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Dawna Read
@riverofcrows.bsky.social
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I had some puff pastry to use up after making sausage rolls for a party, so I used it to wrap up some salmon filets for dinner. Yoghurt sauce not shown. 🍜🍽️
A plate with a golden brown puff pastry parcel with a braided top, and some roasted vegetables in the foreground (sweet potato and beet chunks, and halved Brussels sprouts).
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Iggy has been watching too many cooking shows, apparently. Or he's trying to make beer?

Anyway, the strand of freshly chomped barley grass definitely elevates the water bowl.
A white cat is sitt on a black and white checkerboard floor next to a foot, looking up. In front of him is a faux-birch placemat holding an empty food bowl and a full water bowl with a strand of barley grass draped over the edge like a garnish.
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The real Iggy was the real star of the show, though! Slightly less sweet, but not by much.
Iggy, a mostly white cat with a grey tail and markings is curled up into a ball next to my leg on the sofa.
December 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I'm not winning any awards for cookie decorating any time soon, but my Sugar Iggies were still pretty popular at tonight's gathering. 🍪🍽️
A plate of sugar cookies. On the left are cookies shaped and decorated as a white cat with a grey tail and markings and yellow eyes, and on the right are Christmas trees.
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I don't know how they do it - double fry? TRIPLE? Anyway, the sweet potato fries are super crispy and delicious. 🍠🍜
A smash burger with cheese in a basket lined with faux newspaper liner along with a side of mixed sweet potato and regular potato fries, on a wooden table, with a glass of water in the background.
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I thought the wreath needed some birds.
An evergreen wreath on a sage green door. There are three feathered bird ornaments positioned around the boughs. The birds are mostly shades of brown, cream, and russet, and are each different from each other.
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Is this enough guanciale for the carbonara? 😅

#Foodsky
A bowl of spaghetti carbonara absolutely smothered in crispy guanciale. From a local restaurant.
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Let's goooooo already!
A mostly white cat with a grey exclamation mark on his head is sitting nicely in a grey tweed cat carrier next to an upright harmonium. There is a fuzzy kick toy next to the carrier, and a red rug in front. In the background, through a doorway, a kitchen light is on.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Leftover phyllo dough? Hot tip: wrap it around yesterday's leftovers and call it lunch.

This may look like a chimichanga, but is really just leftover chili.

🍜🍽️ #GoodLunch
A large, golden phyllo pastry topped with a squiggle of hot sauce, beside a dollop of coleslaw, all on a yellow plate.
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Dutch baby breakfast for the win! This one gained good height and colour, I think, and has a delicious topping of diced Polish sausage (Krucha z galaretką), diced cheddar, and green onion. 🍽️🍜
A dutch baby oven pancake, fresh out of the oven, still in its skillet. The sides are high and beautifully dark golden brown, and you can see the toppings scattered over the surface: cheese, diced Polish sausage, and green onions. In the background, two plates are warming on the stovetop.
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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The lighting makes this sauce look a lot orangier than it was on the table, but here is a pan of Kefta mkaouara simmering away. Just need to let the egg whites cook a bit more.
🍽️🍜
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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My chicken pot pie filling has broken out of containment. 🍜🍽️
A chicken pot pie in a square Corning ware baking dish on a blackened metal tray. It has just come out of the oven. The topping for the pie is biscuit, cut into four pieces fitted onto the top of the dish. The filling has bubbled up in between the biscuits, pushing them apart a little, and over the edges of the dish onto the tray below.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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You hear a lot about smol beans, but today is all about the lorge beans.

This is prep for tonight's Fabada Asturiana. 🫘🍲🍜🍽️
A left hand holding three large, long white beans over a big purple bowl full of more beans and soaking water.
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Fancy nail colour for a holiday event for work.

The name on the bottle is Paris to Ibiza, but I'm calling it I Am Not A Robot (Captcha for short). 💅
A left hand with long fingernails painted silver, and a silver wedding band.
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Big snowy day today, which was perfect for the cheese fondue dinner I had planned.
🍽️🍜🫕
A vintage copper fondue pot, half full of cheese fondue, with a meatball on a fork above it, slowly dripping cheese back into the pot.
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Reskeet with a time you looked cool
A woman lounging on an elegant sofa in front of a wide window with a red and gold drape. She is wearing glasses, and a tight, sleeveless chalk stripe dress in navy; her hair is up and her feet are scandalously up on the sofa cushion.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Sunday morning breakfast biscuit. Working on my sausage patty game. This is enormous, an absolute beast. Going to be full for a while!
🍜🥚🧀🍽️
A monstrously large breakfast biscuit held over a plate. The savory, flaky biscuit is filled with cheese, a thin sausage patty, and a folded egg. There is a tablecloth featuring birds, branches, and berries beneath.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Well, this went wildly sideways
Weekly Menu: Nov 9, 2025 Sunday — Rimmad fläsklägg, roasted apple, scalloped potatoes, corn with butter and thyme Monday — 'Nduja and white beans, ciabatta, green salad Tuesday — Chinese curry beef, steamed rice, broccoli, bell pepper & onion stirfy Wednesday — leftover scalloped potatoes, köttbullar med whiskysås, asparagus Thursday — Gåsamiddag BOUCHON - cancelled due to medical emergency Friday — Beef Chili with kidney beans, biscuits Saturday — Chili dogs with purple coleslaw
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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My responsibility for the rest of the evening has been communicated.
A mostly white cat with a grey tail and markings is lying on his back on a curly sort of position. My left hand is resting on his belly.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Cheese and cracker. 🧀

St. Agur on a Tuc cracker, with green tomato chutney (made by @palleh.bsky.social).
A hand holding a Tuc cracker thickly spread with blue cheese and topped with a dollop of chutney.
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Meal plan for the week. Things might move around, except Thursday, which is a restaurant booking, but I think the odds are good on this being the lineup.

🍜🍽️ #Foodsky #MealPlanning
Weekly Menu: Nov 9, 2025 Sunday — Cured pork leg, roasted apple, scalloped potatoes, corn with butter and thyme Monday — 'Nduja and white beans, baguette, green salad Tuesday — Chinese curry beef, steamed rice, broccoli, bell pepper & onion stirfy Wednesday — Skillet Lasagna Thursday — Gåsmiddag BOUCHON Friday — Maultaschen in broth with carrot coins Saturday — tbd
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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It begins...
Two rectangular fruitcakes in foil-lined pans have just been placed in an oven.
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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...and so it was.
A serving of casserole of squash, meat and potato in a wide, shallow, teal coloured bowl, with a fork alongside.
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Ever since I learned the fast, no fuss, darn near foolproof way to make a small batch of hollandaise, eggs benedict has become an easy option, limited only by my arteries.

This uses up the last of the sage and cheddar biscuits very nicely. 🍜🍽️🍳🥚
Eggs benedict on biscuit halves on a yellow daisy plate.
October 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Soup Week, day 6: Borsch(t).

I have several different recipes for this, depending on how it's to be eaten. I even have a golden version. This one uses beef broth but no pieces of meat.

🍜🍽️ #SoupClub
A nice wide china bowl full of ruby red borscht, topped with a dollop of sour cream and. To one side is a platter of perogies with fried onions and sausage pieces.
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM