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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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’tis the season that dare not speak its name ….
Cake and chocolate are two “C” words that have not, as yet, been proscribed. Christmas and cunt have been. Creating forbidden fruit has never succeeded in producing an aversion in those to whom the fruit are irresistible. Words of all kinds are irresistible … Continue reading
Posted in baking, cake, Childhood memories, Christmas, Cookery Writers, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Dominique's Chocolate Cake, Eileen Reece, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, harmony, Humour, hypocrisy, Memory, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Recipes, Writing
Tagged baking, cake, Chocolate, Christmas, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Eileen Reece, food, Food photographer, forbidden fruit, France, French cooking, Han van Meegeren, Humour, Photography, Photography course, recipe, writing
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Madeleine does modelling
Today I shall be mostly eating Madeleines. This is not on account of a drug induced feeding frenzy nor of a sudden gluttonous urge, but on a failure of basic cooking sense. I blame LBC – for those beyond the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, baking, Childhood memories, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, Chocolate, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, LBC, Madeleines, Modelling, Photography course, writing
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Hot chocolate virgin…
This country drips chocolate from every pore. In provincial France, good chocolatiers are nearly as ubiquitous as shoe shops, which only sell grotesque shoes, opticians and dodgy hair dressers upon which trio the French economy appears to depend. The illusion … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, Art photography, baking, Baking, Brownies, Digital photography, Dogs, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hot choclate, Humour, Poodles, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, Breakfast, Brownies, Chic, chocolat chaud, Chocolate, chocolate brownies, Cocoa, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Hot Chocolate, Humour, La Rochelle, Les Francaises, Poodles, writing
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Food, Photography & France 