The Winners of February's Food Poetry Competition!

Congratulations to Kate Silvester, Tom Stone (twice monthly winner!) and an anonymous entry. Please read the following and enjoy!

February's Theme: Vegetables

Italy

Sliced beefsteak tomatoes

on a bed of crisp spinach.

A sprinkle of fresh basil

and a dribble of extra virgin olive oil.

Add generous slabs of buffalo mozzarella

and a sheen of balsamic vinegar.

A thin, crisp dough base

covered in freshly beaten tomatoes.

Crushed garlic cloves, just picked oregano.

Slices of local goats cheese melt

accompanied by a helping of aged prosciutto.

Add rocket tossed in olive oil once cooked

for a tingle on your taste buds.

Linguine pasta, freshly made,

bubbling for five minutes.

Add some salt and pepper,

some crushed tomatoes.

Introduce clams, prawns, tuna

and lashings of garlic.

Flavours exploding; your perfect pasta dish.

Kate Silvester

THE VEGETABLE

Sharpened Carrots

Frozen Peas

All my favourite

Edible weapons

Clara won’t

Eat her vegetables

So now she must die

Before she gets fat

She'll be picked on at school

I can't let that happen

So I'm going to kill her

Frozen peas to the forehead

Should do it

Oh dear

I’ve dropped one of

the carrots

It’s sticking out of my knee

Along with

Lots of blood

Ouch

I can’t walk

Oh the irony

For now I am

The vegetable

Tom Stone

The Onion

I usually halve it,

cut it through the root

and roughly chop:

It could get tossed in a salad,

fried with bangers and mash

or thrown in a cheese roll –

but when I cook for you,

I take my time;

I leave the root whole

and slice slowly,

each piece exactly even,

then add to a stew

and leave it to simmer.

Anon

Please look out for March's Competition with the new Monthly theme.