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Lost in the dessert…..
I’m one of the easiest people in the world to talk to which means that it’s a rare waking moment when I and I are not chewing the fat which term is far from apposite as I and I is … Continue reading
Posted in 2019, baking, Bistro, Cooking, Creme Caramel, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, Excellence, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Instagram, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged bainmarie, caramel, classic puddings, Creme Caramel, desserts, digital photography, Food photographer, food photography, France, getting it right, Instagram, living in France, mistakes, Roger Stowell, Roger Stowell Photography
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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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brown sugar, how come you taste so good….*
A pudding as addictive as this is not for the abstemious nor for those who would eschew excesses of sugar and fat. This is phat….hot and tempting, dripping with butter and soft brown sugar, born out of a lasciviously lazy … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Baking, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Pear Tatin, Pears, Photography, pizza oven, Recipes, tarte tatin, tarte tatin, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, natural beauty, palate, Photography, Photography course, recipe, simple logic, social networking, sweet pastry, 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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grape shot….
My mind was elsewhere as the sharp knife in my hands surgically removed the seeds from a large bunch of putative “seedless” grapes. I was reflecting on whether Beulah’s response to her mistress Mae West’s request for a peeled grape … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, baking, Childhood memories, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Good luck, grapes, Humour, Lait Cru, Luck, Milk, Photography, tart, tarte aux raisins, tarte aux raisins, UHT, Uncategorized, Writing, yolks
Tagged baking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, grape tart, Humour, Lait Cru, mastering the art of french cooking, Milk, natural beauty, palate, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, raw milk, recipe, simple logic, social networking, sweet pastry, tarte aux raisins, 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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What to do with a pear….
In the words of Edward Izzard “…pears can fuck off..”; so often, as with apricots, who can also fuck off, this advice proves to be invaluable to the shopper who yearns to be satisfied by one fruit or another. How … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Pears, Photography, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Beaujolais, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Eddie Izzard, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Pears, Photography course, Poached pears in Beaujolais, recipe, Rowley L, social networking, Summer, Vendee, Wine, writing
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on having and eating cake…
A very depressing aphorism suggests that one cannot have one’s cake and eat it which seems contradictory to me as the sole chance of eating one’s cake is indeed to have it, if only for that short time until it has … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, amaretti & raspberry cake, Baking, cake, Cooking, desserts, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Kitchens, raspberries, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Amaretti biscuits, Aphorisms, baking, cake, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Henry Thoreau, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, palate, Photography course, recipe, social networking, Summer, Walden, writing
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smoke and sorcery….
This morning I awoke to the scent of wood smoke; a scent so filled with memories that I wished it could somehow be preserved. On inspection it was clear that some red hot ashes, all that remained of last night’s log fire, had metamorphosed … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, apples, Calvados, cherries, Cherries in Kirsch, desserts, Digital photography, Drinks, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Herbs and Spices, Memory, Mirabelles, Pears, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Plums, Poire William, Poire William, Recipes, Uncategorized, vanilla, Writing
Tagged 60's, Alcools blanc, Breakfast, Calvados, Castel, Cherries, clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Kirsch, Paris, Photography, Photography course, recipe, silence, simple logic, Vendee, woodsmoke, writing
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