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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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‘aving a larf..
It is not unusual for children to dislike, and to take extreme steps to avoid, both vegetables and Shakespeare. I prefer vegetables to either children or Shakespeare which preference may well be blamed on their parallel and equally irritating proclivity to tell jokes that aren’t funny; it … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, Elizabeth David, fennel, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Humour, onions, peppers, Photography, Recipes, Saucisses a la Navarrais, Uncategorized, Vegetables, wine, Writing
Tagged children, chorizo, Christopher Marlowe, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, France, Hamlet, Humour, laughter, palate, Philip Marlow, recipe, red wine, Shakespeare, simple logic, social networking, Vegetables, writing
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If there are no Incas available, string up an onion……
I’m beginning to suspect that La Moussiere may have been a far flung outpost of the Inca empire. Although the name Atahualpa is not as common in the neighbourhood as I would have expected, there is a common thread that … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Art photography, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, onions, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Atahualpa, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, gold, Humour, Inca empire, Incas, La Moussiere, Photography course, string, writing
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Pommes Boulangere.. smart lady, that baker’s wife
Each time that I make this simple dish there is, at the back of my mind, a nagging feeling that I have left out an ingredient. The recipe is not extensive in its demands which makes it even more surprising … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, Bistro, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Drinks, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Kitchens, leeks, onions, Patricia Wells, Photography, pommes boulangere, potatoes, Recipes, sea salt, Thyme, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, palate, patricia wells, Photography course, pommes boulangere, recipe, Recipes, red wine, writing
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saucy thoughts..
Custard was still on my mind, like the lingering aftermath of a bad dream, whilst I was making tomato sauce yesterday, but the yellow mental miasma was quickly dispersed by the rising savoury aroma, the deep colour and the evocative flavours … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cooking, Elizabeth David, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Italian food, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, onions, Photography, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, French Provincial Cooking, Laurence Harvey, Manchurian Candidate, palate, Recipes, red wine, tomato sauce, writing
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It’d take more than an apple to tempt Adam…
Given the choice of watching paint dry or onions browning, I’d opt to sit on a terrace overlooking clear blue sea with a chilled glass of something delicious . I take this choice whenever I’m engaged in important, but time … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, buffalo mozzarella, Cheese, Cookery Writers, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Humour, Kitchens, Mary Cadogan, mash, Maxine Clark, Memory, Nuts, onions, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pie, Pine Nuts, Recipes, Sex, strawberries, tart, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Adam and Eve, baking, beast with two backs, Clear blue sea, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, home economist, Humour, Laocoon, Mary Cadogan, Maxine Clark, Photography, Recipes, Sex manual, Southwark Bridge Road, Studios, synapses, Toreadors, woody Allen, writing
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an appetite for Morocco and lizards …
Today, I rescued a lizard from drowning. Not once, but twice. This is unusual as I am normally the lizard pallbearer. Lemmings may have been cleared of suicidal tendencies, but the lizard’s tendency to ring down its own curtain has … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, aubergine, Cookery Writers, Cooking, cous cous, Digital photography, Drinks, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Garden, Geranium, Herbs and Spices, Mediterranean food, Oleander, onions, peppers, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Weather, wine, Writing
Tagged butterflies, cookery books, cooking, cous cous, digital photography, food, Food and company, food photographers, France, imagination, lavender, Lizards, Mme.Guinaudeau, nature, olive trees, Recipes, Rescue, Riad, shadows, Summer, Traditional Moroccan Cookery, writing
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…putting a name to a beak.
In the still of this sunfilled early morning, there’s me and legion of small birds who are all making their particular peaceful noises, that I recognise but can’t put a beak to. Bees, so fat that they have no business … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Baking, Breakfast, capers, Cooking, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, onions, oranges, pastry, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Provence, Recipes, summer, tart, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Weather, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged baking, bees, birdsong, Breakfast, clear thinking, cooking, crisp pastry, delicious confection, Eureka moment, food, Food photographer, France, Groundhog Day, Humour, Mediterranean food, morning coffee, natural beauty, olive oil, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, red wine, single bee, Summer morning, tomato sauce, writing
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One fine morning….
A grey morning found me cutting firewood behind the house. The squeak of an old barn door opening announced the arrival of Annie, one of our neighbours. Annie and her husband Remy have raised Charolais beef cattle for the last … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Emotion, Farming, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, friendship, Health, leeks, lifestyle, New Year, onions, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Soup, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Weather, Writing
Tagged Caribbean, food, food photographers, France, Guadeloupe, Holiday, Photography, travel, vacation, writing
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When she was good she was very, very good but when she was bad she was horrid….
In the comparatively short time that we have lived in this little hamlet there have been significant changes. During my previous life, as an urban dweller, these changes would have gone unnoticed. In those times I had no interest in … Continue reading
