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"Tears and light"
"That gracious thing, made up of tears and light." Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Mondays I usually fast unless something - like a book...
Apr 30, 2024
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The delights and annoyances of a Persian lunch
“One of the joys of restaurants is that they’re a brilliant place for disclosure. If you’re going, ‘Sorry, what? You did what? To whom?’...
Apr 29, 2024
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Detail
"Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail." Leonardo da Vinci A week or so ago now we went to the current Lume exhibition...
Apr 28, 2024
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Old fashioned magic - possets
"Posset is persistent. It’s patient. It seems archaic and impossible, but it’s also just a boozy custard which is very easy to...
Apr 27, 2024
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Underestimating geography - the food curriculum
"Geography is the study of earth as the home of people" Yi-Fu Tuan "Everything has to do with geography." Judy Martz Or as Terry...
Apr 26, 2024
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Desi or dépaysé - inventing comfort food
"Being the child of an immigrant has its own issues because your identity is so torn." Afreena Islam "Desi: a person of birth or descent...
Apr 25, 2024
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Blogging success - A Pinch of Yum. (And oops!)
"People sharing information that helps people." Bjork Ostrom First of all the oops. Somehow or other when I wrote my post about not...
Apr 24, 2024
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When I was 64 - well I thought I was
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" The Beatles This is Collioure - on the Mediterranean coast near the...
Apr 22, 2024
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Trying to make a lucky dip interesting
"Writer's block is having too much time on your hands." Jodi Picoult "Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun." Daniel Pinkwater My lucky dip...
Apr 21, 2024
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Pasta nada - last night's experiment
"A lot of delicious things in life aren't lookers." Felicity Cloake When I first saw those words - 'pasta nada' in an article in one of...
Apr 21, 2024
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Zabaglione, Sabayon, Delia ...
"a fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass, concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch." Elizabeth...
Apr 19, 2024
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Day for it - a sign from below
"Day for it - Weather conducive for the activity currently being undertaken, common phrase in Australia" Urban Dictionary As I was...
Apr 18, 2024
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Almost 100
"There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you." Carol Grace (Apologies - I pressed Publish by mistake when I had written...
Apr 16, 2024
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What's wrong with easy - and is it possible anyway?
"truly simple recipes are too simple to actually be published" "Learn technique not recipes." Reddit I began this post with one idea and...
Apr 13, 2024
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Chermoula - and fish
"The object of the chermoula seasoning is not to mask the natural taste of the food, but enhance it." Robert Carrier I'm pretty sure I...
Apr 12, 2024
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A lucky dip, a website, lamb and avgolemono
"Avgolemono is just so important to Greeks. But maybe it’s even more important to Greeks who’ve left Greece." Simon Glofit So it began...
Apr 11, 2024
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Chicken, not duck, and oranges
Continuing with my throwing out recipe oddments from the folders in which they have been stored I came across two recipes, no three, that...
Apr 10, 2024
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Variations - granola
"There is no real recipe for it, as it is made to the taste of the person preparing it." Family Spice Yes I know - this is not granola. ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Fermented herring to taco Fridays - Sweden
"The backbone of Nordic cuisine comes from dealing with challenges" Rachel Khoo Back to my foodie tour around the world with the third...
Apr 7, 2024
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Hidden potatoes and apples
"Name a dish that isn’t improved, or unaffected, by the addition of a small potato?" Rachel Roddy It's Guardian Feast newsletter day and...
Apr 5, 2024
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