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Picota cherry season in Spain plus a recipe for cherry gazpacho

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MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.

Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.

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Bottarga and lemon zest spaghetti. Quickest pasta dish in the west. Bottarga is presser, cured,smoked, grey mullet fish eggs, and is a big deal in Sardinia. Also good on hot buttered toast. Recipe on the blog. You can buy bottarga from @delicatezzauk olive oil from @pomoragoodfood #spaghetti #supperclub #bottarga #sardinia #travelandfood #recipe #pescetarian #italianfood #quickpastameal #quickpasta #readyinminutes #foodblogger #selfcatering

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I’m staying at littlecote house on the Berkshire/Wiltshire border in #England. It’s the house where #HenryVIII met #janeSeymour for secret trysts while he was launching a case for treachery and adultery against #AnneBoleyn The gardens and house are beautiful. This is part of my parents 💍 wedding anniversary celebrations #traveluk #history #englishhistory #tudor

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Saffron, ricotta and tomato ravioli. I love the combination of tomato 🍅 and saffron- I often put a pinch in my tomato sauce. The Sardinian dishes I like have saffron or mint, pecorino or bottarga shaved finely upon pasta. I made this at my self catering apartment where I stayed courtesy of @essentialitaly. It was a little haven while I explored the northern emerald coast. On a clear day you can see the southern part of Corsica. This little house overlooking a bay, with the gentle sound of lapping waves, was perfect for the solo female traveller, meaning I could cook for myself. This is not only cheaper but a real pleasure- shopping for Sardinian ingredients and using them. The furniture was chic- no 80s dodgy furniture. Good equipment in the kitchen and relief- a gas hob. #presstrip #sardinia #portorafael #femaletraveller #solotravel #selfcatering #italy #localdishes #supperclub #cooking #acookstravels

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A writer’s view, the top floor room, in #bosa #sardinia at the hotel @cortefioritabosa perched over the inlet from the sea, the boats, the green hills, the coloured houses. Im researching Sardinian #recipes which I hope to recreate at home. This town is small, quiet and typical. I recommend a visit. Nearest #airport is Alghero which flies from Luton. Last night I tried Malvasia de Bosa #wine- slightly sweet and very delicious. #travel #cook #blogger #foodietraveller #solotraveller #womensolo

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Two years ago I wrote about Italian tomatoes for the @hamandhigh south of Naples. This year I have visited Naples, basilicata, and now Sardinia. Every region is so individual, has its own foods and wines, history, art and archeology. I want to discover it all! Nb Sardinians will tell you that they are not Italian, in fact there is an independence movement, but less violent than Corsica. 🍅🗺 #aeroportoalghero
#voladaalghero
#myAHOmoments
#AHOevents
#sardinia2love #pomodoro #tomatoes #september #italy #travelandfood #igfood #solotravel #foodjournalist #vegetarian

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The piazza civica in #Alghero has beautifully whimsical street decorations, #birdcages designed by @antoniomarrasofficial. I learnt today on a tour guided by @davidebeccu that Alghero is very Catalan and aragonese. The street signs are in Catalan (albeit an old dialect) and Italian. Much of the architecture is aragonese. Catalan’s independence has been recognised by Sardinia and there is a consulat. The coat of arms is aragonese and Sardinian. They serve paella as well as spaghetti vongole with #bottarga and fregola with pecorino. Last night we drank myrtle liqueur. Today we saw the fairy houses- underground tombs built by the #neolithic Age #Nuragic civilisation, decorated in #ochre with carvings of bull horns 🗺 #aeroportoalghero
#voladaalghero
#myAHOmoments
#AHOevents
#sardinia2love
#archeolover
#archeology #travel #igtravel #sardinia #streetart #archeoaatrology

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The steps to #neptunesgrotto in northern #Sardinia near #alghero. We were going to get a boat but the sea was too rough and the mistral wind was blowing. We could have walked the 654 steps. (Glad we didn’t- been up since 4am.) anyway this country is stunning. We have a passionate guide @davidebeccu who knows EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING. 🗺⚓️ #aeroportoalghero
#voladaalghero
#myAHOmoments
#AHOevents
#sardinia2love
#archeolover
#archeology
#travel #europe #sardinia #presstrip

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Greek food packaging. This is tomato purée in cardboard cones. I like the brightness and clarity, it’s nostalgic and utilitarian. Plus it’s eco. Sell more food I’m waxed cardboard? I seem to remember school milk looked like this- before thatcher the milk snatcher! I love food packaging design and often buy food just on that basis. Happily this was also intense vibrant probably sun dried tomato paste. 🍅 #tomato #tomatopaste #greekfood #foodpackaging #graphicdesign #design #ecofriendly #eco #cardboard #kassandrapeninsula🏝 #food #supperclub

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Sunset at the #Sani resort in #kassandrapeninsula is elegant. It costs £300 a night. If you wanted to splash out. On a worlds top 20 hotel, this is where you’d go. #luxuryhotel #kassandra #travel #beautifulgardens #igtravel #ighotels #sunset #sundown #greece #northerngreece #greatcocktails

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A frappé, a Greek iced coffee. You can have it without milk & sugar but it’s so much nicer with. I am on the #Kassandra peninsular in northern #Greece. Turquoise sea & white sandy beaches, a full moon 🌕 in Pisces last night. Salads for breakfast, dinner and tea #healthy but startlingly sweet pastries for afters. I’m managing to keep up my wild swimming every day but I’m not sure how far I’m swimming. It’s certainly harder to swim long distances in choppy sea. I have a frappé before I start- a caffeine boost. #travel #drink #coffee #wildswimming #openwater #@outdoorswimmingclub #igswimming

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From one peninsula to the other. It’s 26 km to swim. Our PR blonde Maria (there are 4 Maria’s in total) has swum it (she says she was drunk on Campari) with the aid of a support boat. It took her 8 hours. There is an annual race in July the Toronios gulf swimming competition. I want to do it! Anyway in the meantime look at those blues! ⚓️💙#travel #igtravel #greece #peninsula #kassandra #seaside #swimming #aquaticmarathon #toronios #gulf #longdistance

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Umbrellas on the #Kassandra peninsula. The water is still and warm, so clear you can see every wrinkle in your hand. This part of #Greece, #macedonia, used to be inhabited by giants, according to the myths. They also have giant olives, #haldiki, the size of eggs, pale green eggs. Although it isn’t an island, it feels like it. Young Greek children are blasé about the sea, they see it every day. The variety of blues is infinite. I swam a kilometre today in the sea🐟🗺⛱ #travel #food #presstrip #inlandgreece #supperclub #sea #beach #umbrellas #swimming #wildswimming

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Staircase at the apple tree pub in clerkenwell. It’s a vegan pub in the city. #rainbow #pubs #vegan #clerkenwell #london #interiors #staircase #supperclub #uk #overtherainbow #msmarmitelover #londoner

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Melon. Pretty picture. Food. Lifestyle. Bollocks. In reality I’m sitting in bed eating quality street. On season 3 of queen of the south on Netflix. #backtolondon #larentree #reallife

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Waxy yellow and red french potatoes baked whole on coarse salt then filled with persillade butter. Another #saltrecipe in the south of #France. 🥔🇫🇷#holidays #vacation #vegetarian #potatorecipes #labaleine #provence

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Pink salt basin at la baleine salt flats at Aigues-Mortes, south of France. This is la fleur de sel, the flower of the salt, the creme de la creme of sea salt. It’s 13% saltier, with more magnesium, potassium and other minerals. I scooped some of it into a bag and have been using it all summer to ‘dress’ my food. It’s too precious and expensive to use in cooking. The colour is the result of a special algae called an extremeophile- that can exist in high salt environments. This algae also turns the Camargue flamingoes pink. You can visit the salt basins Les salines d’aigues-mortes as a member of the public. See the salt mountain, the flamingoes, the pink lakes, the museum. More info in my blog post: https://msmarmitelover.com/2019/08/la-baleine-sea-salt.html (why won’t instagram allow links ffs) 🧂🏖 #seasalt #labaleine #fleurdesel #pinksalt #southoffrance #aiguesmortes #healthyeating #minerals #foodietravel #blogger #food #travel #saltrecipes

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Fish stuffed with preserved lemon 🍋 and baked in salt. Best to use a not too bony white fish for this such as bream or bass. My full blog post on the thorny subject of salt is up now plus 3 salt based recipes. Of course preserved lemons is also a salt based recipe. I make them every year. Take a clean jar. Cut a deep cross into the top of the lemons, stuff with coarse salt, ham as many lemons you can into the jar, fill with salt water and more salt. Close and leave for 6 weeks, checking regularly that the water still covers the lemons. If the level has dropped, top it up. See the salt post about my visit to @labaleinefr salt pans at Msmarmitelover.com up now. I believe in salt! #salt #seasalt #selgris #fleurdesel #labaleine #france #pescetarian #fishrecipe #saltrecipe #southoffrance #cooking #ovenbaked #preservedlemons #blogger #chef #iphoneography

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Full moon over the bay of st tropez. The weather will change after the actual full moon on Thursday. More storms and rain. Been working on a mahoosive blog post on la baleine salt from near here. #southoffrance #travel #moonlitnights

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Lazy dinner from fridge & larder: black squid ink spaghetti with creme fraiche & trout eggs. Cook pasta, swirl with butter, add cream, add eggs, serve hot with black pepper. Visually stunning- slightly sci-fi- and tasty. 15 minutes start to finish. Hot weather cooking. Trying to work poolside but in honesty not succeeding much. Brain fried. Good intentions- the intellectual food books I was going to read, the book proposal I was going to write, the blog post catch up, all gone out of the window. Am lazy cow. It’s official. Sorry not sorry. Can only swim and drink rosé. #noproductivity #southoffrancefantasy #southoffrance #hotweather #vacation #holibobs #holiday #cotedazure #brainfried #provence #var #grimaud #villalife #cantbearsed #food #pasta #pescetarian

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#slideshow 👉🏻Summer tables in Var, Provence, Côte d’Azur. Apparently I’m being very trendy because I’m on an #intergenerationalholiday with grandparents, siblings, kids. Every mealtime is a smorgasbord of seasonal Mediterranean salads and dishes. We have proper lunches and dinners where we all sit together. We all cook. I’m doing 60 lengths of #swimming a day. I feel so healthy. I’ve been regularly making caponata, a Sicilian ratatouille which tbh I prefer; last night I made a spinach, nutmeg and maroilles cheese tart, a hearts of palm & kaffir lime salad. I love to cook for other people. I’m using my mothers crockery and table mats. I’m not a table mat or coaster person. Last night we had a row about a tablecloth. “It’s wipe down” says my mum. “I don’t care” I growl. #france #tablescapes #àtable #homecooking #southoffrance #food #chef #familycooking #travel

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