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Home cook👩‍🍳 Simple recipes I'm writing down for my daughter🍜🏡
Poetry & writing (original, yes me, not AI) inspired by food & art ✍️ Random stuff
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Poems: https://stewedpears.com/category/life/ekphrastic-series-based-on-food-art/
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🤫just seeing how this looks
#poetry #poem #renoir #art #poetrycommunity #peaches
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It's all done, folks! I finished the #FoodSafety PDF! These are some tips on how to keep your kitchen and food as safe as possible. Plus, you get the advantage of reading about my #cats
#Cooking #TheOutpost #Cooks #Food #FoodSky #CookingSky #recipes #SurvivalKitchen

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Survival Kitchen! Today is the Day. The Published PDF
Montis Boeher published a post on Ko-fi
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November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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"To-day I think
Only with scents,– scents dead leaves yield,
And bracken, and wild carrot's seed,
And the square mustard field;

Odours that rise
When the spade wounds the root of tree,
Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,
Rhubarb or celery"
-Edward Thomas from "Digging" (Last Poems, 1918)

#food
My photo of cut green and crimson rhubarb pieces in a pot ready for stewing with orange juice and sugar
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social
as a massive fan of shakespeare this was a delight to listen to

#foodsky #writersky #booksky
neilbuttery.bsky.social Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 2d
Evening all.

Just in case you didn't know, The British Food History Podcast is now available to listen to on YouTube, including the most recent episode Shakespearean Food & Drink with @mrssbilton.bsky.social

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Shakespearean Food & Drink with Sam Bilton
YouTube video by The British Food History Channel
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November 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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goodport.bsky.social
A moment of zen, complete with photo-bombing turtle. 🐢
#momentofzen #zen #nature #autumn #waterwednesday
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Daughter baking up a storm. Blueberry yoghurt cake. Used fresh berries & followed the recipe which said to gently spoon through, but berries still sunk.
Tips?? Put some batter in the bottom of the tin first, then portion berries through remainder?
Scrumptious rating: 🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
overhead view of a cake-loaf in baking paper in a loaf tin two plates on a table. On the front plate a slice of blueberry yoghurt cake showing a vanilla cake with blueberries spread around the bottom of the slice. Behind, is the rest of the loaf. A fireplace in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
Daisy Jones & the Six
My photo taken from underneath white daisy flowers reaching up to a blue sky. Some of the flowers are in bud
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Are these movies also on your favourites list?

It's a Wonderful Life
The Sound of Music
Ordinary People
Life is Beautiful

#movies #film #art
Pope Leo shares his all-time favorite movies | CNN
Pope Leo XIV has revealed his favorite movies, ahead of a meeting with prominent figures from the film world on Saturday.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
The Simple Life
My photo of a seagull against a blue sky with white streaky cirrus fibratus clouds in the background My photo of a seagull against a blue sky with white streaky cirrus fibratus clouds in the background
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Sour, crunchy, vinegary Polish dill pickles in Poland or FROM Poland (many brands claim to be Polskie ogórki but are from anywhere but Poland & are not the traditional vinegar, garlic, dill, horseradish brine), & with pretty much anything.
www.polishyourkitchen.com/polish-vineg...
#FoodTravelChat
My photo of two polish dill pickles on a white plate, their shadows reflecting their shape
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Homemade candied spiced pecans, so simple, yummy and moreish. Nice little gift too. Totally getting in to the Christmas mode now 🎄

#homemade #baking #cook #recipe #eat #food #christmas #yum #pecan #snack #cuisine #bakers #tasty #delicious
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
The Bachelor
My photo of a painting in a black frame. Joan Miró, "Head of a Man" (1935). A surrealist piece of colours black, yellow, orange, red and brown. Hard to describe as it's abstract and kind of sculptural - organic shapes, what appears to be a big nose, a single eye looking upwards, a tongue (or cigar?) sticking out of a mouthy shape, all mounted on a body with a single shoulder??? Better description here: https://www.artchive.com/artwork/head-of-a-man-joan-miro-1935/#:~:text=The%20artwork%20%E2%80%9CHead%20of%20a,be%20accessible%20to%20the%20public.
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Guys, apparently salting & rinsing eggplant/aubergine before cooking is a hangover from the 50s, 60s & 70s.

👀 ⏳👵

Am I still going to do it? Yes.
#food #foodsky #cooksky
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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For our rivergarden eggplants I don´t need to salt and they are not all "modern", I guess. Bought eggplants I salt, too. In historical sefardic recipes is the process of salting included, I hope to remember correctly 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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I've read on the internet we don't "need" to salt modern species of eggplant but I still absolutely do, do you?
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
Photo of lots of eggplants (aubergines) lined up in a double layer. Image: Pexels
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I often think of the reaction of the first person who threw away their old kernels into the fire to dispose of them.
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
My photo of a white bowl of popcorn I'm about to eat My photo of a white bowl of popcorn I'm about to eat
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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netherfield34.bsky.social
Very brief late evening sunshine, a rainbow, sheep & an emu. A very wet 24 hours in the Shire.💦🌈
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
Legends of the Pharaohs
an open sarcophagus seen from the feet end. The lid is painted with various scenes and hieroglyphs in colours of green, ochre and black. Inside the sarcophagus is the drawn outline of a woman
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Tidying up my photo files and look what I should have bought when I had the chance ...
#food #foodhistory #mrsbeaton #menus 🧵
a photo of the cover of a 1960s version of a book entitled "Mrs Beeton's Cookery and Household Management". The cover depicts at top a mid-century modern sofa and chair, and below the title, a blonde woman measuring out ingredients in a kitchen
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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It was the salmon mousse
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision
a photo of my wall-mounted TV, bathed in an orangey-light from a lamp not in the photo. The television shows a still from Monty Python's Meaning of Life of the Grim Reaper pointing with a skeletal finger
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social
Dandelion is actually good for your lawn. Other cool facts:
#TheOutpost🌻👨‍🌾🌿🌱
Ten Things You Might Not Know About Dandelions www.mofga.org/resources/we...
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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neilbuttery.bsky.social
It's #BritishPuddingDay today. I made a plough pudding today. Its was very, er, British. Sticks to your ribs!

Have you made one recently? Let me know in the comments...
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single s...eed.
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Now a few experimental beans have shot up, need to buy more planters for the rest of the packet. Onward! 🐎
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜 #theoutpost
close up of a leaf of a pea seedling with further seedlings in the back and a tomato plant in a pot overhead view of a growing tomato plant in a pot close up of a small growing mignonette lettuce in a pot a side view of mignonette lettuces growing in a pot. in the background, pea shoots are growing
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Interesting look at the social, economical, and environmental factors affecting the "decline" of the baguette.

"86% of French people admit to eating industrial, sliced white supermarket bread."

#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
The baguette faces an uncertain future. How France is rethinking its iconic loaves | CNN
With the French cutting back on bread and experimenting with longer-lasting loaves, the beloved baguette is under threat.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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"...We had gone back & forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, & I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, & the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold."

-Edna St Vincent Millay,"Recuerdo" #poem poets.org/poem/recuerdo
overhead shot of a mix of green apples and pears in a metal bucket being washed. Image: Pexels overhead view of a basket containing pears of varying degrees of ripeness. Images: Pexels
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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"no flower ever opened
so staunch a white leaf,
no flower ever parted silver
from such rare silver;

O white pear,
your flower-tufts,
thick on the branch,
bring summer and ripe fruits
in their purple hearts."

-H.D. (Hilda Doolittle 1886-1961), from "Pear Tree"
#poem in the public domain
#poetry
photo of a pear tree with a dozen ripening pears on its branches. Image: Pexels photo of a pear tree by a barn structure. Dozens of yellowish pears hang from the branches. Image: Pexels
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM