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Category Archives: Baking
Soft centred Sundae…..
There is such a silence this Sunday morning. Even the birds are in quiet contemplation. The soft hum of the computer and the click clack of the keyboard is all that breaks the hush. Once it would have been the … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Bad luck, baking, Baking, cake, coffee, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Les Saints de Glace, Miracle, muffin, oranges, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, St.Mamert, St.Pancrace, St.Servais, Sugar, summer, Sunday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Cake and coffee, candied fruit slices, Casting a clout before May is out, derrieres, Les Saintes Glaces, muffins, Peace and quiet, Quiet contemplation, Sunday morning, Upside down cake
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Nobody hears an apple scream…..
Had the Swiss version of apple ducking taken place in the present “caring” climate, William Tell’s son would have been whisked away by Social Services before you could say “Please, Daddy, stop firing arrows at my head”. The Swiss, with … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, apple crumble, apple tart on puff pastry, apples, baked apples, baking, Blackberry, Caroline Conran, Cookery Writers, Cooking, crumble, Demerara, desserts, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Granny Smith apples, Humour, Language, Molasses, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, Recipes, Sugar, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged American Constitution, apple ducking, arrow ducking, baking, Charlton Heston, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, demerara, desserts, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, fruit, General Custer, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, Little Big Horn, Moses, Oxymoron, Photography course, Recipes, Social Services, sugar, sweet pastry, Swiss humour, vanilla, William Tell, writing
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Ladies who lunch..Chez Papa..
Uncovering treasure is not an accurate science. I say this with an authority that I do not possess, as treasure and I are rarely, if ever, seen together or even spoken of in the same breath. The same can be … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Baking, Bistro, Choc ice, Chocolate, Coffee, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Drinks, Excellence, Expectation, family, financiers, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, friendship, harmony, Humour, Kitchens, Noa grape, perfect day, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Uncategorized, Vines, Vineyard, Wine, Writing
Tagged boudin, clear thinking, cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, french countryside, Grillades, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, La bonne table, Ladies who lunch, landscapes, loire wine, mastering the art of french cooking, modest beauty, Muscadet, nature, Pays de Loire, restaurants, Restored, Sarments, Saumur Champigny, Seven Dwarves, sweet pastry, travel, Vine cuttings, Wine, writing
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I’ll be yours in buttons and bows…..
I had a favourite aunt who was firm in the belief that men put on dresses when they wanted to appear really important, and it appears that the clergy are keen followers of my aunt’s views. The Ku Klux Klan … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Art photography, baking, cake, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, feather, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, hypocrisy, Icing sugar, Illusion, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Religion, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, buttons and bows, cake, clear thinking, Clergy, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, drabness, food, food photographers, hoops of fire, Humour, Icing sugar, incontrovertible proof, Ku Klux Klan, movers and shakers, photographic media, Pontifical, Religion, Self importance, simple logic, State Circus, writing
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the bitterness of sugar…..
Financiers the world over are suffering and my heart bleeds for them, poor little bankers. These sanguine emotions have awakened the atavistic cannibal in me, so I’ve started to eat them, financiers that is, at every opportunity. One might say … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Art photography, baking, Baking, Cooking, desserts, Excellence, financiers, financiers, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Atavistic, Avatar, baking, Bankers, Bitterness, bleeding heart, cake, Cakes, Cannibal, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, emotions, Financiers, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Lord Sugar, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, social networking, writing
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Cracks start to show in cake security..
The picture above clearly illustrates the shortcomings of the cake safe. Having made a cake, I place it on a cake stand under the cake dome where it will be free from the ravages of mice, should there be one. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, cake, Cooking, Cream, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Phantom, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Still life, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged bad manners, baking, Cake dome, cake stand, Cake theft, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, hopeless task, Humour, Jam, Photography course, Ride of the Valkyries, sheltered life, social networking, Tolerance, valkyries, Victoria Sponge, Vietnam, writing
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Hot chocolate virgin…
This country drips chocolate from every pore. In provincial France, good chocolatiers are nearly as ubiquitous as shoe shops, which only sell grotesque shoes, opticians and dodgy hair dressers upon which trio the French economy appears to depend. The illusion … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, Art photography, baking, Baking, Brownies, Digital photography, Dogs, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hot choclate, Humour, perfect day, Poodles, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, Breakfast, Brownies, Chic, chocolat chaud, Chocolate, chocolate brownies, Cocoa, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Hot Chocolate, Humour, La Rochelle, Les Francaises, Poodles, writing
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Too many cooks…..
If there is one thing that I cannot abide. If only there was but one thing, rather than the extensive and ever growing catalogue of things that I cannot abide: but that is not the case. The furnace of my … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, baking, Baking, Cooking, Cream, Dante's Inferno, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Humour, Kitchens, Memory, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Savage Breast, Sugar, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged alchemy, baking, brulee, Burning the cakes, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, food photographers, food processor, High dudgeon, Humour, Intolerance, King Alfred, mastering the art of french cooking, pastry, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, smoke fire, sweet pastry, Tarte au citron, Tolerance, Too many cooks, torture chamber, writing
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