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Category Archives: Cream
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 Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Writing, Cooking, food, summer, desserts, peaches, Fruit, Recipes, photography course, Honey, Cream, Food photographer, Sugar, 2013, Demerara, grilled peaches
Tagged mastering the art of french cooking, food, delicious confection, Photography course, France, cooking, digital photography, writing, Humour, Food photographer, Recipes, recipe, Peaches and cream, skin like a peach, avoir la peche, peachy, superlatives, spain, irony, demerara sugar, ripeness, uppercut
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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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Fromage fouette and baies roses… a taste of Spring
February is at last grinding to its weary end. Much as I hate the thought of wishing even a single hour of my life away, I do find February enervating. This does not just relate to this February, but to every … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Baies Roses, Cheese, Cream, Digital photography, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Fromage fouette, Herbs and Spices, La Foret de Mervent, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Baies Roses, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Food Photographer of the Year, food photographers, France, Fromage, Long evenings, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, Pink Lady, Spring, Spring forward, 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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In the pudding club?
There’s a limit to how excited a body can be. I know that such a conception would be anathema to any self respecting PR person but I’m only concerned with humans. Anticipation and imagination will always be keener than the … Continue reading
Give peas a chance..
When all is said and done, which moment has certainly never occurred in this household or in my memory of saying and doing things. I dread reaching the point where “all is said”, and with the rate of attrition of … Continue reading
Forbidden fruit followed by bangers and mash…
It is hard to assess the wisdom of the proverb which counsels never looking a gift horse in the mouth as many a gift horse would benefit from a good buccal inspection. The concept is that we should be grateful … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Cream, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, grapes, Mashed potatoes, Methanol, Noa grape, Othello grape, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Vendee, Wine, Writing
Tagged gift horse in the mouth, potato ricer, store cupboard
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Not so much Eton Mess ….more of a raspberry.
The white cup, containing six egg whites, had been trying to attract my attention for a couple of days. Sweet pastry and lemon fillings tend to create a supply of nascent soufflés and meringues by dint of the phrase “take … Continue reading
A rugged ascent of Mont Blanc or any stiff peak…
France and cream do not go together like a horse and carriage. The country whose cuisine is famed for its excesses of butter and cream does not have much of the latter, or at least “not as we know it, … Continue reading
Posted in Cream, creme fraiche, desserts, Food and Photography, France, meringues, Mont Blanc, photography course, Writing
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