Comments on: lost recipe haiku

By: deb

deb — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:21 +0000

Hi Sarah -- Thank you. You might also enjoy this crunchy pork chop recipe. And yes, there's a new one (super quick!) coming in the book.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:03:19 +0000

Deb, you saved my day again! My 11 year old DD asked me, while reading ‘Are you there God, It’s me Margaret’, what is a pork chop? It didn’t even occur to me you would tackle something so boring as pork chops. For the first time in ages, I didn’t come to you first….i check GH and a Jaime (boring or too fussy with crackling). I should have known you would have something perfect to do with my chops. Clear, delicious and came out perfect the first time. Please please i hope your book has thorough testers…the ‘came out perfect the first time’ is so important to those of us on a budget (in my instance because I selfishly took the train into London to see first the Leonardo exhibit and then a week later the Hockney exhibit).

By: deb

deb — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:53:20 +0000

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:40:14 +0000

Speaking of food poetry, have you ever heard of Pablo Neruda? He’s written some fabulous odes to different food items; the tomato, the onion, the artichoke, etc.

My favorite snippet from Ode to the Onion:

You make us cry without hurting us.
I have praised everything that exists,
but to me, onion, you are
more beautiful than a bird
of dazzling feathers,
heavenly globe, platinum goblet,
unmoving dance
of the snowy anemone

and the fragrance of the earth lives
in your crystalline nature.

By: Sab

Sab — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:33:52 +0000

Ha! On the eggplant haiku the silver plates one, the last sentence was 6 not 5 syllables

By: jess z

jess z — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:02:35 +0000

i loved the pork chop recipes! SO easy, i couldnt believe it. but it definitely couldve been spicier so i would add more paprika and maybe some red pepper flakes?

thanks!

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:39:27 +0000

I love the haiku!

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:36:19 +0000

Deb, you’re hilarious. I love the introductory haikus. If you give up your site, which I beg you not to, you should consider a changed career in writing- screenplays (comedic of course) or perhaps a humorous cookbook. Something to help us novices laugh at ourselves while we burn down the kitchen. ;)

By: jay

jay — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:00:02 +0000

Hey Deb!
I was thinking about maybe tossing in some cooked scallops or shrimp with the pasta primavera instead of the prosciutto (because we can only get it sliced paper thin where I live and I wanted to make the salad a little more hearty). Would you say the prosciutto is an essential ingredient?

By: Cristina

Cristina — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:41:03 +0000

Exceptional, fast and easy pork chop recipe. The one thing I changed, based on your comments about the garlic, was put it through a garlic press in lieu of mincing. This made for no burning of broiled garlic pieces. A huge hit at my house. Thank you!!