NaHaiWriMo - Day 6 - rice


It is no secret to anyone who knows me that I love rice. I was able to get my old household to only eat sushi rice so we only had two kinds in the pantry ( the occasional brown rice).

Today I made a killer meat sauce and I had it over a bowl of rice. As I was thinking about today's word as well as enjoying my lunch, I thought back to the last nice meal I cooked for someone that was not family. I lugged out my battered but trusty pots and pans. Dinner was fabulous. Hence...



important meal-
finding the battered rice pot
and mommy's pans

NaHaiWrMo Day 5 - vegetable (any)

Today's prompt was appealing because most to the time, folks don't really notice vegetables in a postive way - remember your mom saying "eat your vegetables or no dessert for you" or salad being thought of as "rabbit food" when you have to loose weight or how brussel sprouts are the worst things EVER.

I love veggies because of catering becausethere are boku kinds and even more ways of prepping them. I remember fondly doing crudite tables and making animals out of fruits and veggies for decoration.

It is actually the beginning of asparagus season and I really love asparagus when it is not much thicker than a pencil.

Hence today's offering-


today's treat-
roasted asparagus
caramelized nuts

Today's prompt is "spice/s".  I found out the garlic is not a spice (bummer).  Cinnamon was the only one that I wanted to use but the baking reference was not lending itself to my supposed breif cathect.  This is from the last time I was uprooted and plopped into a new space.

NaHaiWriMo Day 4 -spices

after the move-
restocking the fridge
replacing spices

Today-s prompt is "cheese". I was thinking of many specific types of cheese (robiolo, asiago, goat) but I could not work one into the format I was going for. So I decided on winter staples that are helping me keep the flue at bay.


NaHaiWriMo - Day 3

battling a cold-
tomato soup and grilled cheese
lots of hot toddies

Today's prompt - "egg". Let me be clear about this.....I hate eggs. The sight much less the smell of a cooked egg skeeves me big time. But my challenge today is to overcome that and work the concept of an egg into a haiku. 

I am saving for a family trip in a few months and realized I needed a vaction fund so I had to forgo a few things to have a pot of ducats when I get on the plane(....ding, ding dingggg - nest egg).  Here goes.

NaHaiWriMo - Day 2

start of vacation nest egg-
week of bagged lunch menus
canceling Netflix

I haven't done Haiku on paper consistently for a while - blogger and my computer were not liking each other very much. Now they are back on on speaking terms and I need to cathect many things so I decided to try the NaHaiWriMo this year.  It should be less stressful than the NaNoWriMo I did in 2011. The cool thing is that you get a daily prompt to focus your writing on.

Today's prompt is pasta - my favorites are gemelli, farfalle and campanelle.  I was thinking back to the last great comfort food I had which was a bowl of campenelle with an excellent bacth of homemade sauce.


NaHaiWriMO - Day 1


writing break-
steam dancing above
saucy campanelles

stroke of midnight
the world quivering
with possibilities