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Dorothy Porker

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Post-colonial mut gentrifying the French country side • Wrote and shot a cookbook once • Bylines and photography in some places too • Fibromyalgia

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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 14h
Finally time and weather to make a chai latte base again www.dorothy-porker.com/avoid-starbu... 🍽
Bunch of crushed dried spices in a large pot.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 05/10/2026
My parents brought me chili peppers 🥰
Around a kilo of chilipeppers.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 05/10/2026
Parental units are visiting and some friends were kind enough to drive them down so I made them pumpkin sage lasagna
Pumpkin sage lasagna.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 04/10/2026
Gisteren een vriendin na lang aandringen erheen gekregen en die gaf mij helemaal gelijk
Screenshot van Dorothy Porker berichten in DM die dokter de jaren heen roept dat haar vriendin naar Reyna moet
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 03/10/2026
Magnificent Vinted find, a Portugese ceramic bullish head
Nicely weathered large ceramic black bull's head.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 19/09/2026
Happy pupper.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 16/09/2026
And my friend who continued saw whole nutmeg!
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 16/09/2026
Made it to the supermarket and back, that's enough for now. Got some Yakult too
Chaotic Indonesian supermarket haul.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 16/09/2026
Good soup. Sop or sup ayam jagung (chicken corn soup, with an egg beaten in at the end). A local specialty. Let's see if it stays down
Bowl of soup.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 15/09/2026
Lost a week to travel delays and illness, lets hope this view cures me before I have to get back on the long haul flight
Sunset over the Celebes sea.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 13/09/2026
Beautiful Karbau bull at the hotel today
An all white blue eyed karbau bull in front of some Toraja buildings.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 11/09/2026
Very midcentury modern (and barely updated since) inside (complimentary). Obsessing over my defunct bedside table/ radio
A bedside table with radio function built-in.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 11/09/2026
Hotel number something
Toraja style bungalows at night.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 11/09/2026
Bootje varen vanochtend
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 09/09/2026
Lots of diesel troubles here, people buy and then resell to industries who should pay more, leaving regular users to hunt and queue for diesel for hours
Truck with a Palestinian flag painted on the back.Truck filled with watermelons and a Palestinian flag painted on the back.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 09/09/2026
Divine lunch now
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 09/09/2026
Hotel view. Little city tour if Makassar this morning and then on to Bira
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 08/09/2026
This book gives you a nice overview of Indonesian history including how the islands came to be/ are on the ring of fire
Cover of A Brief History of Indonesia.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 07/09/2026
I might just pay for longstay myself cause this is my bed
Big fuck you bed.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 07/09/2026
So night time road works are fun to see here
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 06/09/2026
Had very chicken rendang ayam though
Plate of chicken rendang with rice and other deliciousness.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 01/09/2026
Also me, through the years
Passport photos from toddler to probably 20.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 01/09/2026
Still cleaning up photos, spot Noedel
Overgrown garden with spent artichokes and a calico cat somewhere in there looking weary.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 29/08/2026
Ik dacht aan zoiets
Ik met een kraag van pitas ala rijke mensen vroeger.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 29/08/2026
Deze in het paars is het geworden, mede omdat het hele cameravak eruit kan en dan is het zowaar een gewone tas (en veel vakjes voor ook je niet fotografie spullen)
Camera sling tas van Gura Gear in groen met camera insert erbij.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 28/08/2026
Lots of people outside of the gates enjoying the concert too
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 28/08/2026
Didn't make the full concert (too crowded, chronic illnesses playing up) but The Cure was nice
The Cure on Place de Quinconces.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 28/08/2026
Very exciting seasonal offerings at our hotel
Photo of a hotel menu item:

In season's salads (May - October)
Melon and ham or Tomato and burrata 

16.90
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 28/08/2026
I love how many companies there are now that are like "Our modern camera bag doesn't look like a camera bag at all" and then the bag looks pretty much like this
Very obviously a camera bag.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 26/08/2026
Had to
A Dutch cookbook from the 80s: Indonesian cooking in the microwave.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 24/08/2026
Had to make a silly little label in Canva (don't accidentally press any of the AI features challenge)
A fig & chipotle jam label.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 23/08/2026
French realtors love suggesting what you can do with a place using AI. This is my favorite before and after yet
Drab looking backlot. Drab looking backlot with an AI generated table and chairs shown in the middle.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 23/08/2026
I refused to read it. It was the cover story even 🤦🏻‍♀️
Saturday magazine cover shot with a phone on an iPad.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 23/08/2026
Your favorite Disney prince (wrong answers only)
Harold from Harold & Maude.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 22/08/2026
FIGS! The small ones stayed really small and mostly fell off due to the heat. The big boys are also smaller and ripe A MONTH EARLIER than previous years
Two bowls filled with two kinds of figs.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 22/08/2026
This lady with the biggest primordial pouch is 8 today 🥳
A calico cat lounging happily on the soil.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 20/08/2026
Tomatoes with 'curry' yoghurt. Pistachios my own addition. I really need to write down what magazines I screenshot recipes from. Might make this again as a side for a cheese platter dinner or something
Plate of thin tomato slices in a pool of yellow yoghurt topped with pistachios and glistening with olive oil.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 19/08/2026
Limonada de Cedrón or Peruvian lemon verbena lemonade, now live on the blog. I know it's getting colder but there's still time for refreshing drinks (though you could also serve this warm, oop) www.dorothy-porker.com/limonada-de-...
A glass of lemonade with a leopard print, with a black and white candy cane printed straw in it, surrounded by two twigs of lemon verbena with a bumble bee hidden in one of the twigs.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 19/08/2026
Itty bitty demanding Kitty commitee turns 16 today. Would like the vet to stop telling us she's extremely old please
Weirdly rolled up yet stretched out little black cat.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 18/08/2026
Throwback to that time a baby birb fell from the mulberry (we put it back and didn't see it again, so hopefully it turned out okay)
A grumpy befuddled looking baby bird sitting next to a small Byrrh A l'eau Sec plate in the dirt.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 17/08/2026
Looking for a new bin and spotted this beauty
A grey plastic bin with a print that says "Gorgeous beautiful extra ordinary pure present" in one of those live laugh love motifs. The description reads "Poubelle de cusine 40L a pedale ROTHO Paso motif hipster". It gets 4 out of 5 stars from 5 reviewers.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 14/08/2026
The weather is a lie!
Screenshot of weather app claiming there's thunder and rain.Photo of extremely sunny garden.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 11/08/2026
Fennel, pea, paneer, rocket and mint salad with a cumin lemon dressing from Parsi by Farokh Talati. A very slept on cookbook if you ask me 🍽
Salad mixed in a bowl as described in post.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 09/08/2026
Unhatched black redstart egg
Tiny white egg on medium sized hand.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 08/08/2026
Went to a local Marche Nocturne last night and had the best tiny tiny moules. The company was good so I was too late for paella even though we sat in full view (and scent) of it all evening
A bowl of tiny moules.Paella stand.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 05/08/2026
Lemon meringue 🥰
Lemon meringue tartelette.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 03/08/2026
Best Vinted find ever? A massive salad bowl on legs, it might even be big enough to be my @nigella.bsky.social style chip cauldron
A wooden salad bowl on legs, it stands about 1 meter tall next to a Billy bookcase.Top view of.massive wooden salad bowl with cucumber for scale.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 02/08/2026
A little bar snack to go with your cold beverage on a hot summer's day www.dorothy-porker.com/dorothy-pork... 🍽️
A small pancake topped with kimchi, smoked oyster, mayo and fake caviar balancing on a beer bottle.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 01/08/2026
Always so fascinated by French Americana
A faded poster saying "Le grand show Américain Vegas" with lots of white, blue, red and stars with a blonde girl with a cowboy hat off to one side and a native American on a horse off to the other side and a clown in the bottom corner. There is faded text for "Le Globe Infernal" at the bottom as well.
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Dorothy Porker @dorothy-porker.com · 30/07/2026
Had to try the 'gland' while I wait, a bit too sweet for me
A choux pastry covered in pink frosting and chocolate sprinkles.
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