Tuesday, November 06, 2012

CD - Macbroth



Theme Thursday has the prompt ‘Soups’.

The Newbery household often has ‘Buddist Soup’ for lunch at the weekend,
where the week’s leftovers get a second chance.  These soups are 'never to be repeated' creations. 
That merged into the recent Halloween season to create the following. 
Apologies to whoever you may feel wrote Shakepeare.


Macbroth

Cook 1
It’s Sunday morn, I have a hunch

Cook 2
We’d better make a filling lunch

Cook 3
Quick!  Quick!  They are a fractious bunch!

Cook 1
A Buddhist soup shall be created
From our leftovers, reincarnated!
They shall return in another guise
(And if it fails, we’ll send out for pies.)
Let me think, what have we got
To throw into this steaming pot?

All
Potage, Potage, Buddha’s child
Never captured in the wild!

Cook 2
Carcass of a long dead chook
Into the pot to quickly cook
An onion chopped and roughly diced
Some peppers, with the seeds excised,
Some celery, as limp as any seen,
A ramekin of something green,
For a creation with the lot 
Throw them in the bubbling pot.

All
Potage, Potage, Buddha’s child
Never captured in the wild!

Cook 3
Bowl of pasta, piece of ham
Mashed potato, some diced lamb
Grated ginger and a garlic chopped
Into the seething mix is dropped.
A cup of sauce, maybe Bolognese ,
Hard to tell, seen better days.
A couple of carrots, diced quite fine
And a mug or so of cheap cask wine
Medical advice: well meant but a waste:
For a little salt will improve the taste.
Finally add some cream of corn
And Sunday lunch is roughly born!

All
Potage, Potage, Buddha’s child
Never captured in the wild!

Cook 2
Serve it with some herbs, afloat,
And a glass of wine, as an antidote.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2012
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33 comments:

  1. I don't suppose the pie option is still open?

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  2. Sounds intriguing! What's it taste like? We used to get left-over Sunday roast as Shepherd's or Cottage Pie on a Monday. That was good. Love the chorus :)

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    1. I wouldn't recommend you follow this as an exact recipe!

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  3. Hahahaaa ... sounds like what I used to do as a child with all the left-overs after dinner !! Sadly, my cooking skills never improved.

    xxx

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  4. This made me smile. I love the idea of a Buddhist soup!!

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  5. Hoping this is not what is served when I lunch at Chez Newbery!

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  6. Ha ha ... I loved this !!!

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  7. That's a souper poem, J.C.

    Er, um, a "super" poem.

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  8. Ha ha - that is souperb!

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  9. Great title! As the saying goes, waste not want not:)

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    1. Sometimes things just fall into place! :-)

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  10. My partner cooks something similar which he refers to as 'Perpetual Dinner'. It starts as one thing, but by the end of the week there is no resemblance to the first meal- and not a lot of resemblance to food either.
    I did love your variation on the hubble bubble of the three witches - thank you.

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    1. In the book 'How Green Was My Valley' they make a '30 day soup' where new ingredients are added daily, slowly changing the character of the brew.

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  11. what a really cool thought, the buddhist soup...i like that the poem is performed in a group as well, i think it goes well with the message within...

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    1. and fun play on macbeth as well...smiles.

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  12. Hillarious -- sounds like good time with the family.
    I'd like to see the artichoke as an antidote! smile

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  13. I'm afraid I will have to decline your kind invitation to lunch owing to prior engagements,arranged for the next 5 years after which time I will no longer be residing in the country. Pity, sounds delicious!

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    1. Oops!
      Clever Bottom
      (doesn't quite have the same ring to it)

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  14. Double, double, toil and trouble--ah, trying to feed a fractious bunch will make any cook attempt a witch's brew. Shakespeare (or his impostor) would be proud.

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  15. that was definitely a fun treat...not so sure about tasty though.

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  16. Wow !
    delicious sounds the soup ..
    And beautiful is the poetry ..

    I felt like singing along ...

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  17. Well composed (the words, not the soup).

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  18. Macbroth...so clever! And I love the idea of Buddhist Soup.

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  19. I love this Macbroth.... :)

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  20. I must be hungry because this Buddhist Soup almost sounds good to me, I must be hungry or something. Maybe it is adding the salt that does it. Salt makes everything taste good.

    I really enjoyed this poem and soup. Happy Theme Thursday. Have a great weekend.

    God bless.

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  21. Ha! It would take more than one glass of wine as an antidote to mashed potatoes, Bolognese and a ramekin of something green all in one pot! I like the rhythm of this, though :)

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  22. very well written and a refreshing read :)

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