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Pickling prep
Thursday 9th December 2021, 11.45am (day 3,759) No other veg is quite so purple as beetroot. Not this rich, vibrant purple that stains everything around it, anyway. And in such a grey, alien-looking...
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Pete, barbeque man
Saturday 18th June 2022, 4.00pm (day 3,950) The English summer weekend. We cook and eat our food outside despite it only being about 13ºC. And there is some obligation for middle-age men to be the...
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Fresh ingredients
Sunday 3rd July 2022, 4.55pm (day 3,965) Summer fruits and rosemary. All picked from the garden just before this picture was taken: and all eaten, one way or another, within an hour afterwards. Most...
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Drying cabinet
Saturday 16th July 2022, 12.30pm (day 3,978) This is not the sort of thing you see in every pub visited. But The Griffin, in Amersham, certainly takes its food preparation seriously. The ray in the...
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Cake stall, Sunday market
Sunday 6th November 2022, 1.50pm (day 4,091) Actually she looks just like the kind of person who I would trust to deliver a really good cake. And it certainly looks that way, though I didn’t try the...
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Shrove Tuesday essentials
Tuesday 21st February 2023, 6.40pm (day 4,198) Ignoring the currently redundant mug and bowl, we have: sugar; syrup; lemons; and wine. The pancakes are on the way — after that, nothing else is...
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Non-binary pepper
Monday 27th February 2023, 4.05pm (day 4,204) “I know I present as red. But inside there’s that little bit of green that’s always been on the verge of coming out.”
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My lunch: the final stages
Sunday 30th July 2023, 12.50pm (day 4,357) A tasty pasta dish, being prepared by the good chefs of the Eagle pub on Farringdon Road, London. She’s allowed one bit of pasta to escape, but I’ll let that...
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Dinner: early start
Tuesday 21st November 2023, 2.25pm (day 4,471) Enmeshed in the first major bout of marking of the year, today was the first day for quite a while where I never left the house, so you weren’t getting...
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Ingredients for later
Monday 15th January 2024, 10.50am (day 4,526) Joe bought me a book of Indian-style recipes for Christmas. I wanted to try some tonight, but many of the more obscure spices that were suggested were...
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