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Debora Robertson
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I write about food, mostly. Did I tell you I live in France now?
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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.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
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.
murielzagha.bsky.social Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · Dec 17
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 ?
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Debora Robertson
stevemullis.net
incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs

It’s a eggnog recipe
nina b O 2 days ago ***&& I substituted the eggs for duck eggs and milk with geese fat and it came out terrible!! Please write in the recipe when reasonable substitutions cannot be made. +-2- → Reply Admin Stacy Popham © 5 hours ago | @ Reply to nina b Let me break this down for you.Duck eggs instead of chicken eggs? That's actually fine. Duck eggs work in eggnog. That's not your problem. Goose fat instead of milk? Goose fat is a solid cooking fat for roasting potatoes. Milk is a liquid dairy product. They are not interchangeable You essentially made hot melted goose fat with duck eggs. Of course it was terrible. Bottom line: If you fundamentally change the structure of a recipe by using completely different ingredients with entirely different properties, you're not making eggnog. You're conducting a failed science experiment. Make it again with actual dairy and report back.
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Got some help with the gardening.
A small brown dog covered in soil.
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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dranniegray.bsky.social
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....
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
I love it when people throw themselves head first into my recipes! And make them their own. Highest compliment.
hassinator.bsky.social Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · Dec 6
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 ❤️
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
At the Grand Prix in Qatar.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
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.
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
How to fit 5 litres of chicken stock into a tiny freezer? Reduce it, reduce it, reduce it.
A white chopping board on a wooden table. Reduced chicken stock has been cut into square - it looks like fudge.
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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btwnthesepages.bsky.social
I can't help reposting all the potato recipes. It is in my very blood. I am from potato people.
lickedspoon.bsky.social Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · Dec 2
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...
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
I made a cappuccino and sloshes a little of my homemade vanilla extract into the milk so I'm basically Starbucks now. Morning.
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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lickedspoon.bsky.social
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...
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
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...
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Made winegrowers' potatoes. Bacon, potatoes, cheese.
A round "cake" of potatoes and cheese wrapped in bacon, one slice cut out to reveal the interior.
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Anyway, up the Arsenal.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Lunch. Not terrible.
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Good morning from the port.
A view from a balcony over a small French port.
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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rankamateur.bsky.social
This 🧵
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Oct 1
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.
From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt, At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened. You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Bayern obviously Tottenham in disguise.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Absolutely raging at the men working outside in the garden. The impertimence.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
It's been a tough day for a puppy, essentially doing nothing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Goodnight from the South of France. Sleep crazy.
A brown puppy in a grey fluffy dog bed, lying on her back with her legs in the air like she just don't care. Cos she don't.
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
lickedspoon.bsky.social
Yes, Arsenal, yes.
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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.
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM