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Category Archives: Jam
chicken marmalade…..
I can never understand how jam, a confit of boiled fruit and sugar, can be known by the catchall of jelly and yet, in the USA, it apparently is. It’s the lack of care in defining the difference between a thick syrup, laden … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Apricot jam, Breakfast, Chicken, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Grape jelly, Humour, Jam, Language, Photography, Poultry, Roast Chicken, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, etymology, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, jelly, palate, Photography, simple logic, social networking, writing
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Peanut envy…..
Occasionally I am led to rethink my personal food prejudices but the addition of “jelly”, a term that I have never fully come to terms with in this particular context, to peanut butter is not among those occasions. Such a sublime … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Grape jelly, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Prints, Toast, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, impasto, impasto layer, jelly and peanut butter, John Bratby, palate, peanut butter, Photography, Photography course, strap on, teatime, teatime treat, Venus de Milo, 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
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What starts off sweet, gets bitter and ends up nicely?…this post.
Why such a large proportion of us human beings should be so interested in the minutiae of lives that are as distant from our own existences as the sun, is always a surprise to me. As the polar caps melt, … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Emotion, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Grape jelly, Jam, Martha Stewart, nectarine tart, nectarines, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, Recipes, Religion, Sugar, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged "big house", baking, Circus Maximus, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, corporate hospitality, delicious confection, delicious desserts, digital photography, fashionista, food photographers, frozen puff pastry, George, hot house, Humour, photographic media, Photography course, polar caps, Populus Romanus, social networking, Summer, sweet pastry, tattoing, writing
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Sponge cakes keep sticking to my bottom…
“I’ve tried everything” is a phrase often mouthed by those frustrated in adversity. What is startlingly clear to the listener is that, indeed, everything has not been tried. Among the things that have not been tried is the right thing. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, apricots, Baking, cake, Cookery Writers, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, harmony, Humour, Jam, Nigella Lawson, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Sugar, Writing
Tagged Nigella Lawson, sponge cake, sticking to the bottom, the Kitchen Goddess, thick cream
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…ham and jam, kippers and treacle..
I was not myself this morning. Who I was is as yet unclear to me but, what is sure, is that the person in question had a pioneering palate. Pioneering, as an adjective, may seem romantic and exciting to some … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Bad Habits, Breakfast, Cheese, Coulommiers, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Grape jelly, grapes, Humour, Illusion, Jam, photography course, Photography holiday, Toast, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Brie, clear thinking, collation, Davy Crockett, digital photography, discerning palate, early morning, food, Food photographer, foolhardiness, France, go where no man has gone before, Grape Jelly, Humour, palate, Photography course, Pioneering spirit, Quiet contemplation, simple logic, temporary insanity, writing
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Food, Photography & France 