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Category Archives: tart
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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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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Peachy or “Isn’t she simply smashing!”
How or why do we think of something good as peachy? Golly, I just can’t think why. There are some interesting on line definitions which include “He did a bully job” and “You look simply smashing”. These definitions may have … Continue reading
Something warm and sticky…
“Save it for a….” a/ bandage to staunch a spurting arterial bleed. b/ hat to put on your head as protection against molten lava belching from Krakatoa. c/ a rainy day. It’s not easy, I know, but then again £56, … Continue reading
Posted in apples, Apricot jam, Art photography, baking, Baking, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fools rush in, Fruit, Garden, Google, Humour, Ingrate, Money for nothing, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, Savage Breast, Still life, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, Money for nothing
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The elusive scent of past summers….
There’s a smell to the summer holidays of my youth that I can’t describe or define but which still haunts me. This friendly phantom will appear unannounced as a waft of a hardly remembered past that is filled with detail … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Apricot tart, Apricot tart, apricots, Art photography, baking, Childhood, Childhood memories, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Ghost, Phantom, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Summer holidays, tart, Writing
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And a wiser man, bearing a tart, came from the West…
..guessing that the three other “wise men” coming from the East were probably from Hackney or Dagenham, which meant that they would be bearing gifts such as incense sticks, from Frank’s Eastern Cashbar (sic – very) that smell like a … Continue reading
Posted in baking, Cooking, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, photography course, Recipes, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, sweet pastry
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A tart reply….
I’ve been busy making enemies – I think – over dialects and languages spoken between very small groups of people. I love language in all its amazing forms, but I cannot, for the life of me, see the point in … Continue reading
Friday night, and Saturday morning
There’s nothing funny here, Roger, I thought. Waking up on Saturday morning in a strange bed to the sound of unfamiliar breathing made me realise that I was the victim of my own unbelievable stupidity. Thinking back, I should have … Continue reading
No, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today..I’m afraid that ate them all
Yesterday the sun shone and the oven worked overtime. It was a day of baking. I say “a day”, but in fact it was all over quite quickly. Both the recipes were delicious and adaptable, but I’ve only included one … Continue reading
