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Category Archives: gigot
hold the anchovies….
I never fail to be surprised at how many people appear have an aversion to anchovies whereas I cannot imagine being without them, in the same way that I cannot imagine being without olive oil, tomatoes, onions and garlic. If ever there … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, anchovies, Baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Emotion, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, friendship, gigot, gratin, Humour, Margaret Visser, Meat, Memory, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Anchovies, baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Edouard de Pomiane, food, Food photographer, Humour, Jansson's Temptation, Margaret Visser, North South Divide, palate, Photography course, social networking, writing
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a taste of 2016….perhaps..
Something has stirred in the forest, still faint, but definitely stirring. The forest in question is the tangled thicket of my thoughts into which a seed has fallen and taken root. If it grows and thrives I shall tell you more … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, beef, clay oven, Cookery School in France, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, gigot, Meat, Photography, pizza oven, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clay oven, clear thinking, cooking, cooking in the open air, cote de boeuf, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Gigot, natural beauty, outdoors, palate, Photography, Pizza oven, social networking, wood fired oven, writing
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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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I got the bleus..du ciel, de la mer..the summertime bleus.
It might surprise you to hear that I’ve been ranting quite a lot over the last day or two, although surprise may not be first among the emotions felt, by those of you who know me well, on hearing that unsurprising news. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, anchovies, Art photography, Chicken, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Emotion, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, gigot, harmony, Humour, Ile d'Oleron, Mediterranean food, Memory, Photography, photography course, summer, Uncategorized, Vendee, wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography course, ranting, Summer, vacation, Vendee, writing
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A well turned leg…
“He’s looking at my legs again…” is the frequent bleat of attractive young lambs. Having your legs checked out, as a lamb, will mean one of two things: you’re about to become the plaything of a lonely shepherd or you’r changing … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, gigot, Herbs and Spices, Humour, Meat, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Rosemary, Thyme, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Gigot, Humour, Near miss, Photography, Photography course, recipe, Viking pyre, writing
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Why put all your eggs in a basket when you have a frying pan….
I watched a sporting match at the weekend that failed to live up to its name. It was not the expectation, nor in fact the event itself, in which lay the failure: it was in the naming…..it was not a … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, BBQ, Cooking, Cream, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Edouard de Pomiane, Eggs, Emotion, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fried eggs, gigot, Humour, Meat, Memory, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, dauphinois, delicious confection, digital photography, disaster, Food photographer, food photographers, Gigot, Humour, Janssens Temptation, mastering the art of french cooking, Photography, potatoes, simple logic, Summer, the curate's egg, writing
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What are two sheep tied to a tree called in La Moussiere?
Oddly enough, much to Celtic amazement, not a leisure centre. However, these two sheep in the meadow adjacent to our house are looking closely at the leisure centre of a, sadly now deceased, local farmer which is encapsulated in this tiny … Continue reading
Gimme shelter…..
And the rain came down……..nothing for it but to have Sunday lunch on Thursday. I decided on gigot – cooks can make unilateral decisions as they’re doing the cooking – and potatoes roasted in goose fat. Whilst preparing the gigot … Continue reading
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