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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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Jam today…
I have met a lot of bankers in my time and most of the meetings were uncomfortable….for me. The main thrust of these meetings was to convince them of the imminent arrival of funds and, with that in mind, the … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, cake, Cream, creme fraiche, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Bank managers, cake, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, Jam tomorrow, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, writing
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Pear tatin….. whilst dreaming of mangoes
As I was peeling the pears for this evenings pudding my eyes kept wandering and my mouth kept watering over the thought of the two ripe mangoes that were sitting in a bowl on the worktop. Winter directs my hand … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, baking, Cooking, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Pears, Photography, tarte tatin, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, mastering the art of french cooking, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, ripe mangoes, tatin, writing
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Tarte au citron…..cheers me up
Eggs, cream, butter, lemons…yellow is a good colour for January. As rain falls and grey afternoons stretch away, I find it easy to lose myself in colour. Lemon juice, sugar and eggs are transformed into creamy waves of subtle colours … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, Cooking, Cream, creme fraiche, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, lemons, Patricia Wells, Photography, Recipes, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, palate, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, simple logic, sweet pastry, writing
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A tart for all reasons…
You may not be able to tell a book by its cover, which is why the one in picture lays open with its contents clearly revealed. The same subterfuge may certainly be said of pies. A showy paste exterior may … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, creme fraiche, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Eggs, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, leeks, Nigel Slater, nutmeg, Oude Goudse Kaas, Parmesan, Photography, potatoes, Recipes, tart, Tart of leeks and cheese, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing, yolks
Tagged a book by its cover, baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Food photographer, food photographers, France, nigel slater, Oude Goudse, parmesan, Photography, puff pastry, Recipes, Tender Vol1, writing
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“The Spud” with Joan Collins..
Inside the bubble that is my today, all is peace and tranquility. Outside this bubble, even through the muffling effects of both choice and double glazing, farm machines are ceaselessly thrumming. Those outside of my bubble are marching to the … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Habits, Caviar, Cooking, Cream, creme fraiche, Digital photography, Excellence, Humour, lumpfish eggs, Photography, potato, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Weather, Writing
Tagged Baked potato, caviare, cream, creme fraiche, Henry David Thoreau, Joan Collins, Mother Nature, Prima Donna, The Stud, Walden
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Every picture does not tell this story..
There are occasions when only words will tell the story, not necessarily momentous occasions, although with the passing years I treat the moment of waking each day as increasingly momentous, but simple daily events that move me. Eating a very … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, apricots, burrata, cake, Cheese, Cream, creme fraiche, desserts, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Italian food, lifestyle, Mediterranean food, Mint, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, sea salt, summer, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, Burrata, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Je mange bien tous les jours, momentous occasions, natural beauty, nature, palate, peace and tranquillity, Photography, Photography course, summer eating, Vendee, writing
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Le Rouge et Le Noir… or the long and the short of it.
Gypsy has at last spared me a precious nanosecond in which to accomplish her portrait. She may well have fundamentalist leanings being that her head is covered most of the time as it is buried in the ground digging for freedom … Continue reading
