like the humor in this.     Just a potato, carrot, red pepper, courgette. My broken magimix. # 05. Sally Evans, UK it may be a magic mixer ..but shoving all the veggies into it and I think the zucchini may have taken it over the top! love it...been there done that...like the idea of needing magic to save that dish.....     spaghetti bolognese— i sip cooking wine finger dishevelled hair Blithe Spirit September 2001 # 06. Alan Summers, UK Alan, I had to look up the recipe for this...  am including it for those who don't know what it is...it looks simply divine! Perhaps it takes a long time to make and I am envisioning the bottle to be done before the food is......!!   Follow this link to the recipe.     ripe avocados— I carve the moon's phases with a penknife # 08. Hortensia Anderson, US This is so cool, Hortensia! Love it as it is an art of fruit carving... http://www.modernthaifood.com/carving.html

 

Commentary   hunter's moon a mandarin soaked in brandy # 09. Trish Shields, CA This looks easy, I can do this... I just like the whole thought of it...moon ..love...hunters ...the color of a mandarin orange soaked in moonlight as well...     I burn my tongue, I cut my finger— dinner's ready! # 16. Zhanna P. Rader, US I Like this for the univeral scope of it...we have all been here—male or female everywhere.     within one hundred days of Christmas and dinner with no pastelles!! # 20. gillena cox, TT A link to pastelles