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So I made Debora’s @lickedspoon.bsky.social prawn & avocado salad (with a couple of tweaks) and it was fabulous. 🦐🥑🥗 #homecooking #sevilla #spain Follow Debora on substack for lots of great stories and recipes from the south of France. open.substack.com/pub/deboraro...

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

I know this means I may never be allowed back into the UK, but Quality Street lost its appeal when they replaced their pretty, spangly wrappers with the dull, slightly Soviet ones (I know,I know, for entirely reasonable planet-saving reasons). So it has to be Marrons glacés.

Muriel Zagha@murielzagha.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sugar rush at Garlic&Pearls HQ: in our Christmas Corker face-off @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I compare and contrast the top seasonal treats of our nations. How sweet! Yes - it’s QUALITY STREET 🇬🇧 vs MARRONS GLACÉS 🇫🇷! A clash of titans… Which do you prefer? Any thoughts, @lickedspoon.bsky.social ?

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

Got some help with the gardening.

Coming up this Friday.... me deciding on this year's xmas dinner in real time, with help from a wide range of people, exploring Christmases past, present and future....

I love it when people throw themselves head first into my recipes! And make them their own. Highest compliment.

Hassinator@hassinator.bsky.social · 8mo ago

les pommes des vendageurs. oh my goodness. drawing on deborah robertson’s lovely recipe I adapted with raclette and thyme. mix of smoked and salted bacon over the potatoes. very nice with a pot roast chicken and a big green salad. a lovely saturday afternoon watching the mighty reds ❤️

At the Grand Prix in Qatar.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 8mo ago

The chef, who was accused of using a racial slur on set, writes that he has been ‘facing his grief’ at the Grand Prix in Qatar

A little obsessed with this new Channel 4 prog, B+B Challenge, where couples who've never worked in hospitality before compete to win a B+B in France by running B+Bs in the Dordogne for a week. Few of them speak any French (how will you run a business?), more than one lot serve frozen croissants.

How to fit 5 litres of chicken stock into a tiny freezer? Reduce it, reduce it, reduce it.

I can't help reposting all the potato recipes. It is in my very blood. I am from potato people.

Debora Robertson@lickedspoon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Some of you were asking me for the recipe for these winegrowers' potatoes last night. It's on my Substack now. The recipe part of the post is for paid subscribers, but you can sign up for a free trial to read it if you would like to. Hope you make it! deborarobertson.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

I made a cappuccino and sloshes a little of my homemade vanilla extract into the milk so I'm basically Starbucks now. Morning.

Some of you were asking me for the recipe for these winegrowers' potatoes last night. It's on my Substack now. The recipe part of the post is for paid subscribers, but you can sign up for a free trial to read it if you would like to. Hope you make it! deborarobertson.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

Some of you were asking me for the recipe for these winegrowers' potatoes last night. It's on my Substack now. The recipe part of the post is for paid subscribers, but you can sign up for a free trial to read it if you would like to. Hope you make it! deborarobertson.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

Made winegrowers' potatoes. Bacon, potatoes, cheese.

Anyway, up the Arsenal.

Lunch. Not terrible.

Good morning from the port.

This 🧵

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

Bayern obviously Tottenham in disguise.

Absolutely raging at the men working outside in the garden. The impertimence.

It's been a tough day for a puppy, essentially doing nothing.

Goodnight from the South of France. Sleep crazy.

Yes, Arsenal, yes.

I am, to be sure, reasonably easily irritated, but people who hurl down hamfisted and usually unsupported statements followed by "You're welcome" should be chased by pitchfork-and torch-wielding mobs.

Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs

Wish me luck. I am going to go and plant about a million bulbs and it is cold with a bitter wind. I am so brave.

Don't take my ball.