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Category Archives: food
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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These latish things remind me of you…
” A bowl of peaches that are slowly ripening, A simple salad on a summer evening….” These and other equally delicious things remind me of you, Summer. I’m impatiently awaiting your arrival; my mind is filled with memories of our … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Caviar, Childhood memories, Christmas, Digital photography, Drinks, Expectation, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, lifestyle, Lumpfish, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Uncategorized, Weather, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, frisson of excitement, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, last tryst, Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, outdoors, Photography course, Picnics, plastic cups, Salad, sand filled sandwiches, sandwiches, Snow leopard, Summer, Summer food, These foolish things, warm wine
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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 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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I seem to have lost my cherry..
Winter days start in deep darkness and summer days in bright blankness, two versions of one and the same thing: the empty sheet of paper. I dream a lot which means that my mind has been buzzzzing all night. Sleep … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, cherries, Digital photography, Dreams, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Illusion, Memory, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Reality, summer, Uncategorized, Virtual, Writing
Tagged auto biography, blank sheet of paper, Ceret, Cherry festival, clear thinking, digital photography, dreams, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Memory, misty morning, natural beauty, Photography course, Summer morning, virtual reality, winter darkness, writing
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You can tell a book from its cover..
I’ve recently come to the opinion that we’re much more successful at preserving vegetables than we are at preserving youthful looks. In that half land of waking, this morning, the imagined strains of a childhood song, “With a face like … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Arrogance, Art photography, beans, capers, Digital photography, Doggerel, Dreams, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Illusion, Italian food, Obsession, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, preserved lemons, Reality, Recipes, Tuna, Writing
Tagged Facio maxillary surgery, Illusion, luxury hotels, Plastic surgery, Preserved fruit, Preserved lemons, Preserving, search for youth, tonno fagioli
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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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