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Matt
@matt600000.bsky.social
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Enjoy cooking, baking, and gardening. Sports fan - football, cricket, rugby league. History graduate. Music lover. Theatre fan. Gay. NHS worker. Floating voter.
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This is regarded by many as ABBAs best song. It went on to inspire hits for the Sex Pistols, Girls Aloud and countless songwriters in between. It’s all here: the pathos and drama of intense romantic despair delivered via a peerless melody and a minor-to-major chorus explosion.
#ABBA #music #70s #pop
February 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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What a race! Loving the snowboard cross.
#winterolympics
February 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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As you might have realised, I love making soup. It makes me feel all cosy knowing something nice is bubbling away on the hob.
Today's doup is a chicken and chickpea soup, lightly spiced with cumin, ginger and turmeric.
Recipe from Sophie Dahl.
#food #foodsky #lunch #goodlunch #homecooking #soup
A bowl of chicken and chickpea soup, lightly spiced with cumin, ginger and turmeric, and sprinkled with coriander leaves. Served with a couple of brown crusty rolls on the side.
February 15, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Surely you've got to be a bit unhinged to be a ski jumper?
#winterolympics
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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First time making medeleines and quite pleased with how they turned out. Quite a few needed trimming (overfilled them) and a few have caught on the edges but not a bad effort.
Lemon and black pepper madeleines. Recipe from @nigelslater.bsky.social
#food #foodsky #homecooking #baker #homebaking
A dozen lemon and black pepper madeleines sat on a plate
February 14, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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A bit of self love on Valentine's Day. Beef and shallot hotpot, served with buttered carrots and sprouts.
Recipe from James Martin.
#food #foodsky #dinner #homecooking #comfortfood
Beef and shallot hotpot, with the traditional topping of sliced potatoes. Served with buttered carrots and sprouts on the side.
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Scotland would be one of the best sides in the world if they could play with this intensity against every team they face. Yet they only ever seem capable of doing so against England. Mindset issue?
#rugby #ScoEng
February 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Well this referee clearly just wants to make himself popular with the home crowd
#rugby #ScoEng
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Wish itv would stop showing adverts during the actual match. Why have they started doing it this year?
#rugby
February 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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A delightful (if rather muddy) walk this afternoon, starting at Beckwithshaw, passing several farms, through Haverah Park and around Beaver Dyke Reservoir.
#walk #walking #outdoors #nature #Yorkshire
Looking out over the fields from Beckwithshaw. There is a wall in the foreground topped with a light dusting of snow. Walking through some woods. There are some fallen logs in thd foreground and trees in the distance. The remains of John O'Gaunt's hunting lodge. Basically a pile of stones with a bit of snow on top of them. John was the uncle of King Richard II and was the power behind the throne when Richard became king at aged 10. Beaver Dyke reservoir. A relatively small piece of water, surrounded by grass and a few trees.
February 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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First time ever watching an opera tonight. Thought I'd begin with one in English so I can understand what's going on.
#theatre #opera #music
Poster for the opera "Peter Grimes"
February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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First time making gnocchi from scratch tonight, and they've turned out okay. Served with a homemade winter pesto made from garlic, pine nuts, parmesan, baby spinach, rocket and watercress.
Recipe from James Martin.
#food #foodsky #Italy #homecooking #homemade
A bowl full of gnocchi covered in a homemade winter pesto made from garlic, pine nuts, parmesan, baby spinach, rocket and watercress. Some extra parmesan is grated over the top.
February 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Lunch today is a roasted root vegetable salad topped with feta.
Recipe from Sophie Dahl.
#food #foodsky #homecooking #salad #lunch #goodlunch
A lunchbox containing a roasted root vegetable salad topped with feta cheese.
February 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Comfort food at its best (in my opinion st least). Fish pie topped with potato and celeriac mash. Served with buttered cabbage.
Recipe from Sophie Dahl.
#food #foodsky #fish #comfortfood #homecooking
An oven dish containing fish pie which is topped with potato and celeriac mash. Served with buttered cabbage on the side.
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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And now for a Christmas dessert. Christmas pudding ice cream with oranges and caramel sauce.
Recipe from James Martin.
#food #foodsky #Christmas #homecooking #pudding #dessert
Christmas pudding ice cream with oranges and caramel sauce.
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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This next track really is the peak of Abba’s disco adventures and became an instant gay anthem. It's also contains a beguiling tension: in the throes of divorce from Björn, Agnetha sings a hymn to desire and sexual freedom with lyrics by her former husband.
#music #70s #pop #disco #ABBA
February 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Cooking from the "winter" chapter of a cookbook invariably means that at least one if the recipes will be devoted to Christmas dinner. Here is Sophie Dahl's take on the festive favourite.
#food #foodsky #roast #comfortfoood #homecooking #Christmas
Several slices of roast chicken, cornbread stuffing, braised red cabbage, roast potatoes, and swede/turnip mash.
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Would people kindly stop sending me emails. Work is busy enough at the minute without lots of emails to answer.
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Sophie Dahl says of her recipe: "This always reminds me of Christmas menus in posh hotels".
Chestnut and mushroom soup, served with mini soda bread rolls.
Recipe from Sophie Dahl.
#food #foodsky #lunch #goodlunch #soup #homecooking
Chestnut and mushroom soup, decorated with chopped chestnuts and a swirl of cream. Served with two mini soda bread rolls.
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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What is your favourite Disney movie?
February 10, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Feeling a bit under the weather today so needed some comfort food. Chicken, pea and sweetcorn pasta bake, topped with lots of cheese and served with a side salad.
#food #foodsky #pasta #homecooking #comfortfood
Chicken, pea and sweetcorn pasta bake, topped with lots of cheese and served with a side salad.
February 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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These figures skating judges lack taste
February 9, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Writing about divorce is one thing; asking your ex-wife to sing it quite another. Björn has always declared that today's track is a work of fiction, however the song’s original working title, 'The Story of My Life', suggests otherwise.
#music #80s #ABBA #pop
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Pasta puttanesca translates as "whore's pasta". It's full of bold, punchy flavours like garlic, chilli, anchovy and olives, and is meant to evoke Neopolitan streets and dangerous women in tight dresses.
Recipe from Sophie Dahl.
#food #foodsky #pasta #homecooking #Italy
A bowl of pasta covered in a sauce made from tomatoes, olives, parsley, garlic, chilli and anchovies. Sprinkled with grated parmesan cheese.
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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City last did the league double over Liverpool in 1936/37.

Still, at least fascism isn't on the rise this time, eh?
February 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM