Collectors Buttons

Buttons and Recipes

Collectors’ Items – Recipes and Buttons!

Buttons are like recipes,
each a different taste or colour.
Each tie thread or hunger
from breast to torso to face
the world their way on.

Buttons are fancy bridal white
subtle mother of pearl,
black with brassy anchor
or Edwardian jewel insert.
Crocheted rose or woollen
satin stitched, a leaf, plastic
moulded or silver filigree – a
button is a fashion fastening
one size fits all isn’t said, nor
is unisex!

Harris Tweed leather woven,
a romantic heart enameled
or tiny whites line a work
shirt, or duffle coat toggles,
keeping out the cold.
Summer corn yellow, puffs
of popcorn patterns, marbled
Oriental, teal and terracotta.
Baby pinks and mauves, royal
blue, designer black, an amber
jewel shines through.

Tapestry threaded, chocolate
twirls, beaded and laced they
sit rounded, expectant, thumbed,
twinkling or dull, hoping not to
come loose and lie forgotten
down a sofa, or worse, down a drain
or loo! Decorative and useful, just
like recipes, what tales they could
tell, especially from a camel
coat’s point of view!


Finally I've managed to create a good
pumpkin soup in my slow cooker:-

1/2 a small pumpkin or 1 buttercup
cut up small and peeled.
1 carrot, peeled and cut up lengthwise smallish.
1 onion peeled and diced with 4 cloves garlic
cook these for 3mins in the microwave
2 handfuls of red lentils
teaspn. cumin
teaspn. tumeric
and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper
salt
Put everything in slow cooker and
almost cover with hot water.
Cook for 5/6 hours on low and when
tender and slightly cooled, blend, yummy.