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A Food Writing Prompt

The hearty spud

A versatile delight

Hilda Carroll
The Brain is a Noodle
1 min readOct 31, 2021

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Photo by Łukasz Rawa on Unsplash

You can’t beat them roasted
But that’s an awful lot of work
And quite a long wait
When all you need for culinary bliss
Is to boil for twenty minutes
And enjoy with salt and butter —
Too bad I don’t eat dairy anymore.

So I roast them
And fry them
And add them to soup
And stews
Occasionally I will mash them
But that calls for a floury variety
That I rarely buy.

My mother makes potato cakes
As my granny did before her
And they are simply divine
But no matter how I try
Mine never taste right
And I’ve given up trying —
I’m looking forward to my next visit home.

Thanks to for inviting me to smash the writer’s block — it worked. The challenge was to write about a food that appears in spherical or round shape and submit it to The Brain is a Noodle.

Tomorrow we move into the darkest half of the year, and I think I typically read and write more during these months anyway, so hopefully my words will be flowing more in the weeks to come.

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Hilda Carroll
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Hilda Carroll is a writer, meditation teacher and interior designer who helps people create sanctuary in their homes and lives. www.hildacarroll.com

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