Iceberg lettuce
"focus your palate as you take a bite and notice a clean sweetness blooming beneath the watery crunch, deepening, in the pale ruffle of...
Or
I shall choose a picture I have come across and extemporise on that.
Lucky dip
Every now and then I get stuck and so one strategy I have devised is to go to one of my three cook book bookshelves, close my eyes and pick a book. Close my eyes again and pick a page. It's really quite an enlightening method of getting over writer's block.
'A word from'
My second strategy is to devote a post to the thoughts of one of my favourite cooks. Hopefully it will introduce them to you.
A second kind of lucky dip
I have been thinking about first recipes in cook books - so I shall choose a book not quite randomly and then look at the first recipe for inspiration.