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chicken marmalade…..
I can never understand how jam, a confit of boiled fruit and sugar, can be known by the catchall of jelly and yet, in the USA, it apparently is. It’s the lack of care in defining the difference between a thick syrup, laden … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Apricot jam, Breakfast, Chicken, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Grape jelly, Humour, Jam, Language, Photography, Poultry, Roast Chicken, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, etymology, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, jelly, palate, Photography, simple logic, social networking, writing
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A puree of Gorgons’ heads…
“Cheap” is a much maligned word. Cheap skate, cheap shot, dirt cheap and on the cheap are terms that denigrate, that define something or someone as less than it or they should be. In our wealth driven society a divide has appeared. … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, apples, Apricot jam, Baking, bananas, Caroline Conran, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, friendship, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, leeks, Leeks in red wine, lifestyle, Mary Cadogan, Pear Sponge tart, Pears, Photography, photography course, tart, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, Cheap, Cheap skate, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Leeks, Medusa, Perseus, Photography, Photography course, Poverty, Recipes, red wine, simple logic, The Gorgons, Vegetable garden, Vegetables, Wealth gap, writing
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les jolies fesses de l’été….
When coming out to play the sun takes care to put on its hat but Mother Nature is less coy. The sensual fruits of summer are short lived so their pleasures should be wolfishly enjoyed before their bloom is replaced by putrefaction. Apricot is delicious … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Apricot jam, apricots, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Photography, photography course, Still life, summer, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Apricot, apricot jam, Apricots, clear thinking, cooking, creme fraiche, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, fruit, joiies fesses, Mother Nature, natural beauty, Photography, Photography course, Summer, writing
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Last summer whine..
The silence after the hubbub of Sunday lunch is like the white noise that fills the brain as a general anaesthetic takes effect. There’s a mixture of narcotic pleasure in the cushioned lushness of the collapse from consciousness, combined with … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, apricots, Autumn, Baking, Cheese, Chicken, Cooking, Digital photography, Emotion, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Fruit, Kitchens, Olive oil, Parmesan, Photography, Poultry, sea salt, Sunday, Sunday lunch, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged anaesthetic, Annie Bell, Comte Entre Deux, Family, friends, parmesan, poaching liquid, Sunday lunch, The Beadle
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Sponge cakes keep sticking to my bottom…
“I’ve tried everything” is a phrase often mouthed by those frustrated in adversity. What is startlingly clear to the listener is that, indeed, everything has not been tried. Among the things that have not been tried is the right thing. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, apricots, Baking, cake, Cookery Writers, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, harmony, Humour, Jam, Nigella Lawson, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Sugar, Writing
Tagged Nigella Lawson, sponge cake, sticking to the bottom, the Kitchen Goddess, thick cream
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Every picture does not tell this story..
There are occasions when only words will tell the story, not necessarily momentous occasions, although with the passing years I treat the moment of waking each day as increasingly momentous, but simple daily events that move me. Eating a very … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, apricots, burrata, cake, Cheese, Cream, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Italian food, lifestyle, Mediterranean food, Mint, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, sea salt, summer, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, Burrata, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Je mange bien tous les jours, momentous occasions, natural beauty, nature, palate, peace and tranquillity, Photography, Photography course, summer eating, Vendee, writing
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In your face food…
Whenever I see fruit tarts or more particularly, pastry based confections piled high with cream and stickiness, there is, lurking at the back of my mind, a vision of that very “custard pie” on the front of someone else’s mind; … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, Apricot tart, apricots, baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Humour, Nigel Slater, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, Recipes, Sugar, summer, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged cake in the face, custard pie, In your face, nigel slater, Real Fast Puddings
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Hot chocolate virgin…
This country drips chocolate from every pore. In provincial France, good chocolatiers are nearly as ubiquitous as shoe shops, which only sell grotesque shoes, opticians and dodgy hair dressers upon which trio the French economy appears to depend. The illusion … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, Art photography, baking, Baking, Brownies, Digital photography, Dogs, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hot choclate, Humour, Poodles, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, Breakfast, Brownies, Chic, chocolat chaud, Chocolate, chocolate brownies, Cocoa, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Hot Chocolate, Humour, La Rochelle, Les Francaises, Poodles, writing
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Drive out the blues with brioche and apricot jam…
There is a mordant sadness, that is nearly tangible, about such a miserable February morning as this one . Normal antidotes, such as lighting the fire, and listening to Radio 4 with a steaming bowl of coffee cupped between slowly warming hands, seem … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, Brioche, Coffee, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, harmony, Humour, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Sunday, Sunday breakfast, Toast, Weather, Writing
Tagged Antidote, antidotes, apricot jam, baking, brioche, clear thinking, delicious confection, February, food, food photographers, Forlorn Hope, Humour, palate, Photography, Photography course, radio 4, smile on my face, toasted brioche, writing
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Food, Photography & France 