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A Tale of Two Pies…
It was the very best of pies: it was the very worst of pies.Veal and ham pie, best described as a long raised meat pie with a row of hard boiled eggs running through the middle, is part and parcel of … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Duck, Eggs, Excellence, Foie Gras, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hard boiled eggs, Humour, Meat, Photography, photography course, Pie, Quail eggs, Truffles, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Boarding School, clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, egg white, food, Food photographer, France, Geneva Convention, hard boiled eggs, Humour, Lyon, meat pie, palate, Photography, Photography course, Picnics, red wine, retching, veal ham and egg pie, writing
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drawing on resources…the circumference of pie…
Cooking has an architecture of its own. There is the extravagant rococo of chocolate confections, the classical pillars supporting towering wedding cakes, the painstaking science of molecular cuisine, the soft curving shells of magically set egg white and, in my … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Art photography, Baking, Cooking, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Humour, pastry, Photography, photography course, Pie, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, Photography, Photography course, writing
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Getting a bit crusty with Ottolenghi…..
As a rule, it is unusual for me to find either TV chefs or lumps of cooked egg white enjoyable. There’s a relentlessness about television presenters, that may well be part of their training, which serves to quickly remove any … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, anchovies, Art photography, Baking, Boiled eggs, Cheddar, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, creme fraiche, Eggs, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Herbs and Spices, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Pie, Recipes, Vegetables, warm vegetable pies, Writing, Yotam Ottolenghi
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography course, recipe, short pastry, simple logic, spices, television presenters, TV chefs, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe, writing, Yotam Ottolenghi
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egg tempera..ment
Like a sun tanned Humpty Dumpty, I am cracked and broken. As with H.D, I am basically a good egg but fragile. The last few days have provided me with a cogent and flawless argument against the extension of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, Farming, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, hypocrisy, Meat, Memory, Photography, photography course, Pie, tart, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, didactic, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food writers, France, head to tail eating, Humour, Humpty Dumpty, Offal, Photography, Photography course, restaurants, Spleen, venting of the spleen, writing, zealot
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It’d take more than an apple to tempt Adam…
Given the choice of watching paint dry or onions browning, I’d opt to sit on a terrace overlooking clear blue sea with a chilled glass of something delicious . I take this choice whenever I’m engaged in important, but time … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, buffalo mozzarella, Cheese, Cookery Writers, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Humour, Kitchens, Mary Cadogan, mash, Maxine Clark, Memory, Nuts, onions, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pie, Pine Nuts, Recipes, Sex, strawberries, tart, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Adam and Eve, baking, beast with two backs, Clear blue sea, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, home economist, Humour, Laocoon, Mary Cadogan, Maxine Clark, Photography, Recipes, Sex manual, Southwark Bridge Road, Studios, synapses, Toreadors, woody Allen, writing
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The Vinpire sees red….
Vinpire: a nocturnal creature that lives for the taste of fermented grape juice, as long as it’s red, and often finishes the evening trying to hang upside down from a beam or just falling down without making the effort of … Continue reading
Posted in Art photography, beef, Cooking, Cotes de Rhone, Digital photography, Drinks, family, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Meat, mushromm and le pie, pastry, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pie, roast potatoes, Steak, Still life, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged duck breast, food, roasted potatoes, short crust pastry
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