Tuesday 18 September 2012
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Some foods are best enjoyed fresh, like sweetcorn; if recently picked (perhaps put the water on to boil before you go out harvesting?) it just needs a sprinkle of freshly ground salt and pepper and not even a knob of … Continue reading
Friday 13 July 2012
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If not champions, then at least los champiñóns! Today’s breakfast mission was to use up some of the last bits from last week’s veg box before the next one arrives later today. I started with the bag of mushrooms (probably chestnut … Continue reading
Monday 30 January 2012
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Following up Saturday’s monkfish fritters from Rick Stein’s Spain, I then made two further dishes from the book yesterday. First was Oviedo-style beef stew which, unlike most beef stews, uses white wine rather than red as the liquid addition. Skipping … Continue reading
Sunday 13 March 2011
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My pet theory is that there is nothing magical about how babies pick up language. Stick me in Spain for two or three years with nothing to do except learn the language (not even looking after myself) and with every … Continue reading
Tuesday 6 April 2010
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I had a pleasant suprise on Saturday in the form of Paisajismo arriving through the post. Paisajismo is a magazine about landscape architecture and they found my pictures of Taxodium distichum via Flickr. You can find three of them (including … Continue reading
Monday 3 August 2009
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It was a Swedish programme I was watching last night rather than a Spanish one — the Swedish Wallander I mention last week — but the observation remains: there is a flaw with watching a subtitle movie. It was all … Continue reading
Sunday 26 July 2009
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I have been thinking about my travels along the Camino de Santiago again over the last few days. Tonight our housegroup is leading the service at St Clements on the theme of journeys and one of my contributions will be … Continue reading