friday feast: one last lipsmacking, creamy-crunchy spread for peanut butter...
(click to visit Peanut Butter Lovers. com!) November 30th already? I’ve been having so much sticky fun, I hate to see the party end (sniff)! Cornelius’ favorite: Ashdon Farms Peanut Butter Bears This...
View Articlefriday feast: a soup poem for starters
“My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand — like Campbell’s Tomato Soup or Baker’s Chocolate.” ~ Katherine Hepburn For my first Poetry Friday post of 2013, the best first...
View Articlefriday feast: a special guest post by eat this poem blogger nicole gulotta
Since I’m a big fan of Nicole Gulotta’s uncommonly delicious literary food blog, I was tickled pink when she agreed to do a guest post featuring a children’s poet. Each week at Eat This Poem, Nicole...
View Articlefriday feast: eating for love
Mini Rosemary Heart Biscuits From the Little Yellow Kitchen (click for recipe) WHAT WE ALL SAY by Irene Sherlock There’s nothing to eat, my daughter says, standing in front of the refrigerator,...
View Articlefriday feast: hamming it up
Oinkity oink oink. Happy March! It’s National Pig Day! Gather round, ye swines, sows, piglets and poetry-loving porkers. We’re mud-wallowingly happy to squeal your praises today. Surely none other in...
View Articlefriday feast: the big cheese
“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” ~ M.F.K. Fisher Mr. Charles Cheddar Ghigna, our own Eminent Cheese Poet Was it...
View Articlethe poetry friday roundup is here!
Welcome to Poetry Friday at Alphabet Soup! I must say you’re even more good looking today than you were last week. How is that even possible?! I see by the twinkle in your eye that you’re hungry for...
View Articlefriday feast: a rib tickler
“Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it’s too sweet, it’s bound to be hiding something.” ~ Lyle Lovett This ever happen to you? You’re eating something healthy – veggie stir fry, tofu salad,...
View Articlefriday feast: it’s always better with butter
” If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it’s hard to beat bread and butter.” ~ Jacques Pepin Ah, butter! Slather it on a slice of warm crusty bread, watch a pat slippy slide down a...
View Articlefriday feast: “peeps” by barbara crooker
“The house light turns everything golden, and even though we know what’s coming, the next act, we start to believe we can stay here forever in the amber spotlight, that night’s black velvet curtain...
View Articlefriday feast: ♥ my darling, my dumpling ♥
Not too long ago, I asked you to call me “Melon Head.” Would you mind changing that to “Apple Dumpling”? Of all the foodie terms of endearment — Pumpkin, Sweetie Pie, Babycakes, Cookie, Honeybun — I...
View Articlefriday feast: a soothing bowl of comfort for tough times
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” ~ Jimi Hendrix photo by Sharon Auberle Syria. Shootings. Shutdown. Stand-off. What to do when your government is broken...
View Articlefriday feast: pommes, poem, pudding
“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Apple print available via Sugar Lane Photo Shop Every Autumn, I fall in love with...
View Articlefriday feast: the proof is in the panna cotta
Thanks to Diane Shipley DeCillis, we now know why the course of true love never did run smooth. Curtain up! * * * via Da Silvano OPERA BUFFA At La Dolce Vita, in the village, the gnocchi lifts itself...
View Articlefriday feast: kate lebo on a commonplace book of pie
Who wants pie? Did you save your fork? In a perfect world, there’d be a poetry pie shop just minutes from home, where the heavenly aroma of freshly baked double crust fruit pies would lovingly call...
View Articlefriday feast: hayden saunier’s the one and the other
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” ~ Emily Dickinson * Fasten your seat belts. This one left me reeling. via Just a Pinch Recipes * THE ONE AND THE...
View Articlefriday feast: “my mother’s handwriting” by julia wendell
MY MOTHER’S HANDWRITING by Julia Wendell Individual as DNA, it spoke to me from fridge notes, Christmas tags, and report cards I took back to school, with her hurried scrawl at the bottom. Even now,...
View Article2014 Poetry Friday Archive
1. “Cranberry,” A Commonplace Book of Pie by Kate Lebo and Jessica Lynn Bonin 2. “The One and the Other” by Hayden Saunier 3. “Sugar” by Barbara Crooker 4. THE POEM THAT WILL NOT END by Joan Bransfield...
View Articlefriday feast: chatting with julia wendell about take this spoon
We are always eating or about to, or just done. We are hungry, we are sated, we are wishing we hadn’t. We are making up for it, or planning our denials, or confessing them. ~ from “Dieting” by Julia...
View Articlefriday feast: anna’s garden songs by mary q. steele and lena anderson
Mr. Cornelius Cucumber While looking for more children’s books illustrated by Lena Anderson, I was happy to discover Anna’s Garden Songs – a whimsical, light-hearted collection of 14 fruit and veggie...
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