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Shawn Hennessey ☀️🍷 @sevillatapas.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

So I made Debora’s @lickedspoon.bsky.social prawn & avocado salad (with a couple of tweaks) and it was fabulous. 🦐🥑🥗 #homecooking #sevilla #spain Follow Debora on substack for lots of great stories and recipes from the south of France. open.substack.com/pub/deboraro...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/12/2025

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I know this means I may never be allowed back into the UK, but Quality Street lost its appeal when they replaced their pretty, spangly wrappers with the dull, slightly Soviet ones (I know,I know, for entirely reasonable planet-saving reasons). So it has to be Marrons glacés.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 16/12/2025

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

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Let me break this down for you.Duck eggs instead of chicken eggs? That's actually fine. Duck eggs work in eggnog. That's not your problem.
Goose fat instead of milk? Goose fat is a solid cooking fat for roasting potatoes. Milk is a liquid dairy product. They are not interchangeable You essentially made hot melted goose fat with duck eggs. Of course it was terrible.
Bottom line: If you fundamentally change the structure of a recipe by using completely different ingredients with entirely different properties, you're not making eggnog. You're conducting a failed science experiment. Make it again with actual dairy and report back.

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Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Coming up this Friday.... me deciding on this year's xmas dinner in real time, with help from a wide range of people, exploring Christmases past, present and future....

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I love it when people throw themselves head first into my recipes! And make them their own. Highest compliment.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A little obsessed with this new Channel 4 prog, B+B Challenge, where couples who've never worked in hospitality before compete to win a B+B in France by running B+Bs in the Dordogne for a week. Few of them speak any French (how will you run a business?), more than one lot serve frozen croissants.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

How to fit 5 litres of chicken stock into a tiny freezer? Reduce it, reduce it, reduce it.

A white chopping board on a wooden table. Reduced chicken stock has been cut into square - it looks like fudge.

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Mrs. N @btwnthesepages.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I can't help reposting all the potato recipes. It is in my very blood. I am from potato people.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I made a cappuccino and sloshes a little of my homemade vanilla extract into the milk so I'm basically Starbucks now. Morning.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Some of you were asking me for the recipe for these winegrowers' potatoes last night. It's on my Substack now. The recipe part of the post is for paid subscribers, but you can sign up for a free trial to read it if you would like to. Hope you make it! deborarobertson.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Made winegrowers' potatoes. Bacon, potatoes, cheese.

A round "cake" of potatoes and cheese wrapped in bacon, one slice cut out to reveal the interior.

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rankamateur @rankamateur.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This 🧵

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Bayern obviously Tottenham in disguise.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Absolutely raging at the men working outside in the garden. The impertimence.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It's been a tough day for a puppy, essentially doing nothing.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Goodnight from the South of France. Sleep crazy.

A brown puppy in a grey fluffy dog bed, lying on her back with her legs in the air like she just don't care. Cos she don't.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22/11/2025

I am, to be sure, reasonably easily irritated, but people who hurl down hamfisted and usually unsupported statements followed by "You're welcome" should be chased by pitchfork-and torch-wielding mobs.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Wish me luck. I am going to go and plant about a million bulbs and it is cold with a bitter wind. I am so brave.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Where’s Nigel? And why won’t he answer our questions? Who introduced his good friend Nathan Gill to a Russian spy? 🧐 Cracking new film from @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social & @sheridanflynn.com for @thenerve.news

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Very good to see Nathan Gill of Reform has been given a 10 1/2 years custodial sentence for taking Russian bribes. Take our country back from these crooks. In mitigation, his statement claimed he was a man of "deep faith". Deep faith in his own greed and mendaciousness. Absolute trash.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 05/11/2025

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Anecdolts

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 08/11/2025

Mediterranean lifestyle still holding up

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Just to reiterate my view, having studied the history of the BBC for over a quarter of a century - as well as having worked there for several years as a journalist: Robbie Gibb should have absolutely no role whatsoever in the governance of the Corporation.

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Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak

Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

After all the rain and thunder yesterday, she is just so happy to be outside.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It's been thunder and lightning and rain here all day today and this puppy has zero interest in going outside. Excellent lap warmer though.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Discussion of lots of people being on long term sick leave since 2019 without mentioning covid is like talking about wwii without mentioning bombs or guns. And yet....

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

These LNER staff were incredibly brave.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

5.30 and it's already getting dark. Furious.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/10/2025

I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Made braised pigs' cheeks with toasted hazelnuts and roast figs and I'm not sad about it.

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Came home and I wasn't the only one keen to get in the house..

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Chrissake. Impossible to underestimate a certain type, isn't it?

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Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Made coq au vin en croûte. The criminality. Sunday lunch of love.

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