Monday, February 23, 2015
Ciao, Chow!
There were some great haikus about Italian food last Friday! It isn't often that an anonymous post strikes me as great, but this one was:
Gnocchi has my heart
Firm on the outside, pillow
Of delight inside.
If nothing else, the phrase "gnocchi has my heart" is a winner. I love that. Meanwhile, in the long-form category, it is hard to beat this masterpiece by Jill Scoggins:
Gnocchi has my heart
Firm on the outside, pillow
Of delight inside.
If nothing else, the phrase "gnocchi has my heart" is a winner. I love that. Meanwhile, in the long-form category, it is hard to beat this masterpiece by Jill Scoggins:
Flavors perfectly balanced.
Baseball-sized meatballs.
“Don’t use lean ground beef,”
she says. “More fat is better.”
Her mom’s recipe.
Handed down from mom
to daughter through the years. Or
to daughters-in-law.
(Men don’t cook in this
family) Time-tested. No
need to improvise.
Piles of al dente
pasta mix with sauce so light,
so good, so perfect.
Served as a side dish
on Sundays after church with
fried chicken or roast.
I’ll never enjoy
any other near as much.
Delizioso.
Peppers, onions on a bun
Italian soul food.
And what made me most hungry? Antonia Promessa:
Carbonara,bacon and
Cheese married egg so
Exquisitely that
When you tasted it you closed
Your eyes.Pleasure flowed
Like the blood of a
Satisfied cat from tongue to
Talon. Sated, stretched...bed.