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French rarebit…
It is said that a bad workman will blame his tools for bad workmanship. Not being a workman in any sense of the word, yet today finding myself at hard labour, I was more catholic in my apportioning of blame and included … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Cheese, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Garden, Humour, Olive oil, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Toast, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged basal ganglia, Cantal, cheese toastie, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, hard labour, Humour, manual labour, Navajo, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, recipe, Thomas Edison, Welsh Rarebit, woody Allen, writing
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Peanut envy…..
Occasionally I am led to rethink my personal food prejudices but the addition of “jelly”, a term that I have never fully come to terms with in this particular context, to peanut butter is not among those occasions. Such a sublime … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Grape jelly, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Prints, Toast, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, impasto, impasto layer, jelly and peanut butter, John Bratby, palate, peanut butter, Photography, Photography course, strap on, teatime, teatime treat, Venus de Milo, writing
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French rabbit….
Happily, our electric toaster no longer toasts. Even when it did toast, it didn’t. There is something unpleasant and inept about toasters. In my mind’s eye I see floppy slices of artificial bread on a hinged platform, not unlike a … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Camembert, Cheese, Cooking, Digital photography, Dreams, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Memory, Photography, photography course, Toast, Toast, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Cheese on toast, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, electric toaster, Electric toasters, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, imagination, Pain grille, Photography course, Piz Buin, Toast, Welsh Rarebit, writing
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Making sense of it all….a recipe
Hours spent carving my name, into the already scarred, wooden lid of my desk, during mathematics lessons, instilled in me the belief that there is no more sense in the answer than there is in the question. “Problems” were the problem. My problem … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Breakfast, Cooking, Digital photography, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Luck, Memory, mushrooms, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Toast, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged calculations, Carving names in desk lids, clear thinking, day dreaming, digital photography, fantasy, food, Food photographer, gambling, Humour, Mathematical problems, memories of schooldays, Photography course, School lessons, simple logic, teachers, trains, writing
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First taste of summer…
For three successive mornings we have woken to sun pouring in through the windows. But winter habits being hard to shake off, ask any monk, on my way back from buying bread, I stopped at Claude’s house to order some … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Breakfast, capers, Digital photography, Excellence, Farming, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Garden, harmony, Health, Les Saints de Glace, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Sunday, Sunday breakfast, Toast, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged Anchovies, Breakfast, Capers, clear thinking, colour of the sky, digital photography, firewood, first taste, Food photographer, France, Garlic, Mediterranean food, morning toast, natural beauty, outdoors, palate, Photography, Photography course, Spring, Summer, Summer food, Sunny morning, Toast, writing
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Food, Photography & France 