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Category Archives: Recipes
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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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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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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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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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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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 bitterness of sugar…..
Financiers the world over are suffering and my heart bleeds for them, poor little bankers. These sanguine emotions have awakened the atavistic cannibal in me, so I’ve started to eat them, financiers that is, at every opportunity. One might say … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Art photography, baking, Baking, Cooking, desserts, Excellence, financiers, financiers, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Atavistic, Avatar, baking, Bankers, Bitterness, bleeding heart, cake, Cakes, Cannibal, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, emotions, Financiers, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Lord Sugar, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, social networking, writing
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