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Lemon Curd Standing Proud

Posted in Recipes on June 14, 2007 | 10 Comments »

Lemon Curd Originally uploaded by wjharrison77. Earlier in the week I read a piece in The Guardian entitled “The Sausage Division” (link here). The writer was discussing (amongst a bewildering amount of other issues) the extreme variation in general diet and attitudes towards food in the UK. The article made for very depressing but entirely [...]

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Spring Rolls (& a small complaint)

Posted in Recipes on June 13, 2007 | 21 Comments »

food 308Originally uploaded by wjharrison77. Inverness is a lovely place to live. It’s small enough to feel friendly yet big enough to have privacy. It offers a reasonable amount of restaurants and shops but is only three hours away from the major Scottish cities when these simply won’t do. And, of course, we are surrounded [...]

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Highland Games & Apple Green Tea

Posted in Recipes, teaching, Uncategorized on June 11, 2007 | 9 Comments »

Food 051 Oh, I’m so lazy. I have done absolutely nothing since arriving home from school. Worst thing is that it’s a lovely day outside. ____________________________________ Hee hee. Writing that last paragraph made me feel so idle I took my bike out of the garage and went for a short cycle. Extremely glad I did [...]

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Aromatic Crispy Duck

Posted in Recipes, teaching on June 10, 2007 | 28 Comments »

Crispt duck Originally uploaded by wjharrison77. It’s Sunday evening and around this time I usually start to think about the school week ahead. Tonight is no exception. First thing tomorrow I’ll be teaching my seniors. Really looking forward to it as we are reading a favourite of mine, MacBeth. Thankfully the class are enjoying it [...]

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Genna’s Lodge Pie

Posted in Recipes, Uncategorized on June 8, 2007 | 11 Comments »

Lodge Pie Originally uploaded by wjharrison77. I have had an assortment of tradesmen in my house over the last few days as I’m giving my bathroom a face lift. As they are plumbing and rewiring bits and bobs I’ve been pottering around trying not to look lazy. It’s an odd thing. I feel terribly guilty [...]

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Sprouting Pride

Posted in Uncategorized on June 6, 2007 | 11 Comments »

Garden Originally uploaded by wjharrison77. Last December I was in charge of cooking Christmas dinner. I was rather nervous about asking my mother if I could do so worrying that she might be insulted, feel ousted or such like. Her response, however, was a unrestrained “WOO HOO!” followed by a marathon session on the phone [...]

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Travel Writing, Tcheuchters & Chicken with Tomatoes

Posted in Recipes, teaching on June 5, 2007 | 9 Comments »

Chicken Originally uploaded by wjharrison77. My seniors were doing some peer assessment of their travel writing today. They just started to write yesterday after a week of reading articles by, among others, Paul Theroux (my favourite) and Bill Bryson (far from a favourite). The class loved Bryson and hated Theroux. Boooo, I said. Booooooo! After [...]

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A Taste of Grampian

Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Just back from a fantastic weekend in Aberdeenshire (my home turf). Spent the majority of my time in puppy heaven but took some time off my doggy climbing frame duties to go to a food festival – “A Taste Of Grampian”. It was mobbed! Wonderful to see so many people interested in finding out about and sampling [...]

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