This Writing Assignment asks you to write a recipe in only Haiku format. It is a 3 star assignment, but I would have rated it a 4. It wasn’t easy to keep all the main elements of the recipe without going away from the 5-7-5 format. I did it. I decided to find a common … Continue reading “Haiku Recipe”

For my last set of stars in the assignment bank, I am going to make a recipe into a haiku!

Boil water in the pot,

Don’t forget the mug or tea,

Pour water in cup.

I completed the 3 star assignment Haiku Recipe.

It directs us to create a recipe in haiku. Here’s mine:

Create the wort for

The brew kettle and boil hops

Add yeast and wait weeks.

This is the rough recipe for any beer. Water, yeast, malted barley, and hops are the main ingredients used to create beer. Malted barley is crushed and steeped in water which strips the sugars off of the barley to create a liquid known as wort. Wort is sugar water. Adding the wort to the brew kettle, the mixture is brought to a boil and hops are added. Adding hops near the beginning of the boil imparts more of a bitter taste, while adding hops to the end of the boil adds aroma. Taking the resulting mixture and placing it in a fermentation tank, yeast is added to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol. This process pertains to my character in so much as the saloon he works at brews their own beer for in store sales. It was the main drink at a poker game he witnessed one night…

Bartending one particular evening, my character witnessed an elegantly dressed man subjugate  poker winnings, cash, from the local miners. The visibly downtrodden faces of the miners created a depressed atmosphere. The game was supposed to be a lighthearted game of cards between locals not a miserable game of chance with a foreigner. The sharp dressed man obviously knew what he was doing. Luckily for the other miners, Merrell Shale, their coworker, had been honing his poker skills and was stirred to action. The bartender closely watched Merrell’s focus change from playing with the suds in his beer to the poker game; where at the nights end Mr. Shale managed to tactfully outmaneuver the foreigner, winning money for his coworkers. This was one of the last times the bartender saw Merrell frequent that saloon.

Both my character and another, Merrell Shale, are referred to within this assignment, satisfying this weeks directive which was to intertwine our character with another.

Melt butter in pan

Sprinkle salmon with spices

Five minutes a side

This assignment was to explain a recipe using a Haiku, using the 5-7-5 rule.

Bacon wrapped venison

marinade the venison
wrap with uncooked bacon
grill low and eat

Big day, prepare with
A breakfast of steak and eggs
Sardic’s favorite meal

Salt the porterhouse
It’s thick, so really coat it
Warm up your skillet

Medium-high heat
Speed it up with some oil
Some people use fat

Drop steak in skillet
Cook for four minutes, don’t flip
Move to cutting board

Cut steak off the bone
Filet will be on one side
Strip is the other

Heat up the broiler
Place steak cuts back on the pan
Surrounding the bone

Season how you want
Sardic just throws butter on
Maybe some pepper

Put in the broiler
And wait for medium-rare
Four to six minutes.

While the steak broils
Get out some eggs, scramble them
Or make an omelet

Everything’s ready
Eat up, you’ve got a big day
A new case came in

This is a haiku about my favorite timeless sandwich. How to make a Peanut Butter and Jelly:

Who doesn’t love it?
You know, a PB and J
So simple and good

Use your bread of choice
Take out two of the slices
Put them on a plate

Then comes the best part
Either creamy or crunchy
Peanut butter time

Spread it on one slice
While using a good amount
Now it’s halfway done

Now time for jelly
Very sticky and so sweet
Strawberry is best

Put an even coat
On the other slice of bread
Now it’s almost done

Smush the two slices
So the two line up perfect
And now it’s ready

It is the best lunch
Peanut butter and jelly
It will fill your tum

Original assignment here

Original recipe here

Melt butter, low heat
Two tablespoons unsalted
Ten inch iron pan

Quarter cup sugar,
Brown, melts with spices on stove
Allspice and nutmeg

I like it “to taste”,
But allspice and nutmeg ground
Half spoon each is good

One shot of liquor
Banana, then simmer it.
Cook two bananas

Cut in half lengthwise
For one minute on each side.
Move fruit to the dish.

Add three shots dark rum.
Set it all on fire! Ignite!
Add a spoon of Zest.

Pour syrup over
The bananas, serve with
Crepes, nuts, or ice cream.

I decided to do bananas foster for this haiku recipe, because that is Delia LaSalle’s favorite food! This is the recipe I use myself when I make bananas foster or caramelized bananas at home. It uses extra alcohol and spices. I like to serve it over ice cream or waffles- yum! I thought that this would be an appropriate assignment to relate to Delia, because she enjoys cooking and lives in the culinary heart of the south. When the rest of America decided that eating all-white food (mashed potatoes, vanilla pudding, cream of potato soup, gelatinized tuna) was trendy, the NOLA region stuck by its roux and rice tradition.

Here, I used notepad to write again so that I could refer to the original recipe. Pages is a headache for simple writing like this.