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on the different speeds of fast food….
There are few months of the year which I don’t consider to be the very best time for cooking as I’m more than content to cook with each season’s offerings. On reflection, the only times when I am not happy … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Basil, Cooking, courgette, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Mediterranean food, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Rachel Roddy, summer, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Antipasti, Basil, clear thinking, cooking, Courgettes, digital photography, Dragon's Den, fast food, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Lemons, Photography course, Rachel Roddy, social networking, Summer, writing
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taking the piss….
Manneken Pis, Pissenlit, Pisse-Dru, Tant Pis, Pissaladiere…there’s something very French about pissing; about not searching for a convenient bush or shady corner but just having a piss when the moment takes you. I should make it clear that this is singularly, … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, anchovies, Baking, Bay leaves, capers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, olives, onions, photography course, Photography holiday, Pissaladiere, summer, tart, Thyme, Uncategorized, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, palate, Photography course, simple logic, social networking, Summer, writing
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NEW Food Photography Course with Olia Hercules 2017
In June 2017, together with Olia Hercules, I will be running a food photography course at the Villa Le Mazeau in West France. This wonderful location. which is one of Big in France’s holiday homes, is set in the heart of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, BBQ, clay oven, Cookery School in France, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Olia Hercules, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, pizza oven, summer, swimming pool, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Olia Hercules, outdoors, Photography course, social networking, Summer, Vendee
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hanging on……
Soaking up the beauty around me on this warm early morning in late, late August has me desperately trying to suppress the emotions of clinging on, of eking out the pleasure, of denying the ineluctability of time ; childhood’s last strawberry on the plate, adolescence’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Digital photography, Emotion, France, French countryside, harmony, Memory, Photography, summer, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, digital photography, France, misty morning, natural beauty, nature, Photography, social networking, Summer, writing
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bored of the flies…..
The sun has finally, if temporarily, ceased its curmudgeonly behaviour and has had the good seasonal grace to put on its hat and come out to play.Summer’s forte lies in promises rather than foreplay and as these promises are so … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Expectation, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, lifestyle, Photography, summer, Uncategorized, wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, digital photography, fly curtain, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, nature, Photography, social networking, Summer, Vendee, writing
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on a wing and a préau….
The longing, in this month of April, for the warmth of summer is with me for an unseemly proportion of my waking and dreaming moments. A longing that has me limping along these final few furlongs of heavy going before winter, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, artichokes, Bay leaves, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Coriander, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Dreams, Drinks, Elizabeth David, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Olive oil, Photographic Prints, Photography, Recipes, summer, Thyme, Uncategorized, Weather, wine, Writing
Tagged artichokes a la greque, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography, recipe, simple logic, social networking, Spring, Summer, writing
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a last of the summer whine..
I’m wearing socks again which is significant as I have not worn socks for seven years. Those years account for half of the time that we have lived here; that half being the warm and sunny half. The coming up and the … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Baking, desserts, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, Memory, Photography, strawberries, summer, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, changing of the season, clear thinking, cooking, creme patissiere, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography, social networking, strawberry tart, Summer, sweet pastry, writing
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getting the point..
I blame my abiding prejudice against fresh pasta on the world wide television coverage of the spaghetti harvest of 1957 . The sight of those vermicular strands, hanging limply from the branches in the unusually monochomatic region of the Ticino has remained embedded in the not so … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, aubergine, Cookery Writers, Cooking, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Italian food, Mediterranean food, pasta, Photography, Rachel Roddy, summer, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, natural beauty, nature, Pasta, pasticerria, penne, Photography, Rachel Roddy, recipe, social networking, spaghetti harvest of '57, Summer, Ticino, writing
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French Farce…
Stuffed peppers have steadfastly kept their place in my pantheon of “least favourite dishes” As I grow older I have found so many “least favourite dishes” that I am searching for a new duo of comparative and superlative to replace “lesser” and “least”; I … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, anchovies, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Nigel Slater, peppers, Photography, Recipes, Shopping, summer, Supermarkets, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, nigel slater, palate, recipe, simple logic, social networking, writing
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when first we flatten to deceive…
At this time of year Nature conspires with men to produce a contrariness in the flattened versions of some stoned fruit. A peach is a peach when it is suggestive; when its curves make one smile with greedy lust; when the … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Baking, cake, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, peaches, Photography, summer, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, flat peaches, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, jolies fesses, natural beauty, nature, palate, Peach Melba Squares, peche d'enfer, Photography, Pink Lady Photography Competition, recipe, social networking, Summer, writing
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Food, Photography & France 