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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 ✍️
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Website: www.stewedpears.com
Poems: https://stewedpears.com/category/life/ekphrastic-series-based-on-food-art/ 🍐
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Stewed Pears.com 🍐 @stewedpearsdotcom.bsky.social · Aug 13
When life gives you almond cookies, make ice-cream sandwiches.
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
two trays of round cookies with slivered almonds an almond cookie in a white plate that's been broken in half and filled with vanilla ice cream to make a sandwich
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#TheOutpost 🌱🌿👨‍🌾🐝🍀
Pic of my crimson clover last year. Love it!

Great info on clover varieties
Species | Forage Information System | Oregon State University forages.oregonstate.edu/matchclover/...
February 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Olives! Where would Italians and martinis be without them?

theconversation.com/olives-have-...
Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years – far longer than we thought
New research suggests olive trees have been exploited for more than 6,000 years. The first Italian olive oil was produced perhaps 4,000 years ago.
theconversation.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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I have now 73 original poems up on my website! Surprised at what I've accomplished so far simply by showing up.

Here's an early one - Ode to an Unknown Artist (which seems more than apt 🙋‍♀️ 😉 😂)
stewedpears.com/ode-a-poem/
#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #art
Ode - A Poem - Stewed Pears . com
Ode to an Unknown Artist is another in my food-related ekphrasis series
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February 3, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Loud and buzzing, cheap and cheerful. Gyoza, spicy squid starters. Maybe a few drinks.
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
a busy restaurant table with menus overlaid with dishes and glasses. at centre is a white plate with brown paper on it, then four gyoza and a dark sticky sauce in a white bowl a busy restaurant table with menus overlaid with dishes and glasses. at bottom is a black plate with visible calamari rings and tentacles, bean shoots and greens. Behind are wine glasses, rice bowl and another dish
February 3, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Tried my hand at a turkey, cranberry and sage wreath. Innovative decorating, I thought 😂
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜🎄
overhead view of a puff pastry wreath topped with sesame seeds and cut into chunks, decorated with limes, rocket, sage and some suspect looking holly
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Didn't quite have enough fruit but wasn't mad.
#food #fruittart 🍜
view of a stall with containers of blueberries and peaches. Image: Pexels overhead view of a square peach and berry tart with jam and sugar. sits on baking paper on a board
February 3, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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Tell me this isn't calming. Dough is the lava lamp of the kitchen.
#food #foodsky 🍜
February 2, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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While we're at it, the #food area is rife with content aggregators, automated software that takes other people’s content & republishes it. Links have a shortened URL (that is not the original web link) for tracking clicks. Can have a person's name in profile, but it's just software 🫠 #truthonline
February 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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"Whole-almond eaters had an extra 1.5 bowel movements per week compared to the other groups."
Who woulda guessed almonds were the bomb?

Others are greens & seeds:
Swiss chard, watercress, beetroot & dandelion greens, chia & pumpkin seeds.
(So, Mediterranean diet again? 📝)
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
Seven foods you should be eating more of right now
Some common ingredients can have powerfully positive effects on our health. Here are seven worth adding more of to your diet.
www.bbc.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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Oh my gosh I’ve moved into the cozy mysteries stage of life
a man in a tuxedo with a mustache says sacrebleu
Alt: a man (actor who plsys poirot) in a tuxedo with a mustache says sacrebleu
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Bot alert, friends! Bots on the rise.

I remember this type of account from Twitter. (Also just got followed by 3 Carolines -all 3 reported & no longer exist on Bluesky.)

At the left Olivia, on Bluesky. On the right, selection of accounts I blocked on Twitter last year.
So, be careful out there.
a photo of a bluesky profile of someone called Olivia with the profile picture of a young womanl with back turned to the camera. Following hundreds of people but no posts. a screenshot of different twitter BOTS, all with profile pictures of young females with backs to the camera, and names that end in random numbers
February 1, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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Chocolate sponge rolled with milk chocolate buttercream, brushed with rum and Kahlúa syrup, sliced and plated with Biscoff sauce, buttery crumble, and meringue buttons for contrast. A deeply flavored dessert. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe

Click for recipe

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January 31, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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"Thy fingers make early flowers of
all things.
thy hair mostly the hours love:
a smoothness which
sings,saying
(though love be a day)
do not fear,we will go amaying."
-e.e.cummings

from "thy fingers make early flowers of" from 'Tulips & Chimneys'. Public domain.
#poem #tulips
a photo of a field of tulips of varying colours, some yellow, some pink and white varigated, some deep purple, some red
January 31, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic
Quiet drama.
a photo of sunset across a body of water. The sky ranges from deep blue at top left and ranges through lilac to almost white at right. A thin line of strong orange across the body of water is all that's left of the setting sun. In the foreground, a dark fence marks the edge of a cliff top.
January 31, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic
I have a lot of cloud pics on my phone 😁
my photo of a large bank of grey cloud sweeping in from the right hand side across a body of water. Blue sky and white clouds on the bottom left seem to be swallowed up by the storm cloud
January 31, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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#foodayearago

Well the photos are a bit rough around the edges 😜 but these were sweet potato &zucchini/courgette fritters with I didn't know you smoked, salmon & sour cream, and a salad with parmesan crisps.
stewedpears.com/super-sweet-...
#foodsky #cooksky 🍜
on a white plate, an overhead view of three yellow-y fritters with visible zucchini and herbs, topped with slivers of smoked salmon and dollops of sour cream. A simple tomato and rocket/arugula salad at top A close up of a green salad with oak leaves and green apple, topped with crispy parmesan rounds
January 30, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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"Is there is a message from you
hidden here beneath the paint,
and the blue paravent, a quaint
décor you painted in youth ..."

Full poem and details:
stewedpears.com/cezannes-mod...
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #cezanne #art
Cézanne's Model - A Poem - Stewed Pears . com
Cézanne's father had a house in Aix. It's likely that Cézanne painted the blue screen in the background when he was young
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January 30, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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Sardinas en aceite sobre arena de kikos 🌽
Comté #sevilla #tapas #sevillatapas #azahartapas #spain
January 29, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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I wrote about Ugandan street food this week. Kikomando is a new favorite of mine and its history is fascinating!

🍜🍽️ #foodsky

niamhhallam.substack.com/p/kikomando-...
Kikomando and Rolex on the Streets of Uganda
What two dishes reveal about the politics of hunger
niamhhallam.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Candlemas - 2 Feb

"According to one of Provence’s most enduring legends, a boat landed on these shores, on the banks of the Old Port in Marseille, in the first century carrying Mary Magdalene, her sisters...along with Lazarus and other early Christian figures, fleeing persecution"
#food #foodsky
lifesafeast.bsky.social Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 5d
My latest on my Substack just in time for Chandleur - Candlemas…traditional navettes cookies, the orange-perfumed “little boats” from Marseille.

jamieschler.substack.com/p/navettes-d...
Navettes de Marseille
Taste the flavor of my golden navettes! - François Delille, Marseille, 2 février 1881
jamieschler.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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#foodayearago

Nearly a year ago ... celebrating a birthday which is currently fast approaching (not mine!) 🎂

#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
overhead view of a white bowl on a wooden table, and a dish of pasta with (I think) lobster and a saffron bisque A white dish with duck breast, cauliflower puree, and a textured salad of vegetables and fennel fronds and duck jus An overhead view of a dish containing a single beetroot ravioli (the beetroot slices make the exterior of the ravioli), containing goats cheese and with a brown butter, sage and hazelnut sauce. Toasted hazelnuts dot the dish Can't remember what this was, possibly a panna cotta sitting on a nut granita In the middle of a black plate is a creamy coloured round dessert topped with meringue kisses and mango. More kisses around the plate.
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic
A little red drama in the 'burbs.
close up of a bright red geranium part of a bush that is growing over a wall (which can't be seen). In the background, blurred tree and blue sky
January 30, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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#foodayearago
Throwback to last January. Love using roasted vegetables in salads; roasted baby sweet capsicum/pepper salad, and sweet potato in with leaves, bacon and walnuts.
Some prawns cup a simple mango sauce, the way sleeping kittens would if they were prawns.
#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
an overhead view of three salads in various containers. From the back, an oak leaf and avocado salad, centre just out of the oven is a roasted baby sweet capsicum/pepper salad, and at front, a baby spinach, sweet potato, bacon, semi sun-dried tomto and walnut salad an overhead v iew of a white plate on which are the salads from the previous photo plus half a dozen cooked peeled prawns curled together, with the bottom one cupping some mango sauce
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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You say arugula, I say rocket - fascinating look at the language difference that goes back to Roman times

Either way I hate getting a bunch of it on my eggs like seems to have happened in the picture below.

theconversation.com/rocket-or-ar...
Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora
The words used to describe this peppery green are a linguistic fossil record revealing the history of Italian migration.
theconversation.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic
A cloisters of sandy-coloured stone with the open colonnades to the left, a stone corridor in the middle, and on the right a memorial of iron with engraved names that stretches all the way down the cloister. Red poppies are pressed against the name forming, toward the end, a red carpet. A solitary figure of a man is at the far end of the cloister.
January 28, 2026 at 4:35 AM