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What first attracted me to the millionaire potato cake…
On a recent evening, when I was cooking for one, I came across this very simple recipe, whose heritage I was blissfully unaware. I have always advocated simplicity in cooking which does not in any way imply thoughtlessness or carelessness in the … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Bistro, Chicken, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Excellence, Flat parsley, Foie Gras, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, garlic, Google, Herbs and Spices, Meat, Patricia Wells, Photography, potato, Potato Cake Ami Louis, Poultry, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vicarious pleasure, wine, Writing
Tagged Baked Beans, Bistro, celebrated restaurant, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, L'Ami Louis, La Tache, mistaken identity, palate, patricia wells, Photography, Potato cake, recipe, red wine, restaurants, simple logic, social networking, writing
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getting into Camus..
I have no compunction in firmly closing a book and returning it to the shelf if I am not enjoying it or, indeed, if I simply do not like it. On one such occasion, when I was very much younger, finding … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, arichoke heart salad, artichokes, Bistro, Bouchon, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Elizabeth David, Foie Gras, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Memory, Olive oil, Photography, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Artichaut Camus, Artichoke, Chichester Festival Theatre, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, La Mere Brazier, Lyon, Photography, recipe, restaurants, Shakespeare, social networking, Summer, writing
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Not dropping my knickers whilst shopping….
I like to feel that I eat seasonally but, to be honest, I’m not sure what that means. My knowledge of the arrival and departure dates of fruits and vegetables is, at best, rudimentary and at worst, notional which failing I blame … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, artichokes, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Elizabeth David, Excellence, Foie Gras, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Good luck, Humour, Luck, Memory, Olive oil, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, sea salt, Shopping, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Artichokes, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, France, fruits and vegetables, Humour, La Mere Brazier, Lyon, modest beauty, natural beauty, Photography, Photography course, seasonal eating, shopping lists, writing
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A Tale of Two Pies…
It was the very best of pies: it was the very worst of pies.Veal and ham pie, best described as a long raised meat pie with a row of hard boiled eggs running through the middle, is part and parcel of … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Duck, Eggs, Excellence, Foie Gras, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hard boiled eggs, Humour, Meat, Photography, photography course, Pie, Quail eggs, Truffles, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Boarding School, clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, egg white, food, Food photographer, France, Geneva Convention, hard boiled eggs, Humour, Lyon, meat pie, palate, Photography, Photography course, Picnics, red wine, retching, veal ham and egg pie, writing
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What’s good for the goose is good for the foie gras…
Christmas Eve is big potatoes to me. I’m at home in the steamy atmosphere of cooking and drinking – I find it hard to believe that there are those amongst us who believe that I cannot multi task. Drink and … Continue reading
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