Written by Frankie Heartless
I will find comfort in potato soup.
Fresh rosemary from my mother’s garden,
And roasting garlic while I dance around my kitchen.
Carefree and easy.
I’ve changed so much over the last few years.
I trade ambition for peace, hard work for happiness.
I don’t want a stellar career.
Not if I can be content for less.
I awake to the sun on my face and to the feeling I’ve been asleep for so long.
I embrace a stillness I’ve never known before and take in the quiet.
Strange how our fears can become our greatest friends.
I will choose what is right for me.
I will choose simple joys and warmth.
I will find comfort in potato soup.
Text © Frankie Heartless
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I have found comfort and food value in the potato. I purchase from my local corporate provider of such things, bags of 2-5 pounds of the not so pretty or preferred size of the product they wish for consumers purchase. Over the last couple of years I have noticed that the product in these bags has the dreaded green tint or layer. I recall that this was considered no good due to the chemical processes which are naturally occurring ( me thinx ) altering the taste of the non green layered product.
I considered that perhaps that is all part of the not so pretty sorting out process, ” Let them eat the green layer!” Perhaps this is a conspiracy of the illegal Potato picking ….persons, and not their taskmasters.
I decided to bite the bullet and purchase only two of the “premium” potatoes $old and packaged individually.
I cut into the food product and there it was, the green.
Soylent? I ask myself ( cynically ).
I went to the freezer for Corporately processed frozen potato product and placed a measure in the air fryer along with some of Margaret Atwood’s Chicken Nubbins?…. Nibbins?…Nibs?
Comfort ++.
Potato Soup -loaded – any day 🙂