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Your Basic Roux.
To make your basic roux
from which all your dishes
will spring.1st a verb or two
add nouns and adjectives
To taste, let those age
on the bone for a year
or five and make sure
to top up with nouns to
keep your Roux alive.
Stir constantly or it will
stick to the side you
need a consistency
just so. Take a sample
Sometime and throw it
at a wall or person if it
sticks it's ready for use
collect adjectives that
Folk use in everyday talk
these will add flavour to
the basic roux, these can
be simmered for a hundred
Year or more. Use at will.
but caution, some are very
strong and may spoil the
broth. Timely punctuation
Of your basic roux may give
more meaning to the flavour
but once again caution you
may confuse some who
Have no sense, of, taste!
A pinch of reality, the scent
of fear folded in and rolled
out with imagination shaken
On top and then pricked to
impart a pretty pattern. Here,
don't overdo the decoration
of your dish, a little goes a
Long way and may age well
if not some natural colouring
and, perhaps, a swirl of cream
to taste, a drop of brandy in
The mix, for that surprise en flambe?
En, Voilą, a dish fit to make
all your future creations, sweet or
sour, your basic roux?
from which all your dishes
will spring.1st a verb or two
add nouns and adjectives
To taste, let those age
on the bone for a year
or five and make sure
to top up with nouns to
keep your Roux alive.
Stir constantly or it will
stick to the side you
need a consistency
just so. Take a sample
Sometime and throw it
at a wall or person if it
sticks it's ready for use
collect adjectives that
Folk use in everyday talk
these will add flavour to
the basic roux, these can
be simmered for a hundred
Year or more. Use at will.
but caution, some are very
strong and may spoil the
broth. Timely punctuation
Of your basic roux may give
more meaning to the flavour
but once again caution you
may confuse some who
Have no sense, of, taste!
A pinch of reality, the scent
of fear folded in and rolled
out with imagination shaken
On top and then pricked to
impart a pretty pattern. Here,
don't overdo the decoration
of your dish, a little goes a
Long way and may age well
if not some natural colouring
and, perhaps, a swirl of cream
to taste, a drop of brandy in
The mix, for that surprise en flambe?
En, Voilą, a dish fit to make
all your future creations, sweet or
sour, your basic roux?
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