Category Archives: creme fraiche

Je mange bien tous les jours…..another week of good food.

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

Les oeufs meurette are an intense combination of eggs, lardons, mushrooms, shallots, garlic and red wine that has the power to revive me when I’m not at my best. It has nothing to do with the wonderful recipes from Laurence … Continue reading →

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Blackberries fool angels……

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

I’ve been meaning not to get a Blackberry and I haven’t. What I have got are bowls and bags of brambles freshly collected from as far afield as 200 metres from my front door. I’m neither a hunter nor much … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Art photography, Blackberries, Blackberry, Blackberry fool, Blackberrying, brambles, Cooking, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fools rush in, France, French countryside, Fruit, Icing sugar, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Still life, Sugar, summer, Vendee, Writing | 42 Comments

Le Rouge et Le Noir… or the long and the short of it.

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

Gypsy has at last spared me a precious nanosecond in which to accomplish her portrait. She may well have fundamentalist leanings as her head is covered most of the time as it is buried in the ground digging for freedom … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Caviar, Chicken, Cooking, creme fraiche, Digital photography, Doggerel, Dogs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, Lumpfish, Man's best friend, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Poodles, Still life, strawberries, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Writing | 32 Comments

Making friends with an old enemy…….

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Beetroot, in recent years, has at last become persona grata in my kitchen. As a baby boomer, I still have a clear image in my mind of what passed for a fresh summer salad in the days of my youth. … Continue reading →

Posted in beetroot, capers, Cooking, creme fraiche, Digital photography, Eggs, Elizabeth David, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hard boiled eggs, Markets, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Walnut oil | Tagged , | 48 Comments

Not so much Eton Mess ….more of a raspberry.

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

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 →

Posted in Cooking, Cream, creme fraiche, Digital photography, Eton Mess, fireplace, Food and Photography, Food photographer, meringues, photography course, Photography holiday, raspberries, strawberries, Writing | Tagged , , , , | 23 Comments

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

I feel a deep empathy with les demoiselles Tatin as indeed I do with the Light Brigade. Were we to speak of reincarnation, after due consideration, seasoned with a lifetime’s experience of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, I … Continue reading →

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A rugged ascent of Mont Blanc or any stiff peak…

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

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 | 30 Comments

Here’s a good picture of the Ceps that I haven’t got…

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

I’ve been so busy taking pictures and cooking that I haven’t really thought of posting. There’s a recipe, once again from the pen of Nigel Slater, that I hoped to test this evening. The recipe involved large mushrooms which seemed … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, baking, Ceps, Chocolate, Cornish pasty, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, fireplace, Food and Photography, mushrooms, Nigel Slater, photography course, Photography holiday, Wine, Writing | 15 Comments

Would Joan of Arc have chosen the quiche or the stake?

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

The word “quiche” is a member of that exclusive band of locutions, such as “gorgeous” and “toilet”, that I do my utmost never to employ. Defined as “a rich unsweetened custard pie…”, the quiche has little to live up to, … Continue reading →

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Blackberries,cream and sticky home made meringues….

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

…. are evocative of the clink of bone china, the murmur of quiet conversation and the smell of fresh mown grass on a hot Sunday afternoon, in late summer, in the home counties or in any good period costume drama. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, blackberries, Blackberries, Cooking, creme fraiche, desserts, food, Food and Photography, meringues, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Vendee, Writing | 9 Comments