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cooking notes: November 2009
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Sunday, 29 November 2009. When I feel fragile I need a hug or something. Affection is something physical becoming something sentimental. Eating is affection. I don't like the phrase comfort food. This morning is grey. I drank strong tea, one sugar. I had a digestive biscuit with it. Then I had porridge with cinnamon in. Saturday, 28 November 2009. Or, Too Much. French Provincial Cooking for. Champignons à la crème. I like the feel of restraint when you have a dinner of that kind. This evening's meal,...
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cooking notes: mackerel, bass, free oysters
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Saturday, 28 November 2009. Mackerel, bass, free oysters. Trumpington St, Cambridge. Loch Fyne for dinner. It was Victoria's twenty-first birthday. From the specials I had smoked mackerel pate with onion marmelade. The fish was flaked in a little dish with, I imagine, a very little butter and cream. Although a little dry it was pleasantly salt and retained a good deep flavour of smoked-fish. It needed the marmalade, being sweet and astringent. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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cooking notes: Lucy and Lucien
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Sunday, 27 December 2009. The Story of a Gosling. Or: Tangled Thoughts on Christmas Dinner. The goose, plucked, unbutchered. Removing the neck and skin. Mummy's delicate technique for removing the feet. The housette, my bedroom, the dining room. Goose, I now really agree, is better cold. I've read it so often - in Elizabeth David, Matthew Fort among others - and thought No, you want it hot! On Christmas day you must have a whole, roasted bird, and it has to be goose! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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cooking notes: February 2010
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Monday, 8 February 2010. Sometimes I find reading for this nightmare degree a complete chore. Sometimes it's a joy. I discovered a wonderful piece by Walter Benjamin on food I'd like to write about when I have the time. Today, the fat Welsh librarian kept walking past looking stern at my gasps of laughter reading Edward Lear. I thought I'd post this. It brightened my day. For August, 1870. THREE RECEIPTS FOR DOMESTIC COOKERY. TO MAKE AN AMBLONGUS PIE. Ake 4 pounds (say 4. Serve up in a clean dish, and th...
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cooking notes: hm
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Wednesday, 6 January 2010. Writing about food suits me better than trying to be urbane and sounding irritating writing about restaurants. I need to be a grown-up to do restaurants. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Me and my microplane. Tom Yum, paralytic, Tom Yum, anxiety. Cambridge/Brighton. I cook, eat, write and read. View my complete profile. How to make cascara chocolate. Manhattan In a Weekend. Thring for Your Supper. Travel: Driving Land Rovers in the Serengeti. NORTHALL: DINING IN THE SHINING.
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cooking notes: March 2010
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Monday, 22 March 2010. I think I prefer WordPress. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cambridge/Brighton. I cook, eat, write and read. View my complete profile. How to make cascara chocolate. Manhattan In a Weekend. Thring for Your Supper. Travel: Driving Land Rovers in the Serengeti. DOS HERMANOS: GO EVERYWHERE, EAT EVERYTHING. NORTHALL: DINING IN THE SHINING. Waxed Lyrically; Waning Gibbously. The Anatomy of Hedonism. Tiptoeing into the kitchen.
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cooking notes: January 2010
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Monday, 11 January 2010. Me and my microplane. Alright it's not massive news, but I bought a Microplane. Everyone goes on about Microplanes. If you watch television cookery programmes they all (them TV cooks) use Microplanes. Nigel Slater doesn't usually endorse products but he endorses the Microplane. The "Ask Nigel" he endorses it in hasn't made it to the Observer website, for some reason, unless, bizarrely, I imagined him endorsing Microplanes. It minces very well, which (ha! For zest do I need "fine"?
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cooking notes: Lear's Nonsense Cookery
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Monday, 8 February 2010. Sometimes I find reading for this nightmare degree a complete chore. Sometimes it's a joy. I discovered a wonderful piece by Walter Benjamin on food I'd like to write about when I have the time. Today, the fat Welsh librarian kept walking past looking stern at my gasps of laughter reading Edward Lear. I thought I'd post this. It brightened my day. For August, 1870. THREE RECEIPTS FOR DOMESTIC COOKERY. TO MAKE AN AMBLONGUS PIE. Ake 4 pounds (say 4. Serve up in a clean dish, and th...
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cooking notes: December 2009
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Sunday, 27 December 2009. The Story of a Gosling. Or: Tangled Thoughts on Christmas Dinner. The goose, plucked, unbutchered. Removing the neck and skin. Mummy's delicate technique for removing the feet. The housette, my bedroom, the dining room. Goose, I now really agree, is better cold. I've read it so often - in Elizabeth David, Matthew Fort among others - and thought No, you want it hot! On Christmas day you must have a whole, roasted bird, and it has to be goose! Friday, 18 December 2009. Apparently,...
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