Have just looked back at the last two posts, and funnily enough, they are both about food. Again. So I might as well have thirds, and write another post about food. Dan has put up a picture of Eric in Paris, but truly, we were there too…We had three and a bit days there before …
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Recherche de biscuits perdu
I shall start this blog with a couple of literary references, neither as yet checked. My French is also not strong enough to be sure whether biscuits needs ‘perdu’ or ‘perdue’. Anyway, Proust wanted to do a bit of rediscovering of the past, and managed something like that through the (for him) evocative taste of …
Oor ain tatties
So, the soup making has abated a little, mostly through being away a bit. In the meantime, the seed potatoes passed on by Mum have actually been planted, and are starting to come up. Mum and Dad grew potatoes in pots last year, and we were with them one weekend when we earthed up a …
From soup to shining soup
Back to the (primeval) soup…here are the results of the next batches: – broccoli and Cheddar: a particularly fetching green, biggest thumbs up – curried parsnip: not as nice a colour, but very soothing – carrot and carroway: lovely colour, great smell while the seeds are cooking, great taste too – curried green lentil: yet …
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup
When I was still putting our news into yearly letters for Christmas time, I found myself wanting to categorise different years by activity: the year of the flat, the year of decorating, or whatever. I’m not sure whether it feels like that anymore, as certain tasks come round again, or get repeated. However, there is …