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Archive for April, 2008

artisan bread

Posted in artisan bread, tagged , , , on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Poilâne‘s got competition!   Welcome to a new era of seriously wonderful home-baked artisan bread made in minimal time, with minimal effort and minimal mess. Seeing is believing, the eating is even better but I’m not sure I want to share the secret just yet.  In the meantime I’ll enjoy showing off my (minimal) efforts until either word reaches the shores [...]

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1707 Wine bar (downstairs at Fortnum and Mason)

Posted in restaurants, wine, tagged , , , , , , , on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A fine lunch en route to the Royal Academy exhibition; we tried a wine flight each and loved the experience.  I had read about such things but this was my first time – really enjoyable. Each flight comes as a carousel of 3 different wines, themed by style/grape/provenance, with a view to savouring their similarities and contrasts. Now [...]

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wild garlic

Posted in ingredients, slow food, spring, tagged , , , on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sunday afternoon in the woodland at the end of the lane.  We were hunting for wild garlic and found an ocean of it nestled in among countless bluebells.  The sun wasn’t shining but as good were circles in the stream from the rain drops. We didn’t harvest any of this garlic as the day before [...]

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