Category Archives: mashed potatoes

“Let them eat carrot cake”…a quicker route to the guillotine…

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Food,Photography & France

I have never come to terms with cake made from carrots. Such root vegetables were very popular as sweetening agents in the 18th century but even Marie Antoinette had more sense than to attempt to appease the ravenous sans culottes with … Continue reading →

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Sausage and mash with onion gravy ….. a good cure for grey Januariness..

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Food,Photography & France

White is absent; grey is in the ascendant. We are at the beginning of our happy new year yet our hopes are already pinned on tomorrow.  Rain drops fall from the eaves mimicking the sound of irregular footsteps but no … Continue reading →

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Of meerkats and mash

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Food,Photography & France

Although an interesting thought, this is not a recipe idea. On a stormy summer morning illuminated by lightning and serenaded by thunder, a recently photographed meerkat entered my stream of consciousness. As a balding man I am in awe of … Continue reading →

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