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Category Archives: France
…putting a name to a beak.
In the still of this sunfilled early morning, there’s me and legion of small birds who are all making their particular peaceful noises, that I recognise but can’t put a beak to. Bees, so fat that they have no business … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Baking, Breakfast, capers, Cooking, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, onions, oranges, pastry, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Provence, Recipes, summer, tart, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Weather, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged baking, bees, birdsong, Breakfast, clear thinking, cooking, crisp pastry, delicious confection, Eureka moment, food, Food photographer, France, Groundhog Day, Humour, Mediterranean food, morning coffee, natural beauty, olive oil, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, red wine, single bee, Summer morning, tomato sauce, writing
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….through the cooking glass …
As with Alice, the reverse can be, and often is, the truth. The real joy lies in the contents of the cooking glass passing through the cook. Sadly there is no clear reference as to how much joy can be … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, baking, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Drinks, Eggs, Elizabeth David, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, goat cheese, Hard boiled eggs, Humour, Olive oil, peaches, Peachy, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, radishes, Recipes, sea salt, summer, tart, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, eating well, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, hard boiled eggs, hors d'oeuvre, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, literature, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography course, picnic, puff pastry, Recipes, sea salt, Summer Cooking, summer produce, sweet pastry, Through the Looking Glass, Vendee, Vendee coast, writing
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Waking with a bee in your ear……
Solitary bees are a new discovery for me. Up to a recent point I thought that all bees lived in tower block hives, milling around chaotically but purposefully, so like us humans, buzzing off to work in a rush hour … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, food, summer, Wine, French countryside, Cuisine bourgeoise, Recipes, photography course, Cheese, Baking, tart, new potatoes, Eggs, Cream, Food photographer, Art photography, 2013, Parmesan, asparagus, White Burgundy
Tagged clear thinking, natural beauty, food, outdoors, Photography course, France, Photography, cooking, digital photography, writing, Humour, baking, Food photographer, Recipes, Asparagus, new potatoes, Noirmoutier potatoes, sleep, waking, dreamlike, bees, bee hives, rush hour, mobylette, asparagus tart, puff pastry, buttery new potatoes, birds and the bees, solitary bees, white burgundy
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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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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 Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, food, summer, peaches, Wine, Fruit, photography course, lifestyle, fireplace, Food photographer, Humour, Art photography, Childhood memories, Caviar, Lumpfish, Expectation, Weather, Drinks, Christmas, 2013, wine
Tagged food photographers, food, outdoors, Photography course, France, digital photography, Humour, Food photographer, Je mange bien tous les jours, Summer, Summer food, Salad, Picnics, Snow leopard, Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, These foolish things, sandwiches, sand filled sandwiches, warm wine, plastic cups, frisson of excitement, last tryst
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Kiss and Make up……
Being nearly June, I’m surprised to still be lighting the fire at the end of each day. As the nights are still cold I find that we are continuing the winter ritual of watching television, in the warm glow of … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Digital photography, Excess, fashion, France, French countryside, harmony, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Vendee, Weather, Writing
Tagged $200, 000, Arrogance, clear thinking, digital photography, Excess, farming, France, french countryside, landscapes, Las Vegas, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, peaceful countryside, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, spoilt, spreading shit, Waste, 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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Having a breakdown….
My specialist subject is not “The Workings of the Internal Combustion Engine”. This became apparent when, after pushing all the knobs and turning all the keys marked “Start”, nothing happened save the creation of a telling noise that had heads … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Bad Habits, Digital photography, Emotion, Expectation, Falling Down, France, Humour, Illusion, Language, lifestyle, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged bonnet, Breakdown, breakdown truck, bureaucracy, cars, clear thinking, derision, digital photography, do as you would be done by, France, hood, Humour, Instruction manuals, Insurance company, internal combustion engine, J.K.Rowling, Kafkaesque, La Belle France, Le Hexagon, little bo peep, locomotion, manuals, Mastermind, Mental breakdown, mental breakdowns, Owners' manuals, patience, Photography course, simple logic, Specialist subject, Tolkien, travel, waiting, writing, Zen and the art of Motorbike repair
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