Blackout Poetry & Pudding

Blackout Poetry is when you take text from a newspaper, magazine article, book, or wherever and redact some of the words to come up with your own poem. This week there was a workshop in the Abbey creating these poems and I joined in. It was great fun. I might be hooked. In any event it was fun to try a new creative outlet.

It was the perfect thing for a rainy morning. And a new way of looking at words. The workshop was interesting in that there were only three articles to chose from and even with that limitation there were so many interpretations in the blacking out. I loved seeing what everyone was doing.

The other thing I created this week was 7 large pans of bread & butter pudding. Those are 9 x 13 pans full of yumminess. It reminds me of Mom so much. When I lived with mom right out of college she and I used to make pans of bread pudding. She liked hers with raisins and I did not. We used to draw a line down the middle of the pan and one side was hers with raisins and the other side was the mine free of anything that would ruin the yumminess.

I had to smile this week because Anja let me make the bread & butter pudding without vine fruit (raisins, currents, etc) because there was vine fruit in the salad that evening and we’d hate to give our guests too much vine fruits. I was very very happy! And I was sure to put extra nutmeg and vanilla in my creation. It was really a good batch.