WORDLESS WEDNESDAY; COMFORT COOKING DURING QUARANTINE

27/05/202016/08/2021 / deuxiemepeau / 14 Comments

Rocket pesto and ricotta meatballs

Almond cookies

Pork pie

Buddha bowl

Frittata

glazed chicken adobo thighs

Ham cheddar and chive bread

Apple, strawberry and almond sponge

Irish soda bread

Sausage, vegetable and rosemary traybake

Smoked Salmon chilli and chive quiche

Chicken chorizo stew

Orange Breakfast Muffins

Chicken Thigh Traybake with leek, pea and vermouth sauce

Chocolate Fudge Cake

White chocolate cake with ginger biscuit base

Lamb Kofta, home made naan bread, tomato, parsley and sesame salad, garlic sauce

Scones

Carrot Cake

All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly and cooked by me too.

TRIMMING THOUGHTS LIKE PURPLE THORNS

28/04/201928/04/2019 / deuxiemepeau / 12 Comments

I take
this thistle
like I take these words,
I trim the thorns at times for desire
to be softer, sweeter, so lines can be calmer,
cleaner. I seek out the heart of the whole, for now,
for here, for this moment, for the sentiment of this song
that comes for but a season. I seek not branch nor stem, but the life
that lingers where flavour is found, where thoughts flow freer upon the page,
no longer rooted under rock, no longer locked under fear. I pierce through firm flesh
like this pen plots it’s point into the page, holding out not for the green flesh pleading for a place in purple but for the truth buried beneath the skin we have learnt to thicken,

toughen.

I cut away
at words wasteful
and suck the substance
of the tale from the source

below the scale.

All words and photography By Damien B. Donnelly

28th poem for National Poetry Writing Month

Lunch today was homemade mayonnaise and steamed artichokes and so came the poem

CHINA IN PICTURES; SHANGHAI STORIES

23/10/201616/08/2021 / deuxiemepeau / 15 Comments

Last week I was in Shanghai for work and met jet lag straight on, here are some of the pictures from that week, including 6am walks through the city while it was waking and I was searching for sleep…