LEMON

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SALTED CARAMEL

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I remember

The day I first heard

Salted Caramel

Was a thing.

That first eyes-closed

Sampling

The fudgy glory of it

The tang that twitched

Those salt-exalting buds

Making the flat golden

Saucy flow more edgy

Rewriting the mythic

Taste map of the tongue.

Not so the sea.

She is unimpressed

By her crystalline children

Strutting their way into

Coffee shops and eateries

Robed in sugar toffee puddles.

She is the sea

After all.

Perfect in every wave

Ebbing or breaking.

Secretly, though,

She must be proud

To be part of it,

Swelling her saline heart

At mothering such joy.

Goatsucker Harvest: Coconut Cake!

Readers of "Goatsucker Harvest" will understand why the arrival of this little delicacy on my doormat caused such hilarity!

It was part of the first "Graze Box" I've had in a while and plopped onto my mat with this morning's post.
New item - "Coconut Crumble Cake." No, actually, the "prickly texture of straw and horsehair and a sickly sweetness like treacle mixed with sawdust" didn't apply this time! This piece has a saucy little passionfruit and mango dip with it!

“Where is your plate, Theresa? You must try the coconut cake. The receipt is a closely-guarded secret and the ingredients imported especially, I believe. Neither the hoi, nor, indeed, the polloi have tasted this.”

“Your new cook's clever to make something...” she coughed, searching for a polite word that would also be true, “ ... so different.” 'Delicious' would have been cruel flattery. Different it certainly was from anything Thirza had tasted on land or sea."

All quotes taken from "Goatsucker Harvest" [Kindle Edition] Chapter 5 'Carrdyke' (c) Joyce Barrass 2014