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Category Archives: Chicken
thank your lucky stars…and stripes..
This is hardly the right time for right minded Americans (I use the phrase advisedly) to be saying a hearty “thank you” but that’s exactly what a large swathe of them will be doing today although I’m not sure that a … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Baking, BBQ, Chicken, Christmas, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Photography, Poultry, Pumpkin Frittata, Rachel Roddy, Recipes, Thanksgiving, turkey, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, palate, Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkins, recipe, simple logic, social networking, Thanksgiving, writing
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Food Photography Course – September in the Vendée
From the 12-16 September 2016, I’ll be hosting a food photography course, run by Vendée Holidays.UK, at a beautiful old house deep in the heart of the Marais in the Sud Vendée of West France. The area is a treasure … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, BBQ, beef, Chicken, Chicken, clay oven, Cookery School in France, Cooking, cote de boeuf, Digital photography, Fish, fish cookery, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Meat, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, pizza oven, seafood, skate wings, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, social networking, Summer, vacation, Vendee, writing
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..a rude awakening….
When I was first awakened by the black cock it would be fair to say that I was not ready for it. I sleep deeply, maybe not the sleep of the just but, having never experienced that, in a sleep that is … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Bistro, Chicken, Chicken, Cookery Writers, Cooking, coq au vin, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Drinks, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Meat, Poultry, Recipes, Stephane Reynaud, Uncategorized, wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography, recipe, red wine, social networking, writing
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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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who killed coq Aubin?
There are but a few bottles that remain untouched from my wine cellars of yesteryear. I am miserly with them but there is a limit to the wisdom of such miserliness when the object of one’s affection has a finite life span. … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Chicken, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Drinks, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Photography, Poultry, Stephane Reynaud, Uncategorized, wine, Writing
Tagged Burgundy, Chambertin, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, coq au Chambertin, coq au vin, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Gevrey Chambertin, Hubert Lamy, Humour, Photography, Photography course, recipe, red wine, Ripailles, Saint Aubin, Stephane Reynaud, wine cellars, writing
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The cat’s bollocks and other tales…..
The woolly hat pulled down around my ears efficiently protected them from the chill of the biting wind but failed miserably in filtering out the piercing cries of an enraged cat in a cage being carted off for castration. Molly, the cat in … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Chicken, Chicken, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Dreams, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Humour, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Poultry, Recipes, Roast Chicken, sage, sea salt, Sex, Simon Hopkinson, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged Castration, cat, Cats, clear thinking, Cock Robin, cookery books, cooking, digital photography, dreams, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Humour, Lidls, misty morning, Photography, Photography course, Poulet de Bresse, recipe, Roast chicken, Simon Hopkinson, writing
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Angry birds…
The glow of satisfaction in which to bask at the end of a hard day’s work is as elusive to me as a pretty chicken. After living in the French countryside for some years I am as far from conceiving what … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Bad Habits, Chicken, Digital photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography, photography course, Poultry, Uncategorized, Weather, Writing
Tagged angry birds, belle du jour, clear thinking, digital photography, France, hard work, Humour, nature, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, Summer, sweat of one's brow, writing
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Early days for early walks..
Early morning walks with my camera are back in my routine. That is to say that I have done it once this summer. Being as it is only the second day of summer this unique outing still rejoices in the title of … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Chicken, Digital photography, Duck, Eggs, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Poultry, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged alarm clock, clear thinking, digital photography, elegant disorder, France, landscapes, misty morning, morning walk, natural beauty, nature, Old Macdonald, Optimism, outdoors, Summer, Vendee, writing
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Eight bells and all’s well….not totally accurate on the bell count, but OK otherwise….
Another year has been added to the time that I have spent breathing the air of this world. I have reached a biblical point in the scribe’s view of our allotted time and so I am metaphorically putting fingers in … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Boiled eggs, Breakfast, Chicken, Chicken, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography, photography course, Poultry, Sunday, Sunday breakfast, Sunday lunch, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged a leg and an arm, Birthdays, Bras, Breakfast, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, Diane Keaton, digital photography, Emmaus, Emmaus. Emmaus, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Junk shops, Photography course, Portia, Pound of flesh, Shylock, Uma Thurman, woody Allen, writing
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Food, Photography & France 