The Perils of Chicken Scrawl ...

I had grand plans to turn this page into a recipe page in my sketchbook

of course I hadn't planned on figs being quite such a task to paint

not to mention the packet of pine nuts

painting individual pine nuts is not conducive to sane thoughts it turns out

but a bit of a swirl of paint and a few squiggly lines and that was seen to

and in the end I quite liked how the page turned out

I was pleased with the figs in their lovely knobbly bowl

which did give me some moments

but I was happy with their figginess in general

and I do love fresh figs

we have been figging out big time while they are in season

fig slice, fig tarts, figs in salads

and my favourite which is figs baked with ginger infused honey

it is a perfect dessert

so I thought I would celebrate it's deliciousness

and write it into the page like all those gorgeous illustrated recipes I see

So I painted it up and was about to put pen to page

when it hit me that my penmanship is not that legible

in fact not legible at all to anyone else but me

it has been likened to chicken scrawl

but they were being kind

we are talking a chicken drunk out of its brain and trying to write with its toes scrawl

less kind was the comment made by a certain Phantom

that it could be used to confuse the enemy in time of war

as it would take a whole cryptography department months to decode

of course Phantom has perfect penmanship, which is one of her more annoying traits

though can I say that getting to fill in forms at the back of her school diary with my scrawl

and getting to watch her pale at the sight of my notes messing up her pristine book

is true parenting revenge delight!

There is merit in both of these descriptions of my scriobbles however

and I accept my limitations

so the page remains blank for now

and at the end of the day I was going to write that you drizzle the figs with honey

whack them in the oven, get them out when they go squidgy

then serve with yogurt and pine nuts

so hardly a recipe is it and I am figuring I can remember what to do

as I have done it many times before

which means the page can stay oddly blank in the middle for now

So I am sharing it as it is

blank middle and all rather than muck it up

I am sure at some stage I will scrawl the notes down

but for now I am enjoying just as it is

Hope you are all having a great Sunday ...xx

Linking up with Sunday Sketches 

My last two post links are here and both are food related as well

seems I have a bit of a theme happening at the moment ...

The Party That Never Was ...

Wagamama Monday ...