Picture it & Write

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art, cooking, fish, food, meals, photography, poetry, seafood, surealism

Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.

Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.

Original image found at The Design Work.

You are what you eat. It’s a common enough phrase. Eat fat, you’ll be fat. Eat healthy, you’ll be healthy. People tend to ignore medical conditions, but that’s besides the point. What if you eat an angry fish or scared head of kale? Are our emotions tied to what we eat as well?

–Eliabeth Hawthorne

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__may the oreos be forever in your favor

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books, cooking, food, funny, hunger games, oreos

 

 

Just in case your oreo-life is too boring. Eat a fight-for-your-life oreo today! 😀 Not only is it talented work but it also looks so very delicious… nomnomnom.

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__information is food

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cartoon, consumption, cooking, diet, drawing, fiction, food, information, inspiration, life, reading, recipe, technology, TEDtalk, video, writing

I recently watched JP Rangaswarmi’s TEDtalk on information. It inspired me to write this post which includes a summary of what he talks about and my thoughts. At first, I thought it was all a bit silly. Seeing information as food? I could get the obvious analogies but I didn’t really see why looking at it from that perspective was of any use. But then I kept thinking a bit more…

__picture it & write

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brownie, cooking, fiction, food, health, ice cream, judgement, life, photography, poetry, relationships, stories, writing

I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (provide a translation please :)). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph has been reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr.

I thanked the waitress as she placed the brownie before me. My mother-in-law stared at it with pursed lips. The woman’s skin stretched over her petite frame, she was dry like a prune. I glanced at the ice cream as it began to melt, it hugged the brownie. “That looks,” my mother-in-law paused. “Creamy.” Heat flushed my cheeks and a nervous knot tightened in my stomach. I found it hard to keep my salivating tongue at bay. I wanted to eat the brownie but with my skeletal mother-in-law judging me I didn’t know if I could. “Hows the baby?” My in-law pried. “Still big?” The brownie was soaking up the cream like a sponge. A spark of anger energized my fingers. “Healthy,” I snapped and sunk my fork spitefully into the heart of my desert.

– Ermisenda Alvarez

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Ode to Bill Cosby – Chocolate Cake for Breakfast

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Bill Cosby, chocolate cake, cooking, failure, recipes

There is an endless supply of ill fated cooking attempts with me as the star.  This one just happens to be a tribute to Bill Cosby who once served his kids chocolate cake for breakfast.

No one was threatening me with a bucket of ice water, I just wanted chocolate pancakes.  Couldn’t be that hard right?  Well I rummaged around in the pantry and found muffin mix.  On the back of the mix was a picture of a chocolate bread loaf so clearly this was a multipurpose mix.  I poured it in a bowl, added the right amount of milk and poured it into a pan.  It was so thin it might as as well have been a crepe with mountains of chocolate chips sitting in the middle like pyramids.  So I added more.  In fact… I poured in the whole bowl.  Mistake number two.  This is the point of no return.  I could have poured the mix into the muffin tin and saved breakfast, but I did not.  I decided if I could not make pancakes, I was going to make a cake… on the stove.

You don’t have it… yet

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cooking, MasterChef, TV

Spoilers for MasterChef S2E16, do not continue if youwant to watch it but have not yet.

I do not know what drew me to this show because I do not cook.  By that I mean I have failed boiling water three times, twice with supervision.  For Christmas one year I got How To Boil Water by Food Network Kitchens.  I’ve watched head judge Gordon Ramsay completely tear into chefs on Hell’s Kitchen, throwing food and cursing them out and let me say, he terrifies me.  Yet somehow, like a guilty pleasure, I cannot stop watching his shows.

On this episode, the contestants ran the LA restaurant Patina.  There are only six chefs left and once again they divide into the blue and red teams.  Suzie and Tracy captain the teams.  Suzie’s team with Ben and Christian wins the challenge, saving them from the elimination pressure test.  Cocky Christian did manage to put his cooking where his mouth was this episode and even if he hadn’t, he would have been fine in the pressure test as someone very skilled with seafood.

The pressure test was to scale, cut up, and cook king salmon.  Poor Tracy didn’t get the tail off her fish and didn’t get the salmon in the pan in time, serving up an under cooked dish.  The teary goodbye from the stands showed that the other contestants loved her as much as I did, but the heartwarming surprise came after her elimination.

Usually the judges say goodbye, sometimes with words of encouragement and sometimes not.  For Tracy, it was a resounding, you have the skill, you’re just not there yet.  Before dismissing her, told her they were giving her complementary cooking classes MasterChef Enthusiast classes for a year.  Upon completion, they offered her a job at any of their restaurants.  It was a tearjerker moment.