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happily giving into temptation…
Recently I’ve been consuming an inordinate amount of sugar. On the plus side, this surfeit of sweetness, for the most part, is virtual. Well written cookery books, and I purposely make this distinction, should display a health warning. A clear definition of … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Cookery Writers, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Nigel Slater, oranges, Parfait of Lemon and Orange, Parfait of Orange and Lemon, Photographic Prints, photography course, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Clairvoyance, clear thinking, cookery books, Creme de Citron, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, lemon curd, meringues, nigel slater, Parfait of Lemon and Orange, Photography, Photography course, recipe, sugar, Sweetness, writing
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As the sun goes down, a meringue comes up..
The change of season is never more apparent to a food photographer than when taking a daylight picture as the light of the day has begun to fade. On a good day, such as today, it fades away gloriously, but … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, baking, Cooking, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, meringues, Photography, Still life, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, Daylight photography, delicious confection, digital photography, fading light, Food photographer, France, meringues, writing
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F.U.N.E.X
Meringues beget egg yolks which guarantee the survival of Nigella’s Egg Yolk Sponge Cake. The mountain of summer fruit which we have been tasked to eat grows riper and more seductive with each sun filled hour, exacerbating the need for … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, cake, Cookery Writers, Cream, desserts, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Nigella Lawson, Photography, Recipes, Writing, yolks
Tagged a Pale Rider, baking, Breaking eggs, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Hunger, Ignorance, mastering the art of french cooking, meringues, Nigella Lawson, Poverty, Recipes, simple logic, sponge cake, writing, Yolks
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Not standing the heat, I have got out of the kitchen…
Bananas for breakfast in the sun…after coffee and cherries. “Summer Cooking” by Elizabeth David is amongst my favourite books, but on a day like today the title is not. I associate the word cooking with heat, so when the temperature … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, bananas, Breakfast, capers, cherries, Coffee, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Kitchens, Markets, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Weather, Writing
Tagged Breakfast, cookery books, digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, France, meringues, nectarines, outdoors, palate, Photography, Photography course, pickles, potato salad, ripe cherries, smoked trout, strawberries, Summer, Summer Cooking, vegetarian, Vendee, waxy potatoes, white wine vinegar, writing
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Je mange bien tous les jours ……a further episode in which the duck gets it.
Being born a duck is amongst the shortest straws to be drawn in the creation stakes. There you are, a handsome beast, or babe, with a cool beak, great coloured feathers, top swimmer, ace diver and aerobatic ace: but, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, aubergine, Celeriac, Chicken, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Duck, Eggs, Fish, fish cookery, Fish stock, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Kitchens, Laurence Mery-Clark, Meat, Mediterranean food, oeufs a la neige, ouefs a la neige, pasta, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, poached eggs, Poultry, Recipes, Salmon, Vegetables
Tagged cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Donald Duck, Duck jokes, Duck soup, Ducks, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, mastering the art of french cooking, meringues, photographic media, Recipes, red wine, Thai fish soup, wild duck, writing
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The pain of separation….
I was thinking of meringues and then it started raining and the car wouldn’t start. That was one the sequences of events that will eventually make up today. A perfectly blue sky filled with puffy white clouds, reminiscent of a … Continue reading
Posted in Art photography, Autumn, Bad luck, baking, Digital photography, Eggs, Emotion, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Good luck, Humour, Luck, meringues, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Writing
Tagged baking, meringues, nature, separation
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Not so much Eton Mess ….more of a raspberry.
The white cup, containing six egg whites, had been trying to attract my attention for a couple of days. Sweet pastry and lemon fillings tend to create a supply of nascent soufflés and meringues by dint of the phrase “take … Continue reading
