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Category Archives: cake
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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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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Je mange bien tous les jours….the story of book
I once bought a book at a butchers. It was a very wonderful butchers’ shop called Randall & Aubin which has now become an equally wonderful fish restaurant called Randall & Aubin, and is to be found in Brewer St. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, cake, Chocolate, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Humour, Laurence Mery-Clark, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Randall & Aubin, Shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged arts, baking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Elizabeth David, Film Editors, food, food photographers, France, Humour, italian delis, mastering the art of french cooking, Photography course, Principles, Randall & Aubin, restaurants, social networking, Soho, writing
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If you like a firm pear, sir..
Those innocent words dropping from the lips of a helpful assistant in a fruit shop in the country town of Wallingford are still clear in my mind. Very little else of those heady days, in the early 70′s, is clear … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Bad Habits, baking, cake, Cheese, Cooking, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Excess, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Health, Pears, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Plums, Poire William, Roquefort, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, food, food photographers, France, Humour, mastering the art of french cooking, Passe Chassane, Pear & Roquefort, Photography, writing
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The first cut is the deepest…and often the best..
This is a simple and delicious recipe from the pen of Patricia Wells. Enjoy.
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Baking, Bistro, cake, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Drinks, Eau de vie, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, New Year, Patricia Wells, Pears, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Poire William, Recipes, Writing
Tagged baking, Bistro Cooking, cake, cooking, delicious recipe, food, food photographers, France, mastering the art of french cooking, New Year, patricia wells, Photography, writing
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Myrhh balls…
The sun today has been smothered under a dull, damp, grey cushion leaving the world silent and lifeless. I have the feeling that nature is in mourning, and with every reason as it feels as though the kind has been … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Landscapes, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, Cooking, food, Chocolate, desserts, Patricia Wells, French countryside, Cookery Writers, photography course, Baking, harmony, Pears, 2012, Food photographer, cake, Bistro, Poire William, Humour, Art photography, Excellence, Weather, Emotion, Christmas, Myrrh
Tagged baking, Christmas, food, food photographers, France, landscapes, misty morning, modest beauty, outdoors, patricia wells, photographic media, Photography, sweet pastry
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You can never be too thin or too rich..
Nancy Reagan would have thrown herself from a tall building rather than let a crumb of this intense chocolate and prune d’Agen cake pass her lips. As she performed the only swallow that would save her from a fate worse … Continue reading
Posted in baking, cake, Chocolate, Chocolate and prune cake, Cookery Writers, Cooking, David Leibovitz, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Prunes d'Agen, Writing
Tagged food, nancy reagan, restaurants, single malt, travel, vacation
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The Curate’s Cake…
As with the Curate’s egg, this cake was good in parts. The reason for the incompleteness of this delicious recipe, a marmalade cake which originates in the current issue of Jamie Magazine, was a sad lack of concentration. It is … Continue reading
