New favourite example of structural ambiguity

No dogs on the bed, ever.

Anecdolts

Mediterranean lifestyle still holding up

Just to reiterate my view, having studied the history of the BBC for over a quarter of a century - as well as having worked there for several years as a journalist: Robbie Gibb should have absolutely no role whatsoever in the governance of the Corporation.

After all the rain and thunder yesterday, she is just so happy to be outside.

Hanging out with my girl.

It's been thunder and lightning and rain here all day today and this puppy has zero interest in going outside. Excellent lap warmer though.

Discussion of lots of people being on long term sick leave since 2019 without mentioning covid is like talking about wwii without mentioning bombs or guns. And yet....

These LNER staff were incredibly brave.

5.30 and it's already getting dark. Furious.

I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Made braised pigs' cheeks with toasted hazelnuts and roast figs and I'm not sad about it.

Came home and I wasn't the only one keen to get in the house..

Chrissake. Impossible to underestimate a certain type, isn't it?

Made coq au vin en croûte. The criminality. Sunday lunch of love.

God the men creeping into chat requests on this app.

I love this book by @lickedspoon.bsky.social! Wonderful recipes and so brilliantly written.👇

No dogs on the bed, ever.

This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Gruyère and Anchovy Puffs from the wonderful Notes from a Small Kitchen Island: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of the Home by @lickedspoon.bsky.social: www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

I've compiled a roundup of what to eat, watch and read for my newsletter, including a selection of cookbooks due to be published this autumn! I'd love you to subscribe. tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io/what-to-read...

If you'd like to read or hear me talking about the tyranny of simplicity in the kitchen, the link is here. www.scribehound.com/food/joy-of-...

I'd use BlueSky a lot more if the Post/Reply button didn't disappear for days at a time. Does anyone else have this?

I need Ian Wright cam please.

Who is the girl standing next to Prince William on the podium? ⚽

Yes! ⚽⚽⚽

For this month’s Scribehound piece I wrote about the dying municipal markets in Spain, the very much alive one in @lickedspoon.bsky.social ‘s village and the declining one near me. join.scribehound.com/food?ref=sha...

V pleased with this. V pleased indeed.

I'm about to have loads of people to stay so in my free post today, I wrote about WASHING UP: THE RULES. Trigger warning, there are lots of them. Plus a recipe for my favourite tomato salad of the summer. open.substack.com/pub/deboraro...

Absolutely all of this.

A fun game for the afternoon. Complete the headline.

Something for the weekend...

In today's free newsletter, I share a recipe for a perfect hot-weather lunch. I also try something new - I've recorded it, so if you prefer to listen than to read, you'll have the great pleasure of hearing me swear in English and in French. Impossible to resist, I know.

Brilliant

In today's free newsletter, I share a recipe for a perfect hot-weather lunch. I also try something new - I've recorded it, so if you prefer to listen than to read, you'll have the great pleasure of hearing me swear in English and in French. Impossible to resist, I know.

Also, this is not our cat.

Home. Marseillan is furnace-hot and the first sunflowers are out in the garden. Love you, London, thanks for throwing your arms around me once again. See you soon. 🇫🇷🇬🇧

He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

This week I wrote about an aubergine and tomato stew from Béziers that I'm going to make all summer long. In your face, ratatouille. Also, the glory that is food message board aggro. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/food-messa...

This week I wrote about an aubergine and tomato stew from Béziers that I'm going to make all summer long. In your face, ratatouille. Also, the glory that is food message board aggro. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/food-messa...

Made a tarte flambée for tea, so I did.

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is the entire thing a weird troll? fascinated by some of the choices on display there - this one is ideal if the message you want to send is "I fucked the groom, and I'll try to do it again tonight if you're not careful"

If you're looking for something to go with your weekend roast or barbecue...

What do you do when your heart is in the South of France but your tomatoes are from Asda? I made these tomates à la Provençale - easy and good. Recipe here (free). deborarobertson.substack.com/p/when-bad-t...

Loving the comedy stylings of all the pundits crowing they predicted Trump and Musk would fall out. Babes, these days I mostly hang out at the greengrocer's and the Marine Bar and I could have told you that.

I walked down the street I worked on 30 years ago and bloody hell, time is slippery isn't it? Wrote about it here, plus a recipe for chicken provençal. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/once-upon-...

I walked down the street I worked on 30 years ago and bloody hell, time is slippery isn't it? Wrote about it here, plus a recipe for chicken provençal. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/once-upon-...

Made a bottom-of-the-salad-drawer soup - cabbage and leeks, with lardons, the end of a pot of fromage blanc, some chives from the garden, very simple and surprisingly good. Free recipe in my newsletter. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/gotta-use-...

I'd post a lot more here on this wretched app if the post and reply buttons didn't vanish half the time, so that's a blessing for you all.