Category Archives: seafood

Je mange bien tous les jours – a second bite..

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

As promised, here are another week’s recipes from Laurence Méry-Clark’s self published book “Je mange bien tous les jours”. In a world of allergies and picky eaters at one extreme and the fastidious fine diners at the other, Laurence is … Continue reading →

Posted in 2013, Broth, Calamari, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Creme Caramel, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, Fish, Gravadlax, Hamburger, Herbs and Spices, Kitchens, Laurence Mery-Clark, lifestyle, Meat, mushrooms, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Ricotta, seafood, Shopping, sole, Sunday, tomatoes, Vegetables, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 35 Comments

Soft prawn….

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

I was engaged in the dexterous removal of clothing from some beautiful prawns which action brought to my mind the name of Dan Greenberg, the author of “How to be a Jewish Mother”, but also the author of a small … Continue reading →

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Shellshock

Posted on October 28, 2012 by

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 →

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A handful of coques…..

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

The best laid plans …pointless to continue as I’ve laid as many brilliant plans as I have eggs. Brilliant planning is not in my remit. I am passing through this vale of tears flying by the seat of my pants … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Art photography, Benny Hill, clams, Cooking, coques, Crayfish, Digital photography, Excess, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, langoustines, Mediterranean food, mussels, peppers, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, seafood, summer, Summer holidays, Uncategorized, vongole, Weather, Writing | Tagged | 48 Comments

Days of little miracles

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

There’s a corollary to chasing death which is a blind determination to hang on to life.We were watching a butterfly in our garden gloriously living its short span by floating ethereally    from bloom and bloom like a fantastically rigged aerial sailing ship. … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Bad luck, butterfly, Digital photography, Excellence, Expectation, Fino, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fools rush in, Garden, Good luck, Humour, Luck, Miracle, Mussels, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, seafood, Sherry, swimming pool, Tapas, Uncategorized, Wings, Writing | 40 Comments

Algy’s gone and Al Fresco’s arrived….

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

It’s rush hour. It must be as I can just hear a motor bike in the distance over the deep silence that is the beginning of a summer’s day. This is the summer moment that I wait for throughout the … Continue reading →

Posted in Almonds, BBQ, Cheese, Cooking, Coulommiers, Digital photography, Fish, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Fruit, Herbs and Spices, lifestyle, Mediterranean food, Nuts, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pine Nuts, sardines, seafood, Writing | 37 Comments

There is something very tempting about them…..

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

Let us consider the artichoke. There is something very tempting about them which conflicts with the something about them that is very annoying. They have such a decorative value that eating them is akin to pulling the petals off a … Continue reading →

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The absurdity of loving the artichoke

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

The Camus de Bretagne is thought by many to be as unapproachable as the eponymous author, Albert Camus, whose books, as an intense young art student hungry for “culture”, I devoured as greedily as I now devour the artichokes that … Continue reading →

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Well, that just puts the cherry on the cake…..

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

The oven is dead, long live the oven. In the words of Ambrosiana -” that puts the cherry on the cake” – a strangely inappropriate phrase as making a cake is not on the cards at the moment, and also a … Continue reading →

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I say “potato” and you say “something I don’t understand”…..

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

It’s early and the world outside my window, which is very quiet and still, is softly lit by a morning sun that promises a good day. Looking at the calendar and realising that we are fast approaching the end of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Italian food, pasta, peaches, perfect day, Photography, Photography holiday, prawns, summer, Writing | 12 Comments