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the importance of buying Basil
I’m just mad about Basil, but Basil’s not mad about me…..which is disappointing. It may be that I’m too demanding; too in Basil’s face. I want him with me all the time, and Jenny’s OK with that, by the way, … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, beans, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Olive oil, Patricia Wells, Pesto, Photography, Recipes, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cookery books, digital photography, palate, patricia wells, Photography, Photography course, recipe, social networking, writing
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…..has beans
Several mouse clicks ago my opening line would have been very different to this but the moving mouse clicked and having clicked moved on leaving one of my firmly held beliefs in tatters. Baked beans, Heinz or the like, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, anchovies, beans, Cannellini beans with garlic and anchovies, Cooking, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Google, Humour, Olive oil, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Anchovies, Baked Beans, chillies, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, food, Food photographer, Heinz, palate, Photography, recipe, simple logic, social networking, Warhol, writing
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cooking with my hat on…..
When the stars make you drool just like pasta fazool, that’s amore: no it’s not. What it is is pasta e fagioli but even though Dean Martin was Italian, Italians in America become American after quite a short time which entails … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Alistair Little, beans, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Herbs and Spices, Humour, Italian food, Olive oil, Parmesan, pasta, pasta e fagioli, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Alastair Little, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, Dean Martin, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, literature, pasta e fagioli, Pasta Fazool, Photography course, recipe, simple logic, social networking, Vendee, writing
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a very well turned leg…
Among the many things with which I am familiar but, on closer examination, about which I know next to nothing, is the Bible. I undoubtedly absorbed more from Cecil.B,DeMille’s version of Biblical events than I did from the hours of … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, beans, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, gigot, Humour, Meat, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Stephane Reynaud, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, Writing
Tagged Cecil.B.deMille, Chocolate, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, dogma, Easter, Easter Bunny, food, Food photographer, France, Gigot, Humour, Jesuits, loaves and fishes, Photography, recipe, Ripailles, simple logic, Stephane Reynaud, The Bible, writing
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Harry Covair…the third bean
I’ve had to quickly write another post owing to the lack of clarity of my previous one which was intended to be read as a universal cautionary tale of the pitfalls of everymans’ summer vacation rather than a declaration of my … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, beans, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Nigel Slater, Photography, photography course, sea salt, summer, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Weather, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Garden beans, Haricots Verts, Harry Lime, Humour, nigel slater, palate, Photography course, Riesenrad, steaming vegetables, Summer, The Third Man, writing
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Time rich…
I spent all of yesterday afternoon melting some onions and tomatoes for a tortilla. It takes time for onions to melt into an incomparable sweet savoury fondant and more time for tomatoes to transform into a sticky palate stinging jam. … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Andy Harris, Art photography, beans, Cookery Writers, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Garden, Herbs and Spices, Olive oil, Pea Pods, Peas, Photography, pomegranate, Recipes, Shopping, Sumac, Tahini, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Andy Harris, Childhood memories, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Fresh peas, Humour, natural beauty, paragon, Photography, Photography course, pomegranate, pomegranate juice, recipe, Salad, social networking, Summer, Tahini, Time rich, Tortilla, Vendee, writing
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You can tell a book from its cover..
I’ve recently come to the opinion that we’re much more successful at preserving vegetables than we are at preserving youthful looks. In that half land of waking, this morning, the imagined strains of a childhood song, “With a face like … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Art photography, beans, capers, Digital photography, Dreams, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Illusion, Italian food, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, preserved lemons, Reality, Recipes, Tuna, Writing
Tagged Facio maxillary surgery, Illusion, luxury hotels, Plastic surgery, Preserved fruit, Preserved lemons, Preserving, search for youth, tonno fagioli
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Beans talk
The car was laden with fresh poison for Algy which I had just specially purchased to celebrate his unexpected return. I had been to his favourite shop in La Rochelle where once again the friendly salesman took more of our … Continue reading
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