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Category Archives: desserts
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 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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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 sweet pastry, modest beauty, mastering the art of french cooking, clear thinking, nature, food, travel, delicious confection, France, restaurants, landscapes, loire wine, cooking, digital photography, writing, Humour, Food photographer, Je mange bien tous les jours, Cuisine bourgeoise, Pays de Loire, Wine, Saumur Champigny, Muscadet, Ladies who lunch, Vine cuttings, Grillades, boudin, La bonne table, Sarments, Seven Dwarves, Restored, french countryside
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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 Food and Photography, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Cooking, food, desserts, pasta, Mediterranean food, aubergine, fish cookery, Vegetables, Cookery Writers, Herbs and Spices, Fish, Meat, Recipes, photography course, Flat parsley, Eggs, Food photographer, Salmon, Confit de canard, Broth, Fish stock, Kitchens, 2013, Laurence Mery-Clark, ouefs a la neige, oeufs a la neige, poached eggs, Poultry, Duck, Chicken, Celeriac
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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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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Putting my fingers in my ears and going “la,la,la…..”
My mind is warming up at the same slow rate as the bathroom, less concerned with writing than with steeling itself for the discomfort from frozen hands that will surely come with the imminent and essential cutting of fire wood. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Bad Habits, desserts, Digital photography, Emotion, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Health, Illusion, lifestyle, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, raspberries, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, Cold, Cold hands, delicious confection, Expectation, food, Food photographer, food photographers, Honey, Humour, nature, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, Photography holiday, Procrastination, Raspberries, Tolerance, writing
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Keeping my pair warm in a cold spell…
I found myself in the position of Algernon Moncrieff’s manservant, Lane, this morning. There were no Passe Crassane pears to be had in the shops. “No Passe Crassane at all, Lane? “. “None, Sir. Not even for ready money”. I … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Elizabeth David, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Membrillo, Pears, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Quince, Writing
Tagged baking, cake, cooking, Dessert, food, food photographers, France, Humour, La Bourdaine, mastering the art of french cooking, Passe Crassane, Pears, photographic media, Photography, quince, restaurants, simple logic, sweet pastry, writing
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