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Category Archives: creme fraiche
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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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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une belle horizontale….
Of the phrases that exemplify the quality of French as a diplomatic language few can compare with “belle horizontale” as a well turned euphemism for an “expensive tart” and there is no doubt that the eponymous Tarte au Citron Cartet, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, 2017, Baking, Cooking, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, France, Humour, Lemon tart, lemons, Paris, Patricia Wells, Photography, photography course, Recipes, tart, tarte au citron cartet, tarte au citron cartet, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, belle horizontale, Bistro Cartet, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, palate, Paris, patricia wells, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, restaurants, simple logic, social networking, sweet pastry, Tarte au citron, 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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not getting it……
There’s something clearly very sexy going on here. Fruit can’t help being sexy because that’s what they are. They’re the fruit of some tree’s loins and they look like sex. The one moment that I remember from Ken Russell’s film, “Women … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, apricots, Baking, Cooking, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Memory, nectarines, Photography, Sex, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, fig eating, food, Food photographer, France, Fresh figs, Humour, Ken Russell, outdoors, Photography, social networking, Summer, sweet pastry, Women in Love, writing
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on doing one’s duty …
Whenever I hear of duty and the honour bestowed on those who, when called to it, perform it without question, I am whisked back to a much earlier time when, early each morning, I was to be found perched on a … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Caroline Conran, Childhood memories, Cookery Writers, Cooking, creme fraiche, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, meringues, omelette, Photography, raspberries, Uncategorized, Writing, yolks
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Molesworth, Photography, Prep school, Ronald Searle, social networking, Thring, writing
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You can take a prune to Armagnac, and you can make it drink….
“You can take a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think”. The lusciously sticky prunes of Agen have only to touch your lips to end any token resistance to their sluttishness. It’s not difficult to detect whorish behaviour … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Armagnac, Baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, creme fraiche, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Drinks, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, Millas aux Pruneaux, Millas aux Pruneaux, Patricia Wells, Photography, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Armagnac, baking, Bistro Cooking, bistro food, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, digital photography, Dorothy Parker, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, patricia wells, Photography, Photography course, pruneaux d'Agen, recipe, 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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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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Food, Photography & France 