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Category Archives: Sugar
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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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’ll be yours in buttons and bows…..
I had a favourite aunt who was firm in the belief that men put on dresses when they wanted to appear really important, and it appears that the clergy are keen followers of my aunt’s views. The Ku Klux Klan … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Art photography, baking, cake, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, feather, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, hypocrisy, Icing sugar, Illusion, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Religion, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, buttons and bows, cake, clear thinking, Clergy, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, drabness, food, food photographers, hoops of fire, Humour, Icing sugar, incontrovertible proof, Ku Klux Klan, movers and shakers, photographic media, Pontifical, Religion, Self importance, simple logic, State Circus, writing
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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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Too many cooks…..
If there is one thing that I cannot abide. If only there was but one thing, rather than the extensive and ever growing catalogue of things that I cannot abide: but that is not the case. The furnace of my … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, baking, Baking, Cooking, Cream, Dante's Inferno, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Humour, Kitchens, Memory, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Savage Breast, Sugar, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged alchemy, baking, brulee, Burning the cakes, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, food photographers, food processor, High dudgeon, Humour, Intolerance, King Alfred, mastering the art of french cooking, pastry, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, smoke fire, sweet pastry, Tarte au citron, Tolerance, Too many cooks, torture chamber, writing
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Gold,Frankincense and what the f…k is that….
Glacé cherries and Christmas decorations have something in common apart from looking cheap and cheerful. Their communion is that they both offer much more than they can ever deliver in that they depend on a thin veneer of cosmetic attraction … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Almonds, Angelica, Bakewell Tart, Bakewell Tart, Baking, Childhood memories, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Frankincense, Glace Cherries, Gold, Humour, Icing sugar, Mary Cadogan, Memory, Myrrh, Nuts, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Religion, Sugar, Three Wise Men, Writing
Tagged Christmas, Three Wise Men
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The unbearable lightness of sponge….
The winsome Nigella, if winsome is the word, has never been high on my list of favourite cookery writers. Perfectly formed and polished to a high shine she glides like an iceberg, only the top third of her ever visible, … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, baking, Baking, cake, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Egg Yolk Sponge Cake, Eggs, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Icing sugar, Nigella Lawson, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, raspberries, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing, yolks
Tagged baking, cake, Charybdis, egg yolks, Nigella, Scylla, sponge
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