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Category Archives: Fruit
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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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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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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Always look on the bright side of rice…..
Billions of Christians across the world will be making the best of a Good Friday that was far from good for the main protagonist who was executed in the most grisly fashion for the good of mankind. Looking at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Gennaro Contaldo, Humour, Italian food, lemons, Mediterranean food, Memory, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Religion, Ricotta, Risotto with lemon and ricotta, Thyme, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged anathema, Easter, Gennaro Contaldo, Good Friday, Happy Easter, Prejudice, recipe, Religion, Risotto, Subconscious
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The birth of Rigoletto…
In just a few days 8.30 will be the new 7.30. The winter is dead, long live….that doesn’t work. Hurrah for the theoretical arrival of summer even if your power lines are under 10ft of snow or the rain is … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Photography, Landscapes, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, Wine, French countryside, perfect day, photography course, grapes, Food photographer, Vineyard, Vines, Art photography, Drinks, 2013, Celebration, wine, Rigoletto
Tagged clear thinking, natural beauty, misty morning, outdoors, red wine, Photography course, France, loire wine, digital photography, literature, writing, Humour, Food photographer, Rigoletto, vineyard, cuvee, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romantic poets, Summer time, Wordsworth, host of golden dafffodils, Vendeen vignoble, opium addict, golden daffodils, climate, ancient mariner
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Early clout casting….
The first sight of the sun today brought out the mad dog in this Englishman. My mission was firewood cutting and I had set about the job in my standard kit of a thick Aran knit sailing sweater under an … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Breakfast, Coffee, Dreams, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Garden, Illusion, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Shine, Virtual, Weather, Writing
Tagged Aran sweater, Breakfast, Casting a clout before May is out, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Heating bill, Humour, Illusion, Mad dogs and Englishmen, Mirage, misty morning, nature, outdoors, Peaches, Photography course, sawdust, Spring, Summer, warm sunlight, Wood cutting, writing
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