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Category Archives: Cream
flour power….the rise and fall…
I remember buying a box of Fecule de Pomme de Terre many years ago. The very fact that I can remember this bears witness to the vagaries of an aging mind. I can’t remember if I’ve just put the kettle … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, asparagus, Baking, Cheese, Cooking, Cream, creme fraiche, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, gratin, Humour, Memory, Parmesan, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Humour, nigel slater, palate, Photography, Photography course, recipe, social networking, Vendee, writing
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another bloody pudding….
Zombie families roam the streets of social media whilst the TV screens in our homes are awash with life size images of intestines being drawn from the bowels of a recusant Catholic*and to follow there is always the not … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, baking, Baking, Bistro, Cooking, Cream, creme fraiche, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Photography, photography course, tart, tarte tatin, tarte tatin, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Humour, palate, Photography, recipe, simple logic, social networking, sweet pastry, writing
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darkly sweetly madly…..
” …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
Posted in 2017, baking, Cookery Writers, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, Humour, Nigel Slater, Photography, photography course, Plum and raspberry lattice pie, Plums, raspberries, Recipes, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, literature, natural beauty, nigel slater, palate, Photography, Photography course, recipe, social networking, sweet pastry, writing
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juggling on radio…..
A blindfolded man is given a glass of dark beer to taste. He tastes the beer, licks his lips and nods in approval at which point the blindfold is removed causing the subject of the tasting to smile and say … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, aubergine, aubergine, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cream, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Eggs, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, goat cheese, Mediterranean food, Photography, Photography holiday, Rachel Roddy, Recipes, Richard Olney, Ricotta, ricotta gratin, tomato, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged aubergine, cookery books, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, gratin, Guinness, Humour, mastering the art of french cooking, palate, photographic media, Photography, Rachel Roddy, recipe, Richard Olney, ricotta gratin, Simple French Food, simple logic, social networking, Summer, tomato, writing
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one can never be too thin or too chocolatey….
Cooking with chocolate demands judgement and judgement demands evidence. My lips were smeared with compelling evidence as I marveled at the simplicity of this glossy tart. The first cut had no need to be the deepest as no tart before had adhered … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Baking, Chocolate, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hazelnuts, Humour, Nuts, Patricia Wells, Photography, Stephane Reynaud, tart, Thin chocolate tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, evidence, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Judgement, palate, patricia wells, recipe, social networking, sweet pastry, Wallis Simpson, writing
34 Comments
happily giving into temptation…
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
Posted in 2015, Cookery Writers, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Nigel Slater, oranges, Parfait of Lemon and Orange, Parfait of Orange and Lemon, Photographic Prints, photography course, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Clairvoyance, clear thinking, cookery books, Creme de Citron, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, lemon curd, meringues, nigel slater, Parfait of Lemon and Orange, Photography, Photography course, recipe, sugar, Sweetness, writing
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on becoming Ken Dodd….and other recipes…
On taking stock of things, I never seem to have enough. More precisely, I never seem to have enough of the things of which I would like an excess. Money, hair and teeth would come high on the list although, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, Childhood, Cooking, Cream, Cutlery, Digital photography, Eggs, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, goat cheese, Humour, Illusion, Jam, Memory, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Prints, Still life, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, dilletante, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, huntsmen, Ken Dodd, myopic, Ottolenghi, Photography, Photography course, Props, school reports, stylists, tutorial criticism, writing
43 Comments
Cream…..
The car is filled with the warm scent of freshly baked bread as I make the return journey from the boulangerie, snaking through barely moving walls of corn and sunflowers that skitter the light of this late summer morning on the surface of the empty … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, apples, Baking, Bistro, Calvados, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cream, creme fraiche, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Drinks, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Golden Apple Tart, Patricia Wells, Photography, photography course, Recipes, tart, Writing
Tagged baking, Bistro Cooking, Boulangerie, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, cream, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Late Summer, natural beauty, outdoors, patricia wells, Photography, Photography course, recipe, Summer, Sun flowers, sweet pastry, vacation, Valle d'Auge, Vendee, writing
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Size is everything…..
The priapic appearance of courgettes and cucumbers has been known to engender lewd and goatish thoughts but. if one intends to eat the vegetable, the promise of satisfaction is illusory and disappointment the climax. Size is indeed everything, and in the case of … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, Cheese, courgette, Cream, creme fraiche, Digital photography, Eggs, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, goat cheese, Humour, Photography, photography course, Recipes, Sex, tart, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, foreplay, France, goat cheese, Humour, Jack Nicholson, mandolin, menage a trois, nature, outdoors, palate, Photography, Photography course, recipe, simple logic, size is everything, Summer, Vendee, writing
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“Let them eat carrot cake”…a quicker route to the guillotine…
I have never come to terms with cake made from carrots. Such root vegetables were very popular as sweetening agents in the 18th century but even Marie Antoinette had more sense than to attempt to appease the ravenous sans culottes with … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, anchovies, Cooking, Cream, Digital photography, Fish, Fish cakes, Fish cakes, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Herbs and Spices, mashed potatoes, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Recipes, Salmon, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged carrot cake, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Fish cake, Fish cakes, food, Food photographer, Humour, Marie Antoinette, palate, Photography, Photography course, recipe, Sans culottes, The Lady of Shallot, writing
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Food, Photography & France 