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Home cook writing down simple recipes for my daughterπŸ‘©β€πŸ³ 🍜🏑 Original poetry & other words πŸ–ΌοΈ 🍎 ✍️ Random nice things Website: www.stewedpears.com Poems: https://stewedpears.com/category/life/ekphrastic-series-based-on-food-art/

Anyone else notice the growing number of automated accounts such as πŸ‘‡ lately? Bluesky saw a 40% drop in daily active users (presume that means real?) in the 12 months to Oct 25 & might move from the public square to a Reddit approach: πŸ‘‰ www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/b... Shame. I like the public square.

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Stewed Pears.com 🍐@stewedpearsdotcom.bsky.social · 5d ago

Recent followers. Can anyone explain this to me please? Are they all the same content aggregator/bot? Is this the growth we see on @bsky.app?

"I love anchovies (I call them 'lil hairy boys'), and I'm always happy to see them on a plate."– Gen Fricker "Baked fennel with anchovy crumbs"!! "Anchovy Bread (pane con acciughe)" !! 🀩 πŸ’€ #TeamAnchovy #recipes #food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜

Fishy business: 20 great anchovy recipes

Anchovies add depth of flavour to all sorts of dishes, from biscuits to braises. It's true that not everyone likes them, but these great recipes just might change their minds!

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"The Norwegianisation of the taco" "hard shelled, filled with minced beef, & topped with cheese, sour cream &lettuce...In the hunter-led northern reaches, reindeer & moose can appear...while smoked salmon, shrimp & other fish versions crop up along the coast." Oh, & it's Taco FRIDAY #food #foodsky 🍜

How tacos became Norway's national comfort food

An oil boom, a supermarket opportunity and decades of adaptation transformed the taco from a Tex-Mex import into one of Norway's most beloved traditions.

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The last dish I cooked in Ivan Day's historical kitchen. Yorkshire Pudding cooked in a pan set below roasting beef or mutton. Initially called Dripping Pudding, it was first called Yorkshire Pudding in Hannah Glasse's 'Art of Cookery' in 1747. We used beef, which is shown here roasting on a...

Reading this at the moment. Coffee was thought to cure dropsy, scurvy, gout, and scrofula, among other things, and was considered the Viagra of the 1600s. #food #foodsky #coffee 🍜

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social Β· 10mo ago

It's #InternationalCoffeeDay! Celebrate with a read of @drmatthewgreen's essay on the halcyon days of the 17th and 18th-century London coffeehouse, a haven for caffeine-fuelled debate and innovation which helped to shape the modern world: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...