Debora Robertson

@lickedspoon.bsky.social

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I write about food, mostly. Did I tell you I live in France now? deborarobertson.substack.com

A box of Fortnum & Mason marrons glacés.
A house illuminated with Christmas lights.
A small brown dog covered in soil.
A white chopping board on a wooden table. Reduced chicken stock has been cut into square - it looks like fudge.
A round "cake" of potatoes and cheese wrapped in bacon, one slice cut out to reveal the interior.
A view from a balcony over a small French port.
A brown puppy on a red sofa, furious with the world.
A brown puppy in a grey fluffy dog bed, lying on her back with her legs in the air like she just don't care. Cos she don't.
A brown puppy in a fluffy grey bed clutching an orange ball for dear life.
A fluffy brown puppy, most definitely on a bed.
A brown puppy running around a garden.
A fluffy puppy on a sofa.
A little black and white cat on a garden chair, with me stroking the little thing. A few weeks ago, she wouldn't let me within metres of her.
A bright yellow sunflower with lush green leaves against a cream wall.
French "pizza" with creme fraîche, lardons, onion, on a wooden chopping board.
A picture of chicken casserole with peppers and basil in a blue enamel pot.
A cappuccino in a cream cup on an orange saucer
Chicken casserole with peppers, courgettes, tomatoes and basil in a blue enamel pot.
A young black and white cat on a step eating out of a white enamel bowl.
A grey cat on a table, lying on a white tablecloth, in a sunny room in front of a pink sofa.
A slice of cake on a glass plate with some creme fraîche, whole cake in the background, with a cream coloured mug of black coffee.
A lamb stew with spring vegetables in a cream coloured pot.
Pictures of a tomato tart, whole and one with a big slice cut out of it.
Tomato tart with a big slice cut out of it on a blue and white cloth.
Driving along a country lane in South West France. The sky is blue and the road is shaded on both sides by plane trees.
A little white bone china jug on a pink and white striped tablecloth, filled with flowers
A pale pink rose against its dark green gross leaves, climbing up a metal arch.
A strawberry, bitten into, bright scarlet inside.
Two whole mackerel on an orange plate, on a pink and white striped tablecloth.
A market square in France. People standing at a roast chicken stall in the shade of an olive tree.
Carrot soup in a green bowl.
A Paris-Brest on a blue and white plate on a rumpled brown and white toile de jouy bedspread.
A photograph of Pope Leo XIV as the President of the United States sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office.
Chicken, rice and braised courgettes on a blue and white plate.
A white plate with a scalloped blue edge and a blue D monogram in the centre.
A salad of roasted peppers, boiled eggs, tuna and capers with lots of herbs.
A hedgehog, wandering about in a garden, snuffling for bugs.
A bud vase with thee stems of lily of the valley and a large green leaf.
Long red radishes on a blue and white plate, with a mound of butter and a heap of flaky sea salt.
A table filled with vegetables and fruit - including radishes, leeks, garlic, celery, courgettes, tomatoes and strawberries.
A house in a French village. The walls are pale pink and the wrought iron on the windows and doors is pale blue. A tree shades the front door.
A apricot-coloured rose in full bloom, with more buds to coe, against glossy green leaves. I think it's Dannahue, a newish shrub rose from David Austin.