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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 ✍️
Photos/art
Website: www.stewedpears.com
Poems: https://stewedpears.com/category/life/ekphrastic-series-based-on-food-art/ 🍐
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"Now there's another in my place
Who stands where once I stood.
And watches with an upturned face
And waits for "something good."
And as she hands him spoon and plate
I chuckle low and wish
That I might be allowed to wait
To scrape the frosting dish."

-Edgar Guest, from "The Frosting Dish"
#poem
A lit candle in a white lemon-frosted cupcake that has a sprinkling of something pink on the frosting, in a box that contains other cupcakes you can just see.
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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#WeekWforWindows

Tudor windows and truck windows.
Great Malborough Street, London
Libertys clock on Victorian Tudor style building bridge, looking through down into Kingly Street and a sign for the Clachan pub and to where a truck is parked and some building work is going on
December 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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As I count my blessings, thought I'd share some birthday flowers with you 🌹💕 😀
#bloomscrolling #birthday #flowers
A stunning pink and white arrangement of different flowers, a pink ribbon. The flowers are in a vase on a blurred sideboard. a close up of a tightly wound peach-coloured rose amidst foliage and a dark pink flower to the left.
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Leftovers the next day. Pretty much all the liquid absorbed into the pasta. Well worth an easy cook.
in a white bowl spaghetti with a tomato sauce and just visible meatballs, and some ripped basil. A fork is in the bowl to the right. Recipe made about 25 meatballs.
December 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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#WeekWforWindows
blurred image black and white, can't quite tell what it is but there are slats and a white light in the left central part of image view through slatted window of clouds and a moon behind the clouds, the colours are muted greys. there is no filter on the image, these were the colours. through the slatted window the moon is now starting to emerge through a small break in the night-time cloud a view of a supermoon through a slatted window. the moon appears surrounded by a dove-grey colour, and then the rest of the sky is grey-black clouds
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Can testify that even the teeniest tiniest garden is good for the soul.
#food #garden #foodsky 🍜
Close up between two tomato plant stalks of two yellow tomato buds. A blurred garden in the background. Overhead view of a plant pot with full sized lettuce leaves growing
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Always looking for one pot dishes. Tried this Italian Meatball Soup. First time soaking bread in onion juice👍 Didn't look like the recipe😂 think bc my meatballs were not browned enough & skimped on canned tomato. But it works. Tastes like- spaghetti & meatballs🍜
www.recipetineats.com/italian-meat...
a close up looking down into a handful of dried spaghetti that is fanned out like a flower. Image: Pexels Looking down into a pot of Italian Meatball Soup which is still cooking. Visible are some meatballs, some cherry tomatoes, spaghetti, the passata and stock base and some herbs
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows

Paris. Musée d'Orsay. Does this qualify as a window too?
Taken from the second level of the museum. Looking up toward the domed iron and glass roof in the main hall of the museum, which was originally a Beaux-Arts train station. The roof and windows along the walls are made of thousands of rectangular pieces. On the ground level, people walk down the museum's majestic central avenue amongst white sculpted figures.
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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"Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for ... "

-Naomi Shihab Nye, from "Kindness"

#poetry #poem
close up of a flower bouquet with pink lilies and dusky pink roses close up of a branch of purple duranta flowers and a street blurred in the background
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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#WeekWforWindows

Scotland. Eilean Donan.
A view of a part of Eilean Donan castle - not the usual view from across the bridge. This photo shows both the curved and rectangular stone walls, some featuring what look to be restored battlements (?). A single narrow rectangular window is below these. A further two windows below it. In the foreground, is sloping land and grass and further stone.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Three sexiest words in a long-term marriage?

"I'll organise dinner."

#food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜
a close up of chicken kebabs on a bbq a close up of a white plate on which there is charred corn and asparagus. In the background, a mysterious gloved hand throws another shrimp on the barbie. Chicken kebabs at the far end.
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Paris
A photo taken across the river Seine that shows Notre Dame's gothic architecture and arched and circular windows. On the right rows of tidy, identical Haussmann architecture apartments with windows of identical proportions and placing View from one of the towers of Notre Dame across to the Eiffel Tower, and a city of apartments and many, many, rectangular windows
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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🎶Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite greens 🎶

Roasted brussels sprouts, peas and dill.
#food #foodsky #cooksky #
Overhead image of brussels sprouts in a silver colander being rinsed with a line of water. Image: Pexels Close up of quite a soupy risotto with visible peas and some bacon bits, topped with a line of caramelised and halved brussels sprouts, crispy prosciutto and sprigs of dill
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Great Wall of China
My pic taken through a window built into the stone fortification along the Great Wall of China. Looking out onto the mountains, mist and the Wall in the distance
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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#WeekVforVowels

Armour

#toweroflondon
a selection of armour for men with helmets and breastplates mounted on poles to make it looks like a ghostly army. A metal horse to the left and behind
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Walk & coffee morning ritual. We have a leaf and a ... budding flower, or phoenix rising from the ashes??
#coffee #food #foodsky 🍜
overhead view of a table and two coffees, a flat white in a white cup, and a strong latte in a glass. Saucers and spoons. The latte art is leaf-like in both overhead view of a strong latte decorated with latte art in a glass. A saucer and spoon.
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels

Ironwork
#Barcelona
a photo taken from an iron juliette balcony down a street in Barcelona's Gothic quarter showing rows of almost identical apartment blocks, each window with its own iron balcony
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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#HappyThanksgiving to all currently celebrating!

#food 🍜
Poultry: Roast Fowls, Roast Goose, Roast Turkey with Savoury Balls, Roast Duck, and Boiled Chicken from "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management". Digitally enhanced from Rawpixels' 1923 edition. Image in the public domain. An illustration of cooked dishes on platters, from top to bottom: roast fowls, roast goose, roast turkey with savoury balls, roast duck, boiled chicken Illustration of cooked vegetables arranged on platters. Asparagus, Spinach with Eggs, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, Leeks, Parsnips, New Peas, French Beans, Cabbage, and Braised Onions. From "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management". Digitally enhanced from Rawpixel's 1923 edition. Image in the public domain.
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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#WeekVforVowels

Architecture
Extraordinary
Imaginative
Organic forms
Unique
A photo taken looking up at the ceiling of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Columns like trees lead up to sunburst patterns which are the "canopy" of the forest-like effect Gaudi wanted to create. Stained glassed arches to the right.
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I now pronounce you
Umber
and
Orange
my pic of a second hand store shelf of mismatched vases with three in the front blurred, and two large vases that look quite retro in colours of umber, orange, yellow and red. One is more an olive jar shape and the other is a smoother more traditional vase
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Orange
my pic looking down into a centres of a mass of orange tulips, you can see their leaves and the earth
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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A for Alps
E for Eiger (in the general vicinity)
A view of the First Cliff Walk above Grindelwald in Switzerland. A metal walkway curves out above green valleys. A man looks out at snow-covered peaks, almost obscured by cloud.
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Red currant (1827) and blackberry (1879).
#botanicalillustration #food #foodsky #art
A botanical illustration of a red currant bruanch with several clusters of currants and leaves. A butterly at the top. Writing below. Red Currant from Choix des plus belles fleurs (1827) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Original from Biodiversity Heritage Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Image in the public domain a botanical illustration of a blackcurrant branch showing leaves, berries and some blossom. Writing below Blackberry (Rubus Fruticosus Hyb Kittaniny) chromolithograph plates by Abraham Jacobus Wendel. Digitally enhanced from rawpixel's 1879 edition plates of Nederlandsche flora en pomona. Image in the public domain
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Nasturtium (1896) and a much older plum (1808-1835)
#botanicalillustration #food #foodsky #art
A botanical illustration of a nasturtium plant showing flowers, leaves, seed pods and a cross section of the flower Capucine (nasturtium) from La Plante et ses Applications ornementales (1896) illustrated by Maurice Pillard Verneuil. Original from the The New York Public Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. A botanical illustration of a branch with two clusters of plums, some ripening, some still green; a cross section of a plum and a blossom. Traité des arbres fruitiers: Prune bifère (1808–1835) print in high resolution by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. Original from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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"How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs."
-Robert Frost, from "Putting in the Seed"
#poem #gardening #bean
A close up of two bean seedlings that look as if they are facing one another, one has a hate of leaves and two outstretched arms, an dthe other has the brown face of a dog and floppy ears 24 hours later all the seedlings are sprouting wildly upwards, a close up of a dozen in a pot with poles
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM