Hot Chocolate
With happy anticipation,
My fingers hug my mug,
Warming my hands
And body whole.
Smooth and soothing,
The chocolatey trickles,
Down my throat as I sip;
Warm ripples of contentment roll.
Soft melting marshmallows
Float atop;
Silky pillows of sweetness.
Comfort for a busy mind
Nurturing body and soul,
Hot Chocolate!
Stephanie Boase
Playing With Your Food
The beans stood on the boundary.
The spuds were in the slips.
The carrot stood at silly point.
At gully were the chips.
At deep square leg the celery was ready with the dips.
The VI Peas were in the stands and banking on a draw.
The soup came steaming in to bowl.
You should’ve heard the roar.
But the apple read the line and length,
and tonked the ball for four.
The veggies needed wickets, so they introduced a spinner,
an aubergine, that many times had proved to be a winner,
and now it had the chance to gain the upper hand at dinner.
A fizzing ball just clipped the pads.
“Howzat!” cried Brussel Sprout.
The spuds appealed in unison.
There wasn’t any doubt.
The pepper grinder quite agreed and gave the lemon out.
The fruits were looking shaky, so the veg sent on their quicks,
who fired down some bouncers with a googly in the mix,
but the avocado wasn’t fazed and smashed them all for six.
Now the apple at the city end just needed one more run,
and when it smacked a cover drive it knew the game was won.
Oh, what a way to end the match and score a maiden ton.
Yes, playing with your food is wrong, but also heaps of fun.
Chris Owen 2018
Winter and Hot Chocolate go hand in hand.
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Cheers
Jeanie
And this weeks quote:
The ghost who stole my Vegemite
Have you heard of the ghost
who stole my Vegemite toast?
A disgusting event —
more disgusting than most!
I’d spread it on thickly —
’twas the way I liked it —
but the ghost just took it,
and then he hiked it.
So if you spy a ghost
whose mouth is all black,
please do the right thing
and give him a whack!
James Aitchison
GRANDMA’S STEW.
Sometimes I visit grandma,
And ofter stay for dinner
She always has an Irish Stew
But it is not a winner.
It has sweet potato and turnip
And awful parsnips too
These are things I do not like
To tell you of a few.
I wish she had a roast like mum’s
Now that is quite a treat
With proper roasted vegetables
And the very best of meat.
But grandma does her very best
She’s set in all her ways
She’s made stew for fifty years
And twenty seven days.
I know for we sat down one night
With almanacs and such
She worked it out, she is so bright
She hasn’t lost her touch.
Queen Of Dried Fruit
A sultan many years ago
was lounging on his patio
and eating grapes fresh from the vine
that had a mellow yellow shine.
A sultan is a kind of king
who never cleans up anything.
He didn’t finish all the bunch
before he went inside for lunch.
His naughty servants didn’t care
and left the plate of grapes out there.
With all the sun and wafting breeze
those grapes dried to the size of peas.
Their wrinkly skins now golden brown
provoked the king to make a frown.
But thinking they were some new treat
those old dry grapes he tried to eat!
The servants feared he might get ill
then one of them he’d want to kill.
But as he chewed he tapped his feet
then said, Yum-yum. They taste so sweet!
Their name’s sultana, like my wife.
The queen of all that’s sweet in life.
But was it that he also knew
she’d soon go brown and wrinkly too?
Veggie Monster – teacher notes –
Activity – Class debate on “Advertising and Prime Time TV, Their Role in Demonising Vegetables”
Activity – Make up an advertising campaign to popularise vegetables. Research TV advertisements and prime time TV shows to see what sort of food is promoted and how. I can think of one popular TV soapie, which has its cast eating pizza and drinking beer in most episodes. What does this say to young viewers.
Note what sort of advertisements come on between 4.00pm and 8.00pm, the time many children, families and young folk would be watching TV. How might you use your campaign to change this?
Activity – Make up recipes with vegetables as the main ingredients – they must be delicious enough that YOU would want to eat them! If there are any vegetarians in the class, ask them to be a consultative panel and to judge the result of the class cooking attempts to make veggies into taste tempting foods!
