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Category Archives: apricots
The elusive scent of past summers….
There’s a smell to the summer holidays of my youth that I can’t describe or define but which still haunts me. This friendly phantom will appear unannounced as a waft of a hardly remembered past that is filled with detail … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Apricot tart, Apricot tart, apricots, Art photography, baking, Childhood, Childhood memories, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Ghost, Phantom, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Summer holidays, tart, Writing
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My podium of excellence from this morning….
These three things are amongst the amazing things that I have seen today. These three things are superlative in conception and performance and will never be bettered. Their existence puts the legendary arrogance of a conceited human into clear proportion.
Fresh poodles and apricots…
A dish so sought after in the Far East that it is customary to leave one’s daughters on the streets and lock up the poodles. The poodle catcher is on the qui vive and the game’s afoot. The Vendée, however, … Continue reading
Apricot jam on toasted brioche brings warmth to chilled bones…
The last few days have been filled with the hiss and hideous hum of power tools which the rays of the winter sun confirm by clearly delineating the sawdust filled atmosphere of the house. I would be delighted if I … Continue reading
Posted in Apricot jam, apricots, Brioche, Food and Photography, Food photographer, photography course, Photography holiday, Toast, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, brioche, vanilla perfume
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Friday night, and Saturday morning
There’s nothing funny here, Roger, I thought. Waking up on Saturday morning in a strange bed to the sound of unfamiliar breathing made me realise that I was the victim of my own unbelievable stupidity. Thinking back, I should have … Continue reading
Je suis absolument “Hank Marvin” et je pourrait tuer pour un “Ruby Murray”
These are the words Parisian restaurateurs would be hearing if the rugby world cup was taking place in France. Ethnic food is the lifeblood of English cuisine. Take away, an apposite word indeed, the Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Mexican, Italian, Spanish, Lebanese et al, … Continue reading
Posted in Almonds, apricots, broad beans, Chick peas, Chicken, Cooking, Coriander, cous cous, couscous, family, Flat parsley, Food and Photography, France, friendship, green beans, harmony, Honey, lifestyle, Mediterranean food, Mme.Guinaudeau, MSG, new potatoes, olives, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, preserved lemons, Rabbit, ras al hanout, sea salt, tagine
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Boiled, skinned and cut in half….. and that’s just the apricots
Life is certainly long enough to stuff a mushroom, if there was any point in it, which there isn’t. However, unless you are patissier or one of those people who are annoyingly adept at doing very difficult things easily thus … Continue reading
Posted in apricots, baking, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, dough, food, Food and Photography, France, Nigel Slater, pastry, Photography, Photography holiday, summer, Writing
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My toast fell butter side up……
The story recounts how an unlucky man, on dropping his freshly buttered toast onto the carpet, notices that it has unusually fallen butter side up. Feeling that this is a sign of his changing fortunes he consults with a rabbi, … Continue reading
