Category Archives: Food

Black & White: Things Found in a Kitchen

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My grandmother’s cast iron skillet. I remember cooking breakfast with it. I’d pour in the Crisco oil, about an inch deep, and crack the eggs on the side, trying to use just enough force to crack them open without breaking the yolks or having the shell fall into the oil. The eggs weren’t so much fried as poached in oil. I’d get the oil too hot and it would splatter as I dropped in the eggs. They always ended up with the crispy lace edges. My brother’s skillet specialty was bacon, really crispy bacon. Ah, if skillets could only talk . . .

Grandmother's cast iron skillet, full of memories

Grandmother’s cast iron skillet, full of memories

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things Found in a Kitchen

Fiction Friday: Lunch Can Wait

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Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Friday Fictioneer prompt. Copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Friday Fictioneer prompt. Copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Lunch Can Wait

Jeannie came out onto the balcony to call to her grandfather, Big John. She had a salad, sandwiches, sweet tea and brownies ready for their lunch. She could see him at the picnic table with Sally. Sally was spending the summer with her grandchildren, a few streets over.

The breeze kept mussing up Sally’s curls. Big John reached up, trying to put the strands back behind her ear. Smiling, Sally took his hand and cupped it with both of hers. Snippets of their laughter drifted up.

They are just so darn cute at that age, Jeannie thought. Lunch can wait.
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Empty Bowl

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I went to Austin’s Empty Bowl Project for the first time this year. It’s in its 18th year, but I don’t know what I was doing the other 17 years. The event benefits several Austin-area charities that take care of people in need. How it works: You buy a beautiful, handmade ceramic bowl for $20, fill it up with yummy soup and take the bowl home with you.

My plan was to show up early before everyone else did. The first part of my plan worked: I showed up early. The second part — “before everyone else” — not so much. I got to stand in line with lots of people with the same “show up early” plan. Still, it was a nice day in November and I was only mildly overdressed.

A really long line at the Austin Empty Bowl Project

Hundreds and hundreds of my closest friends

A large soup pot and spoon were available for photo ops.

A child in the large soup pot

Soup pot

Once inside, there were tables and tables filled with bowls to choose from. There were no bad choices.

A round table with lots and lots of ceramic bowls to choose from

So many, so beautiful

After you choose your bowl, volunteers wash and rinse it for you. (I just love it when someone else does the dishes, don’t you?) Next, you get in line for some soup, provided by local food establishments (several soups to choose from), and then it’s soup time! My bowl (it’s signed on the bottom) was made by Jessica of Girl Scout Troop 449 and I think it’s beautiful! Thank you, Jessica!

My ceramic bowl filled with pumpkin soup next to a bread roll

Yummy pumpkin soup and bread