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A cake named Joan …
Bakewell is to be found in Derbyshire as well as in the name of a celebrated jam filled, almond flavoured confection but, for me, Bakewell will forever be associated with crumpets. Joan Bakewell is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Almonds, Angels, Art photography, Bakewell Tart, Bakewell Tart, Baking, Childhood, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Illusion, Mary Cadogan, Nuts, Recipes, Sex, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Bakewell tart, baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, Joan Bakewell, palate, Photography, Photography course, recipe, writing
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Lifting the lid…..
A very significant moment of the year has just occurred and passed, unnoticed, to all but me. I have put on a pair of socks. This ceremony is as clear a sign of seasonal change as naked druids dancing at … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Art photography, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Hot Dog, Humour, Meat, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Religion, Sausages, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged alliteration, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, druids, food, Food photographer, Hot dogs, Humour, Photography, Photography course, season's change, socks, writing
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We Three Kings of Ory and Tar…
It’s a lovely song but it doesn’t take much to realise that something, or someone, is missing. The title declares the presence of three kings yet only the king of Tory and his chum, the king of Tar are mentioned. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Chocolate Mousee, Christmas, desserts, Digital photography, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Myrrh, Religion, Three Wise Men, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Bethlehem, Bling, Christmas, Clementines, Myrrh, Tiffanys, We Three Kings..
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Brussels demand a green Xmas…..
September is long gone, but the leaves of brown show no sign of tumbling down this November although the lyricist would be happy to know that it’s raining. Wherever he was when he penned those lyrics, it wasn’t the Vendee. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Autumn, Childhood memories, Christmas, Cooking, Digital photography, Excellence, fashion, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, Kitchens, Landscapes, Olive oil, Photography, Religion, sea salt, The Forest of Mervent, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Weather, Writing
Tagged bah humbug, Brussels sprouts, Christmas, clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, landscapes, marketing, natural beauty, outdoors, puy lentils, Recipes, sweet potato, Torquemada, Toulouse sausages, Vendee, writing, zeitgeist
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Shell shock..
There is a superstition, which I have found to contain more than a grain of truth, that bad things come in threes, as in the three horsemen of the apocalypse. Four horsemen, I hear you say, but. according to my … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cooking, crab, Digital photography, Excellence, fish cookery, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Memory, pasta, Photography, Recipes, Religion, seafood, spaghetti al granchio, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged cooking, Crab pasta, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, Gentleman's Relish, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Humour, joie de vivre, mastering the art of french cooking, Photography, Ruby Wedding Anniversary, simple logic, 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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Cross words and radishes….
The neutral grey of the sky only served to accentuate the multiplicity of greens and ochres that make up the “slap” on the face of the countryside at this time of year. Driving along shiny, rain slick, black lanes this … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cookery Writers, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, harmony, Health, Humour, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, radishes, Recipes, Religion, Sugar, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, crucified, Crucifix, digital photography, Familiarity breeds contempt, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, green countryside, grey skies, Honeymoon, honeymoon period, Je mange bien tous les jours, landscapes, Last Tango in Paris, long honeymoon, misty morning, natural beauty, nature, palate, peripheral vision, Photography, Photography course, Radis, Radishes, Recipes, Slap, Vendee, white wine vinegar, writing
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Always look on the bright side of rice…..
Billions of Christians across the world will be making the best of a Good Friday that was far from good for the main protagonist who was executed in the most grisly fashion for the good of mankind. Looking at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Gennaro Contaldo, Humour, Italian food, lemons, Mediterranean food, Memory, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Religion, Ricotta, Risotto with lemon and ricotta, Thyme, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged anathema, Easter, Gennaro Contaldo, Good Friday, Happy Easter, Prejudice, recipe, Religion, Risotto, Subconscious
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I’ll be yours in buttons and bows…..
I had a favourite aunt who was firm in the belief that men put on dresses when they wanted to appear really important, and it appears that the clergy are keen followers of my aunt’s views. The Ku Klux Klan … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, baking, cake, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Religion, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, buttons and bows, cake, clear thinking, Clergy, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, drabness, food, food photographers, hoops of fire, Humour, Icing sugar, incontrovertible proof, Ku Klux Klan, movers and shakers, photographic media, Pontifical, Religion, Self importance, simple logic, State Circus, writing
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Food, Photography & France 