bob ☕️

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fantasy author of MEMORIES OF MERIBEL and HAWTHORN | unrepentant book accumulator | coffee enthusiast | cassette listener | Irish-y | he/him Profile photo: from the The Old King by Allan Bealy

A big bowl of little cubes of Italian bread, prepared in advance so they are kinda stale for tomorrow when they will be used in a recipe for meatballs.
The recipe says it only takes four minutes to brown one large onion. This is horseshit.
“In Ireland similar notions of a historical Travelling "aristocracy" were linked more with the concept that the Travellers were the remnants of "fallen nobility" who had lost status during the various periods of dispossession associated with the conquest, confiscation, and colonization of Ireland.”
Four jars of fresh-canned peach habanero jam on a kitchen counter pass-through, next to a vase of sunflowers and a glasses with parsley and basil. The stove is in the foreground, with a jar of tasting spoons and salt and pepper shakers visible on the lower right. Is it bucolic and elegant? Maybe.
A pot of smashed-up peaches on the stove, with some vague tiny bits of yellow habanero peppers barely visible among the peach slurry. The heat is on. The show is starting.
A yellow cockatiel on the floor. Being bad.