My Respite

I’m getting really sick of wordpress’ inability to keep a standard system of spacing and organization in the visual aspect of posting to the site.  I’m working on learning HTML again so that I can spruce up my posts (when I get around to putting up new material) but I’m still only in the “refresh my knowledge” phase so it may be a while as this is not the largest priority on my list of things to accomplish.  Perhaps I should take the time and reorder those priorities, eh?

Pure M. Alice

Her smile was
The exquisite sting
of a thousand sunburns
Rolled into one
Gigavolt gaze.

The Last Week – Baking and Cleaning

It’s been a long time coming.  This apartment has needed a good overhaul for a long time and we finally got down to it.  Tensions had been rather high and it all culminated in a mass cleaning and reorganization of the apartment.  Corners that had not been cleaned for almost a year got vacuumed and the dishes that had been piling up all got cleaned and put away.  The apartment has never looked better to me and I’ve been going crazy in the kitchen.

A long time ago my mother and I had a conversation about nutrition, diet and the nutrient values in certain foods.  She brought up a website that graphed the nutrient values of raw ingredients in a pie chart.  I have not been able to find that site again, course I have not put a tremendous effort into that either, however, what I do remember rather vividly from the site and the information contained there in, is, that combining spinach, mushrooms and tuna in the right amounts will give you almost 100% of all the vitamins and nutrients that a grown adult will need in a single day.  No amount of any one ingredient was more than 4 oz.  and so I’ve been mulling over in my head for a long time now a way to work all those items into a single dish.  I’ve included below, a recipe that has come as a result of all this pondering.

Dough (Stromboli and Bowl Pies)

2 cups flour
2/3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¼ cup oil (olive, salad, vegetable…)
2/3 cup milk
2 eggs (separated: whites and yolks)
¼ teaspoon ground rosemary
¼ teaspoon ground thyme

1. In a large bowl combine 2 cups flour and all other dry ingredients and make a well in the center.
2. Mix egg whites, oil & milk together thoroughly before pouring into well.
3. Mix wet into dry from inside to the out until dough becomes a sticky ball.
4. Add 2/3 cups flour to bowl and knead until completely incorporated.
5. Divide dough into portions and roll to fit pan or bowl.

Ricotta, Spinach, Mushroom Filling (Pirogues, Stromboli’s and other Pies)

13 ½ oz. Canned Spinach (drained)
14 oz. Canned Mushrooms (sliced & drained)
1 whole clove garlic (crushed then diced)
2 oz. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
3 cups Ricotta Cheese

1. Crush and dice garlic, roast in olive oil in oven @ 200 degrees F for 30 minutes.
2. Combine Spinach and mushrooms in large food processor and blend until pureed
3. Add in garlic & oil, and Ricotta cheese, blending till fully incorporated.
4. Portion into preferred: Stromboli, Pirogue, or Hand Pie.

I’ve used the mixture or filling outlined above as: a sauce on a pizza, a pirogi filling, and in a Stromboli; all of which have turned out better than I could have imagined.  I wish that I could put a little scratch and sniff link on this site so you could smell the way my kitchen and apartment smell right now.  If you did not have an appetite, you would if you could smell this.

I just finished cooking and cleaning up from the last batch of awesome baking and I’m so hyped up.  I made some stromboli and a bowl pie (soup bowl) with the RSM Filling, Baby Spinach, Sweet Sausage, Peperoni, Crimini, Shitake and Portabella Mushrooms, Asiago and Mozzeralla Cheese.  I could get fat if I keep cooking like this.  Now I’m going to enjoy a little time sitting and vegging out on my xbox.  Hope you all enjoy the recipe.

An Imperfect Servent

Beautiful Frowns

Model : Lindsay Chevalier
Photographer and Original Editing Technician: Joshua Copeland
Addition of Poem and Poem itself : Brandon Stauffer

Infatuation – An Answer

And so to bare all
I do put my purpose true
And plot course for shores of change
Looking daily in the mirror of truths

With new sight
Do I gaze upon the world
All her inhabitants a wondrous dance
A moving picture we get only a glance

Renewing trust
In hopes of love’s requite
I bid thee welcome this night
When come the morning nigh
We’ll watch the dawn
Break upon the sky.

Inspired by the poem, Infatuation by Amanda Sanz

P.I.M.P.

The World In a Bottle

The World In a Bottle
Cork stopper loose
And the cat got the goose
Feathers are flying everywhere
I’ve got no cares cause I’ve got
The world in a bottle

The World in a Bottle
What a wonderful thing
Dissolve in an acid
Look out for the chemical reaction
Let’s leave our lasting impression on
The world in a bottle

The World in a Bottle
People in glass houses
All throwing stones at their spouses
Let’s douse the flames of the blaze
End the hate, the greed of
The world in a bottle.

Inspired by the second to last line in the poem Thoughts of a Feather by 13rothervvolf

P.I.M.P.

My absence

Some of it can be attributed to the holidays, perhaps even some of it can be chalked up to the winter blues, but I would be remiss if I was not to accept the majority of the responsibility for the neglect of my blog and the Poetry Corner.  Seeing as many areas of my life could use a little improvement, this is just one of the ways I seek to better myself.  As part of this new year I hope to discipline myself to a more regular visitation of those blogs that have inspired me in the past as well as continue to inspire me.   In an effort to be a little more productive even through the lack of ability to access the site while on my most down time during the day, I will be e-mailing in snippets of poetry to another wordpress site.  In fact, this site will be a random draft site for inspiration in the raw.  As such it will currently remain private, though I am toying with the idea of allowing access to a select few via password.  This would be on a trial basis and would enable contribution to the creative process.
I hope to renew my contribution to the artistic society by renewing my contributions to this blog.  Here’s to the future and the new year.

The Charges

Dream Spun Lust

This skin on skin
This flesh on flesh
This kiss and caress
A moment of bliss
Tempting towards
Intoxication

Generating an energy
A resonating frequency
This habit of the night
With cowl and dark cape
Comes calling with
Secret whispers of
sensual solace.

Hells Inferno

The ugly orange sky
Like the angry iris
Of a demon’s eye
Wrapped malevolently
Around the pupil
Of the Earth

Her great human inhabitants
All too eager students
In the subjects
Of self inflicted
Pain and suffering.

In the fires
Of their irrational ire
While the scorched skies
Dry flaming cries
Of the damned.