Category Archives: Nigel Slater

darkly sweetly madly…..

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

” …we’re in the soup” ” in a bit of a stew” “there are too many cooks” “the salt has lost its savour” “it only takes one rotten apple” “our goose is well and truly cooked”. Being that the cooking … Continue reading →

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for the love of basil…….

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

I have a similar aversion to day time television as have the majority of its advocates towards ingredients such as anchovies, oysters and snails. This all encompassing judgement may at first appear inequitable and, in concert with the zeitgeist, it … Continue reading →

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a question of taste….

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Food,Photography & France

  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 →

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French Farce…

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Stuffed peppers have steadfastly kept their place in my pantheon of “least favourite dishes” As I grow older I have found  so many “least favourite dishes” that I am searching for a new duo of comparative and superlative to replace “lesser” and “least”; I … Continue reading →

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keep it clean, Roger….please..

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Whilst driving through the countryside this morning I was momentarily overcome by the unalloyed happiness that is afforded me by just being here. It’s the way that each day is spent not looking forward but just looking. An edible metaphor … Continue reading →

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y ail, y ail, aulx…..

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

It has been passed down in rhyme and song that Old Macdonald had a farm, y ail, y ail, aulx and on that farm he may well have had pigs, chickens and cows but there is no mention of garlic which … Continue reading →

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A fosse, a fosse, my kingdom for a well behaved fosse…

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

With such a charming soubriquet, the War of the Roses must have smelled sweeter than did our kitchen this morning. Rustic plumbing may have its charms but, so complete is their concealment, I have not yet had the chance to be … Continue reading →

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happily giving into temptation…

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Recently I’ve been consuming an inordinate amount of sugar. On the plus side, this surfeit of sweetness, for the most part, is virtual. Well written cookery books, and I purposely make this distinction, should display a health warning. A clear definition of … Continue reading →

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take a leek….

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

The quality of leeks may not be strained but the quantity of them in my kitchen most certainly is. Such a surfeit of leeks would suggest that I am in the throes of creating a celebratory dish for the imminent release of Julian … Continue reading →

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Getting properly stuffed…

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Food,Photography & France

The association of stuffing and peppers has the ring of anathema. Experience, together with hearsay, tells us that nothing good can come of it. Just the mere consideration of such a possibility awakens the culinary Torquemada that lurks in the … Continue reading →

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