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on retaining one’s paddle when up that creek…
There is a creeping despondency in the air that is almost tangible. This glum onset of what should be bright summer is eerily apposite. I am truly grateful not to live in the mainstream of life any more and to … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Alistair Little, Art photography, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, Drinks, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, peppers, Photography, tomatoes, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Photography, red wine, 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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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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it’s not the thought, it’s the gift…
Small gifts of vegetables are always welcome in our kitchen. We lack the room needed to grow them ourselves but, most of all, we lack the will power. Being surrounded by horticultural magicians, it’s clear that any effort on our … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, courgette, courgette flan, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, peppers, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Rachel Khoo, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged baking, broom sticks, clear thinking, cooking, Coven, Covent Garden, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, horticulture, Humour, magicians, natural beauty, necromancy, Photography, Photography course, Rachel Khoo, recipe, red peppers, social networking, Walpurgis, writing
49 Comments
Getting properly stuffed…
The association of stuffing and peppers has the ring of anathema. Experience, together with hearsay, tells us that nothing good can come of it. Just the mere consideration of such a possibility awakens the culinary Torquemada that lurks in the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, anchovies, buffalo mozzarella, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Italian food, Nigel Slater, Olive oil, peppers, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, Let it be, Margor Asquith, Margot Asquith, nigel slater, Photography course, recipe, red pepper, Stuffed peppers, Torquemada, writing
40 Comments
Hot day, blazing chillies, cold pasta…
Eating outside on a hot, still day, in the shade of the house is a pleasure that I keenly anticipate throughout the winter months. Most enjoyable of these moments are the impulsive, unpremeditated occasions when it just seems like the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Art photography, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Italian food, Olive oil, pasta, peppers, Photography, photography course, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Weather, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, olive oil, pasta sauce, Photography, Photography course, recipe, Summer, tomato sauce, Vendee, writing
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Spend, spend, spend…..
Today, I have been writing, cooking and taking pictures which, to my mind, has been time well spent. My principal currency is time and, as it cannot be saved, I spend freely of it. The house is quiet and the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, anchovies, capers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Kitchens, pasta, peppers, Photography, photography course, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Photography, Photography course, Vendee, writing
49 Comments
It seems that prostitutes and pasta are as closely linked as literacy and Alphabetti….
I was saddened to find that the origin of salsa puttanesca has nothing to do with an exhausted courtesan, yearning for some stimulation after a long night of simulation, having a eureka moment as she looked into a store cupboard … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, anchovies, chillies, Cooking, Digital photography, Excellence, Fish, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Italian food, Olive oil, pasta, peppers, Photography, photography course, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, courtesan, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, Photography, Photography course, Puttanesca, recipe, red wine, Rorschach, Salsa puttanesca, The Sopranos, writing
58 Comments
A cuckoo in the nest…
Hidden on the book shelves, amongst my favourite cookery books, there is a cuckoo. He, if as a chap myself I can give masculine gender to this cuckoo, has no right to be there and, over the years, I have … Continue reading
Posted in 70's, Brown rice with peppers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, peppers, Recipes, sea salt, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged brown rice, cayenne pepper, cookery books, cooking, Cuckoo's nest, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, French cooking, French letter, Green Peppers, hermaphrodite, Humour, Magpie, mastering the art of french cooking, Photography, Recipes, Rightful place in the sun, socks and sandals, 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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Food, Photography & France 