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Category Archives: Cooking
Ca me donne la peche….just peachy.
Peaches are forever associated with superlatives, be it with regard to a ravishingly beautiful person, an exotic vehicle or a perfect uppercut. The expression of this perfection is often quantified in terms of “peachiness”. Having skin like a peach is … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cooking, Cream, Demerara, desserts, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, grilled peaches, Honey, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Sugar, summer, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged avoir la peche, cooking, delicious confection, demerara sugar, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, irony, mastering the art of french cooking, Peaches and cream, peachy, Photography course, recipe, Recipes, ripeness, skin like a peach, spain, superlatives, uppercut, writing
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Panning for gold….
“I break some good eggs into a bowl, I beat them well, I put in a good piece of butter in the pan. I throw the eggs into it and I shake it constantly. I am happy, monsieur, if this … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Breakfast, Cooking, Digital photography, Eggs, Elizabeth David, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fried eggs, La Mere Poulard, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, summer, Table manners, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Breakfast, clear thinking, cooking, copper pan, copper pans, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, fried egg, Good things, Gustave Courbet, Humour, La Mere Poulard, mastering the art of french cooking, mere poulard, Musee d'Orsay, natural beauty, Omelettes, Photography course, Recipes, simple logic, substantial breakfast, The Origin of the World, writing
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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 Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, Cooking, food, desserts, Caroline Conran, baking, Fruit, Cookery Writers, Recipes, photography course, apples, puff pastry, tart, crumble, Food photographer, Humour, Excellence, Sugar, Blackberry, 2013, Language, apple crumble, baked apples, apple tart on puff pastry, Granny Smith apples, Demerara, Molasses
Tagged sweet pastry, clear thinking, food, delicious confection, Photography course, France, cooking, digital photography, writing, Humour, baking, Food photographer, cookery books, Je mange bien tous les jours, Recipes, William Tell, Social Services, apple ducking, arrow ducking, American Constitution, General Custer, Little Big Horn, Swiss humour, Oxymoron, Charlton Heston, Moses, vanilla, sugar, demerara, desserts, fruit
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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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Je mange bien tous les jours ……a further episode in which the duck gets it.
Being born a duck is amongst the shortest straws to be drawn in the creation stakes. There you are, a handsome beast, or babe, with a cool beak, great coloured feathers, top swimmer, ace diver and aerobatic ace: but, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, aubergine, Broth, Celeriac, Chicken, Confit de canard, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Duck, Eggs, Fish, fish cookery, Fish stock, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Kitchens, Laurence Mery-Clark, Meat, Mediterranean food, oeufs a la neige, ouefs a la neige, pasta, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, poached eggs, Poultry, Recipes, Salmon, Vegetables
Tagged cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Donald Duck, Duck jokes, Duck soup, Ducks, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, mastering the art of french cooking, meringues, photographic media, Recipes, red wine, Thai fish soup, wild duck, 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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Bottom draw, bottom line…
There’s an unfortunate link between “anally retentive” and “bottom draw”. Both suggest neatness, order and a dislike of “shit” all over the place. A place for everything and everything in its place. Nigel Slater, #realnigelslater, tweeted yesterday that a draw … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Advertising, Art photography, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Health, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, lifestyle, Meat, Nigel Slater, photography course, Photography holiday, Shopping, Supermarkets, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Advertising, anally retentive, clear thinking, cookery books, cookery writers, cooking, digital photography, disorder, Enigma, enigma machine, farmers markets, food, fresh food, Gideon bible, Healthy eating, Humour, kitchen gadgets, kitchen utensils, kitchens, Lies, magazine editors, nigel slater, order, packaged food, processed food, Real food, Rich and poor, simple logic, social networking, Specious argument, Sunday Times, writing, yoghourt culture
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