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Category Archives: Meat
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 2013, aubergine, Broth, Celeriac, Chicken, Confit de canard, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Duck, Eggs, Fish, fish cookery, Fish stock, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Kitchens, Laurence Mery-Clark, Meat, Mediterranean food, oeufs a la neige, ouefs a la neige, pasta, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, poached eggs, Poultry, Recipes, Salmon, Vegetables
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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Bottom draw, bottom line…
There’s an unfortunate link between “anally retentive” and “bottom draw”. Both suggest neatness, order and a dislike of “shit” all over the place. A place for everything and everything in its place. Nigel Slater, #realnigelslater, tweeted yesterday that a draw … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Advertising, Art photography, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Health, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, lifestyle, Meat, Nigel Slater, photography course, Photography holiday, Shopping, Supermarkets, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Advertising, anally retentive, clear thinking, cookery books, cookery writers, cooking, digital photography, disorder, Enigma, enigma machine, farmers markets, food, fresh food, Gideon bible, Healthy eating, Humour, kitchen gadgets, kitchen utensils, kitchens, Lies, magazine editors, nigel slater, order, packaged food, processed food, Real food, Rich and poor, simple logic, social networking, Specious argument, Sunday Times, writing, yoghourt culture
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Something for the weekend, Sir?
A childhood of single sex boarding schools, followed by a career in any sex you like photography, has cleanly excised any sexual prejudice that in a less testing environment might have flourished. Doing unto others as you would have them … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Bad Habits, Cheese, Childhood, Childhood memories, Digital photography, Drinks, Fino, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Horse meat, Humour, hypocrisy, lifestyle, Meat, Memory, Mimolette, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pornography, Sex, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Boarding School, Bodily fluids, clear thinking, digital photography, Fino sherry, food photographers, France, Hamburgers, horsemeat, Humour, Internet, Lasagne, Mimolette cheese, Photography, Photography course, Prejudice, Sensitivity, sexual prejudice, society, writing, yoghourt culture
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Chicken bricks and knighthood…
Both chicken bricks and knighthoods were on my mind as cleaned out the fire this morning. The former have all but disappeared from our lives and the latter are as common as ASBO’s in Peckham and, seemingly, as easily earned. Had … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Chicken, Cooking, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Charity, Chicken brick, chicken lunch, cooking, food, humble chicken, King Arthur, Knights, Round Table, succulent breasts
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Should Joy be released?
Sobriety is low on my list of seasonal wishes and yet, as I grow older, I find myself slowly growing into a more sober mood during this week of festivities than at any other time of the year. There is … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Christmas, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Excess, Expectation, Falling Down, family, Foie Gras, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, friendship, Humour, Indolence, Ingrate, lifestyle, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Sobriety, Writing
Tagged Christmas, clear thinking, Excess, food, food photographers, France, Photography, simple logic, Sobriety, writing, yoghourt culture
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Shellshock
Loving to be by the seaside is all very well as long as one is not a crustacean. Being beside the sea is as much fun for them as being under the sea would be for us. How is it … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, aperitif, Art photography, Crayfish, Drinks, Excellence, Expectation, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, hypocrisy, Indolence, Kir, langoustines, lifestyle, Lillet, Meat, Memory, Muscadet, mussels, Mussels, oysters, Pastis, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, prawns, Sancerre, sea urchins, seafood, Still life, Sunday, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
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The Vinpire sees red….
Vinpire: a nocturnal creature that lives for the taste of fermented grape juice, as long as it’s red, and often finishes the evening trying to hang upside down from a beam or just falling down without making the effort of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Art photography, beef, Cooking, Cotes de Rhone, Digital photography, Drinks, family, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Meat, mushromm and le pie, pastry, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pie, roast potatoes, Steak, Still life, Uncategorized, Vampire, Wine, Writing
Tagged duck breast, food, roasted potatoes, short crust pastry
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Lovely buns…
It’s worrying when cows start to appear attractive. I have to stop poking my camera over hedges and luring these tasty bun fillers into the belief that they may have a future in the glossy world of media. La Vache … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Art photography, Bun, Burger, Cheese, Cooking, Emotion, Excess, Expectation, fashion, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, French countryside, Hamburger, Hannibal Lecter, La Vache qui Rit, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
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