The Froth

Marmalades in the post

9. February 2006

Remember talking about breakfast? I received some jams from Britain, sent by the one and only Steve. Lime marmalade, strawberry jam and Seville orange marmalade. Therefore, breakfast was delicious. (Thank you Steve, I was right calling you Sweetest). My son’s teacher (for the uninitiated, that’s the “There’s no Santa Claus” teacher) made him fill [...]

New morning

8. February 2006

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Isn’t breakfast the best meal of the day? Because you can eat all you want without remorse. And it’s not fussy and you can gulp it down while reading the papers or your friends’ blogs, or Real Simple (this magazine is one of my latest obsessions. I went out last night during a blizzard in [...]

Eat like an Egyptian

10. December 2005

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I wasn’t trying to create an artistic effect there. I was in the car, going to the restaurant. And going, going, going. Here we are. This is an Egyptian restaurant called Alexandria. Harry told me about it. Thank you Harry, it was really nice. Here’s my pumpkin soup. I had to give M. some, which didn’t make [...]

Senior citizens are wild

20. November 2005

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Normally I wouldn’t consider going to M’s mum’s birthday a great Saturday night out. Being old myself however does the trick, so if I want to be honest I have to admit it wasn’t bad at all. M’s mum is a good cook so she had prepared all kind of veggie things for [...]

Ho, ho, ho

3. November 2005

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I am cooking a vegetarian Christmas dinner. The photographer will be here in about 3 hours and everything must be ready by then. It’s all right, I only have to make the pine nut –carrot roast and some warm wine with spices. The best part is that I bought some Christmas ornaments for the [...]

And into the kitchen she goes

30. September 2005

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In case you were waiting for something slightly more interesting to comment on, let me tell you, it ain’t coming. Because now, I’m going into the kitchen and messing about with pots and pans and pumpkins. And you stay there in blogosphere and be nice. Because when I come out of the kitchen, I [...]

Eat you up

29. September 2005

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The magazine is out today and among other things has the recipes and photographs of the food I cooked. I scanned them, especially for Cisco who had asked for them. The first one is mushroom burgers and the other one is mushroom mousaka. The photographer is coming again tomorrow and this time I’m making pumpkin [...]