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neither having nor eating one’s cake…..
The depths of my childhood deprivation have only recently become apparent. Unlike the majority of happy baby boomer children who enjoyed Pineapple Upside Down (PUD…perfect acronym) Cake at the end of every joyous Sunday lunch of their idyllic childhoods I … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Baking, cake, Childhood memories, Cooking, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged baking, BBC Good Food, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Humour, palate, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, social networking, Summer, sweet pastry, Vendee, writing
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on having and eating cake…
A very depressing aphorism suggests that one cannot have one’s cake and eat it which seems contradictory to me as the sole chance of eating one’s cake is indeed to have it, if only for that short time until it has … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, amaretti & raspberry cake, Baking, cake, Cooking, desserts, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Kitchens, raspberries, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Amaretti biscuits, Aphorisms, baking, cake, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Henry Thoreau, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, palate, Photography course, recipe, social networking, Summer, Walden, writing
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a question of taste….
Ronald Searle’s “Molesworth” books, of which I was a devotee when at prep school, often featured, among their wildly stylised illustrations, an image of what appeared to be a solid speckled cake like wedge, known as “seed cake”, and which … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, apples, Baking, cake, Childhood, Childhood memories, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Hazelnuts, Humour, Nigel Slater, Pear & Hazelnut Cake, Pears, Photography, photography course, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, cake, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, Crumble topping, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, Nigel Molesworth, nigel slater, palate, Pear & Hazelnut Cake, Photography course, recipe, Ronald Searle, Seed Cake, social networking, sugar, writing
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seeing red…..
There are, in my life, two new era defining acronyms to add to the familiar BC and AD, to wit BS and AS, which demarcate those periods in time before and after the advent of the saviour, aka Spellcheck ( interestingly, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Baking, cake, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Memory, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Still life, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, Desiccated coconut, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography, Photography course, social networking, Spellcheck, spelling, writing
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the 3 R’s..
Resolve, recant, regret….and the greatest of these three is regret…. but only until the second mouthful if the cake is good enough. We of the human race are generally rubbish (the forgotten R) at keeping our promises to which a quick glance at divorce … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, apples, Baking, cake, Calvados, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Drinks, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, One Apple Cake, Patricia Wells, Photography, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, palate, patricia wells, Photography, recipe, social networking, The 3 R's, writing
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lunch: a user’s manual..
Let me be clear, I don’t give a flying fuck if Marie Antoinette said brioche, chelsea buns or if she said bugger all…I’m saying it now…”let them eat cake”. In particular, let them eat this cake. Amaretti biscuits have always been … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, amaretti & raspberry cake, Baking, cake, coffee, cognac, Cooking, desserts, Drinks, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Fruit, Humour, Memory, Photography, raspberries, Recipes, Uncategorized, wine, Writing
Tagged Amaretti biscuits, baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, lunch, Marie Antoinette, natural beauty, palate, Photography, restaurants, social networking, writing
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’tis the season that dare not speak its name ….
Cake and chocolate are two “C” words that have not, as yet, been proscribed. Christmas and cunt have been. Creating forbidden fruit has never succeeded in producing an aversion in those to whom the fruit are irresistible. Words of all kinds are irresistible … Continue reading
Posted in baking, cake, Childhood memories, Christmas, Cookery Writers, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Dominique's Chocolate Cake, Eileen Reece, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, harmony, Humour, hypocrisy, Memory, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Recipes, Writing
Tagged baking, cake, Chocolate, Christmas, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Eileen Reece, food, Food photographer, forbidden fruit, France, French cooking, Han van Meegeren, Humour, Photography, Photography course, recipe, writing
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The drizzle, it drizzleth every day …..
The time has come for the fire to be lit in the daylight hours rather than at dusk. I use the term “daylight” loosely as “daygrey” would be more pertinent, both in luminance and mood. This is cake weather, where cake … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, cake, Christmas, Coffee, Cookery Writers, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Lemon Drizzle Cake, Memory, Photography, photography course, Raymond Blanc, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, cake, Childhood memories, Chinese whispers, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, mastering the art of french cooking, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, writing
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Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar at suppertime…
Fall is a time when I need to pick myself up from the lazy carpet of summer on which I have been laying, ripening with age, for far too long this year. Long sunny days of rustic torpor are not conducive to … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, cake, Cookery Writers, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, Patricia Wells, Pears, Photography, photography course, Recipes, Three Pear Cake, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, cake, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, Desert Eagle, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Kraken, little grey cells, pastoral torpor, patricia wells, Photography course, Poirot, recipe, Silver Bullet, Snatch, sugar, The Provence Cookbook, Three pear cake, Vinnie Jones, writing
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Who called the cook a cunt?
Which knotty question is traditionally answered with the pithy response of: ” Who called the cunt a cook?”. The first time that I encountered that profane but apposite riddle was whilst making a television commercial for Nescafe in Athens in 1971APC (Ante Political Correctness) … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, cake, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Emotion, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Humour, Martha Stewart, nectarines, Photography, photography course, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, cake, Cake tins, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, Dame Edna Everage, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Gladioli, Gregorian chant, Humour, Martha Stewart, misty morning, Moonee Ponds, natural beauty, Obamacare, political correctness, Profanity, Steve Martin, Upside down cake, writing
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Food, Photography & France 