“What’s On Tap Today” Tanka 236

Make bread, wash dishes,

roast peanuts and potatoes;

reheat beans-n-rice.

 

Oh, yes, two loads of laundry.

For dessert: start a new book!r

“Only Better With Chocolate* Vice Cheese”

butter, baguette, and

some thick-sliced cheddar for lunch:

now ask – beer or milk?

 

*Jacques Pepin relates his favorite after-school snack left by his mom: baguette, buttered (I think, but am not sure) with a chunk of chocolate – dark and bitter one hopes – and while I recall not if he had elementary-aged milk of course, I’d think a nice glass of red or a good dark ale. One day – Real Soon, Now – I will construct an experiment…but for now I must report someone keeps pilfering the bread, the butter, the beer and the chocolate.  Oh, well, I’s wine with my cheese.

“Breaking Bread Rules”

A nice, honest loaf

until I broke the rulebook:

and now it’s better!

 

“Always On The Menu”

Thick slab Machine Bread,

butter-slathers and cold milk,

breakfast, lunch or late!

“For Biscuits, Baking Or Cheap Chugging” Tanka 83

Pint of Powder Milk:

one and seven-eights cup water,

two-thirds cup dry milk.

substitute one water for whole milk.

will the bread flour know its faux?

“Dry Beer Supper”

A soup, salad and

Dry Beer Supper served with sweet

butter and dessert.

“Add Butter Either Way!”

Perform surgery

on Bushes Best Beans off shelf.

Rice or over bread?

“Baguette or not Baquette”

Simple, wholesome bread:

flour, water, yeast and some salt.

How much, and what kind?

“Just Don’t Tell My Big Wooden Spoon!”

Selective Luddite

that I am, I now make bread

by hand or machine!

“With Thanks To Deion Sanders”

Bake bread or just read?

With my auto-bread machine

I now can say, “Both!”