Live music can liven up a Christmas meal. I was thinking of a saucy rendering of "There were four and twenty virgins came down from...
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Born in Durban; lived in South Africa, Canada, UK and now France. I’ve been a teacher, barman, advertising copywriter, hardware salesman and writer. I have twelve novels published (under another name). We live in a stone house on a former vineyard an hour from the Mediterranean. We have created a garden that has won first prize in our regional park competition. The views are stunning: palm trees on the terrace, chestnuts on the hills, cherries in the valley. It’s a tough life, really.Recent activity
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Christmas Day Fayre.... in the Get Stuffed Branch
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Christmas Day Fayre.... in the Get Stuffed Branch
I like the idea of a wine named after a painter. Chateau Salvador Dali - makes you go limp all over the furniture.
about 1 month ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Christmas Day Fayre.... in the Get Stuffed Branch
Seared scallops with ginger, chilli, garlic with some salad leaves; roast duck stuffed with cepes, roast potatoes, parsnips, broad beans;...
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Effin food! in the Get Stuffed Branch
Mocksie, you'd love the faggots in Norfolk. Very tasty. This is the food branch, isn't it?
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Think thrice before you shun cheaply priced wine in the Get Stuffed Branch
NOTB, Paris is not France. Only Parisians think it is....
5 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Think thrice before you shun cheaply priced wine in the Get Stuffed Branch
Hmm, have you been to France? Being a vegetarian is very difficult, being a vegan impossible.
5 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Think thrice before you shun cheaply priced wine in the Get Stuffed Branch
When we lived a bit further south in the Herault I used to go to the Wednesday market in St Pons de Thomieres. A local wine grower came...
5 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Exotic food in Malaysia in the Get Stuffed Branch
I live in France. I would say that exotic food in France was laksa and bak kut teh....
5 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Hospital food in the Get Stuffed Branch
I had a melanoma removed at the hospital in Montpellier (south France) and had to go back for weekly tests. The first lunch I had there...
5 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Corsican chicken, olive and cepes recipe in the Get Stuffed Branch
Many thanks, Nujtrax. I'll go with the recipe you printed in full, using cepes (and rather more of them because we were given so many). ...
7 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Corsican chicken, olive and cepes recipe in the Get Stuffed Branch
I have just googled Corsican chicken porcini olive recipe. When I got to page 4 of their links, guess what I came across? This thread. So I...
7 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Corsican chicken, olive and cepes recipe in the Get Stuffed Branch
No, I didn't. I don't ever remember using porcini to describe them. Corsica is French so cepes is what they would say. Plenty of recipes...
7 months ago -
posted a new Thorn Tree thread called Corsican chicken, olive and cepes recipe in the Get Stuffed Branch
A neighbour has given us some cepes (only summer cepes but I hope OK taste). I want to do the recipe I had in a Corsican restaurant that...
7 months ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called BBC Olive food magazine in the Get Stuffed Branch
My daughter showed me a copy and I wrote to the editor about what seemed a daft thing. A recipe called for 150 grams of flour plus 2...
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Menu Plan in the Get Stuffed Branch
It sounds an interesting idea, the book Nutrax mentions. I suppose the problem of what to do with leftovers diminshes as you get more...
7 months ago
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