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- 21 hours ago
Eggs - what's in a name?
"The variations on this simple dish are infinite" Robert Carrier Indeed they are and it is perfectly easy to become completely confused...
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- Jan 20
A 46 year-old bottle of wine
"Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of...
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- Dec 27, 2022
Dinner on 9 June 1979
"You are going to love this : I unearthed the menu you served on 9 June 1979" Wendy Wendy is a friend from long ago, and now a faithful...
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- Dec 20, 2022
Christmas dilemmas
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” Garrison Keillor I'm...
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- Nov 7, 2022
Genteel sandwiches on the lawn
"Everything tastes better outdoors." Claudia Roden It's such a beautiful day - you can almost imagine that summer is actually on its...
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- Oct 13, 2022
Serve with?
I said I would, and tonight is the night that I am going to cook Ottolenghi's Double lemon chicken with cheat's preserved lemon. It's...
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- Aug 30, 2022
Who eats supper? What is supper?
"Hunger makes dinners, pastime[s] suppers." George Herbert "Dinner but a bit later" David Such a simple word supper, but so vague in...
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- Jun 30, 2022
"The most exciting meal of my life"
This is me, roundabout the age of fifteen I think, and so a little older than when I experienced the most exciting meal of my life. It's...
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- May 29, 2022
Coffee and a chocolate biscuit
"when the going gets tough the tough take a coffee break" I don't often take a coffee break, not like I did when working, when it was a...
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- May 24, 2022
The continental breakfast
"Nothing illustrates the British disdain for Europe like the concept of Continental Breakfast." The History Woman's Blog Inspiration for...
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- May 16, 2022
An English last meal
"Feasting is about how you eat as much as it is about what is on your plate. It is rarely about greed or ostentatiousness, large numbers...
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- May 15, 2022
Food, ambience, the company - what is most important?
"I think the taste had more to do with the fact that it was a cool but sunny day; we ate with the doors wide open, so maybe that should...
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- May 2, 2022
How hard can it be?
My lovely friends took pity on my solo state today and took me along with them on their Monday walk out on the edge of the Yarra Valley,...
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- Feb 15, 2022
Time and the weather - are they the same?
"il tempo - (1) Time (2) Weather (3) Half (as in soccer) (4) Part (as in a film or a book, etc.)" Collins Easy Learning Italian...
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- Jan 31, 2022
Salad days - not my thing
"I must acknowledge my true nature. I am a winter cook currently forced to endure the summer months." Jay Rayner - The Guardian I...
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- Dec 14, 2021
Back - to basics and beginnings
It's been almost a week since I have created a post for this blog. Why? Well all sorts of reasons, most of them being just that I have...
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- Dec 3, 2021
Don't mess with Christmas dinner
"not in our family anyway" Above are two shots from our recent Christmas dinner with the family before half of the family left for Spain...
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- Nov 29, 2021
The dilemma of Christmas pudding
“It is a problem certainly, that Christmas plum pudding. There is here something that I do not understand at all.” Hercule Poirot in...
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- Nov 28, 2021
Hors d'oeuvre variés - a first recipe
"The real purpose of the hors d'œuvre cours is to stimulate the appetite, not to drown it." Robert Carrier The picture at left is from...
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- Oct 27, 2021
Rosemary Olive cake - a cake for me
"The rosemary is the wild card factor here. And it's so good. It heats up in the oven as the cake is baking and permeates the cake in a...
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