A Reminder: These short stories are from a writing program called Round Robin. Write something every day, set the timer for 12 minutes, the title of each piece is the daily prompt. Stop writing once the alarm goes off.
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Chef Tom’s 3 Short Stories and a Citrus Salad
Posted in Food, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, cater, catering, cheftom, citrus, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, dope smoke, drama class, flashlight, Food, foodie, fundraiser, gluten free, Grapefruit, healthy, healthy recipe, high school, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, Indian, janitor, Morse code, Opinion, radicchio, Recipe, Salad, San Francisco, Short Stories, short story, Tom Herndon, Winter on February 29, 2020 by segarini
A Reminder: These short stories are from a writing program called Round Robin. Write something every day, set the timer for 12 minutes, the title of each piece is the daily prompt. Stop writing once the alarm goes off.
Chef Tom – Short Ribs and Short Stories
Posted in Fiction, Food, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, Chef Tom, closet, comfort food, coming out, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, food blog, foodie, gay, gluten free, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, Opinion, Paris, Recipe, San Francisco, Short Stories, short story, St. Germaine, Tom Herndon, trans, transition, Winter on February 15, 2020 by segarini
A Reminder: These short stories are from a writing program called Round Robin. Write something every day, set the timer for 12 minutes, the title of each piece is the daily prompt. Stop writing once the alarm goes off.
Chef Tom’s 3 Small Stories and Char Siu-BBQ Chinese Pork
Posted in Food, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags 5-spice, allergen friendly, bed springs, Bob Segarini, brunch, Char Siu, cheftom, Chinese food, city dump, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Florence, Food, foodie, funeral, gluten free, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, Italy, memorial, old clothes, Opinion, Ponte Santa Trinita, Ponte Vecchio, pork roast, Recipe, roast pork, San Francisco, scavenger hunt, scrounging, Short Stories, short story, sleeping in, steamer trunk, Tom Herndon, Winter on February 8, 2020 by segariniA Reminder: These short stories are from a writing program called Round Robin. Write something every day, set the timer for 12 minutes, the title of each piece is the daily prompt. Stop writing once the alarm goes off.
Chef Tom, A Wood Sprite Trilogy, and Chicken ….
Posted in Fiction, Food, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, cheftom, Chicken, Chicken Scarpariello, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Faery, fairy tale, Fantasy, Food, foodie, gluten free, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, Opinion, Parking, parking garage, Recipe, savory, Short Stories, short story, Tom Herndon, Winter, Wood Sprite on February 1, 2020 by segarini
Reminder: These short stories are from a writing program called Round Robin. Write something every day, set the timer for 12 minutes, the title of each piece is the daily prompt. Stop writing once the alarm goes off. Continue reading
Chef Tom – More Short Stories and Pork Chops!
Posted in Fiction, Food, Opinion with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, bully, cheftom, closet case, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, experiment, Food, foodie, ganja, gluten free, grade school, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, lab, magic mushrooms, Opinion, Recipe, redwoods, Short Stories, short story, stoned, Tom Herndon, Winter on January 25, 2020 by segarini
Light Beneath the Door
I step up to the door of her lab. Three short knocks is what she wants to hear when dinner is ready. Nothing more, nothing less. Just like every other evening at this time.
I raise my fist to wrap on the metal three times and notice the light from inside the lab sneaking out from under the door to illuminate the toes of my shoes. Just as I draw back my fist, I hear from behind the barrier a loud Crackle! Buzz! Pop! and watch the light on my shoes flash from yellow to blue to white and back again.
Silence.
Chef Tom – A Short Story and a Drool-Worthy Recipe
Posted in Fiction, Food, Recipe with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, cheftom, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, foodie, fur, fur trader, gluten free, healthy recipe, Hipp Kitchen, hippkitchen, Ojibwe, Opinion, Recipe, San Francisco, Short Stories, short story, snuff, snuffbox, Tom Herndon, two-spirit, Winter on January 18, 2020 by segarini
I’ve written a series of very short stories as part of a program called Round Robin. For eight weeks we had to write something every day based on short “prompts” from the instructor. Had to set the timer for 12 minutes. Not any longer, hence their brevity. Tried to squeeze as much into a few paragraphs as I could. Some stories, as you will see below, even had multiple chapters.
Alarm goes off…stop writing.
WARNING: These stories are for entertainment only.
The daily prompt is the title.
Chef Tom – Three More Stories and Espresso Chili!
Posted in Food, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags allergen friendly, Bob Segarini, cheftom, Chili, chili context winner, comfort food, cooking, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, foodie, gluten free, healthy recipe, hippkitchen, San Francisco, Short Stories, short story, Tom Herndon, Winter on December 14, 2019 by segarini
If you would be so kind as to indulge me, the next few submissions will include three (very) short stories I’ve written as part of a program called Round Robin. For eight weeks we had to write something every day based on short “prompts” from the instructor. We had to set the timer for 12 minutes. No longer. Hence their brevity. Had to squeeze as much into a few paragraphs as I could. Some stories, as you will see, even have multiple chapters.
Alarm goes off…stop writing.
WARNING: These stories are for entertainment only. If you’re not up to escaping for a couple of minutes and allowing each short story to unfold on its own without much in the “deeper meaning” department, please do not read.
Chef Tom – Pork and Veggie Bowls
Posted in Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags Chef Tom, Chef Tom Herndon, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Food, food porn, foodie, gluten free, Healthy Food, healthy recipes, Hipp Kitchen, Mediterranean, One-Bowl Meal, Pork Products, Recipe, segarini on November 10, 2018 by segarini
This lunch had been repeated a few times because it’s so damn satisfying. It takes paying attention to timing to have everything ready at the same time, but when it all comes together, the homey colors, soulful flavors and fresh crunch make a most nourishing one-bowl meal.
Chef Tom – These Recipes are Fast and Easy…Just Like Me
Posted in Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags cheftom, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, fast recipes, food porn, foodie, hippkitchen, Mediterranean Diet, nectarines, paleo diet, ribeye, San Francisco, segarini, Stonefruit, summer food on October 6, 2018 by segarini
This one was a happy accident. It’s still stonefruit season, at least for another couple of weeks. I cut firm-ripe nectarines into quarters. I was prepping them to be grilled and mixed in with roasted broccolini and baby potatoes. This mix was to be served with grilled ribeye (recipe below).
The nectarines went into a big bowl, then I drizzled them with some good olive oil, sprinkled some salt and pepper, and mixed them by hand to distribute. I just happened to try one to test the seasoning and OMG! Grilled this way was excellent, but RAW was killer. I ended up serving just this – raw seasoned nectarines – at a potluck the next weekend cuz it was so good. You could use peaches, or both. Don’t matter. The olive oil and S&P on the fruit is amazeballs.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 