brain food

life is but a

melancholy flower

life is

and from youth the matter

suffers a decline

from the airy sanguine

through choleric blood

to the melancholic earth

life is butter

the phlegmatic young

may be enjoyed lightly inspired

life is but a melon

yellow bile

honeydew

black bile

piel de sapo

but with individuals displaying

a darker humour

other culinary techniques must be employed

up to the testing of by fire

for best results

look for a cream colouration

indicating a level of maturation

blood and phlegm

life is but a melon

Cantaloupe

Charentais

Galia

Galen

Water

Too, too solid Air

but not yet too advanced

while the firm flesh should offer

some light resistance

life is but a melancholy flower

blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm

as the palpating fingertips

carefully check each ventricle

for blemishes and irritations

pineal parasites, pests and aberrations

Other    Dark    Spots

the frogskin of encasing leaves

should be removed

and the stem severed at the base

to thus allow extraction

from the cranium case

having washed the whole

separate the lobes

parietal

occipital

frontal

temporal

a melancholy flower

and with a sharp blade

sever the cortex

right through the stem

"Basal ganglia" by Mikael Häggström and Andrew Gillies*
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from each segment

incise slices

no more and yet no less

than a centimetre thick

the which lay flat in your pan

non-stick

life is butter-melon

medulla oblongata

drizzle with a fine

extra virgin olive oil

or spread with rich butter

spice with whole cumin seed

then salt liberally

life is but a melon

a steady temperature

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/2012/08/cajun_roasted-cauliflower_steaks.jpg

Gas Mark 6 to 7

depending on the

thermal efficiency of your oven

will be sufficient

to tenderise the flesh

and caramelise the cauliflower

life is but a

life is but a

melancholy flower

melancholy flower

life is butter melon

life is but a melon

cauliflower

cauliflower

*

- Made in Inkscape. The following raster image was used for modelling:Basal-ganglia-coronal-sections-large.png (By Andrew Gillies/User:Anaru; Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike + GFDL license). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -