I’ll never forget the day I first tried a Salade Périgourdine. Monsieur and I were in Toulouse on the way to a wedding in Lot. We had stopped for lunch at a terrace restaurant on Wilson Square and I was struggling to decide what to eat. In the end, I decided to try a the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Une Salade Perigourdine
Posted in Dordogne, France, French Holidays, French food, French recipes, Restaurants - France, Travel, tagged Borough Market, duck giblets, duck salad, fig chutney, French food, French recipe, French restaurants, gesiers de canard, magret de canard fume, Perigord, perigourdine salad, recipe, Salade Perigourdine, salade terroir, Sauternes, smoked duck breast, Toulouse, Travel, Wilson Square on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Winter Grasse
Posted in France, France in photos, French Holidays, French food, Restaurants - France, tagged Cafe Arnaud, Cannes, duck, foie gras, France, Grasse, Grasse market, Grasse shopping, lavender, Longchamps, Mory Kante, Nativity scene, perfume, Place aux Aires, Salade Nicoise, Salade Perigourdine, slow restaurant service, South of France, Travel, Winter animal fair - Grasse on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monsieur and I were in Cannes for New Year but soon decided to leave the heaving Croisette for a little trip elsewhere. In our efforts to do just that we drove stop-start through the labyrinthine streets of France’s answer to Tinseltown trying to find a way out. This took a while but a U-turn and [...]
Galettes-fest
Posted in French food, French supermarkets, tagged Breton food, Breton pancakes, crepes, food, French food, galette fillings, galette recipe, galettes, pancake day, pancake fillings, pancakes on July 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
One of the special somethings that Monsieur brings back from trips to France is a pack of galettes. These buck-wheat pancakes are popular in Britanny, and brown, compared to the white of the regular flour crêpe.
If you’d like to make the galettes yourself, you could follow this recipe:
To make about 10 galettes:
Ingredients:
330g buckwheat flour
10g coarse [...]
Tomato, avocado and mozzarella salad – with a French twist.
Posted in A Tale of Two Cities, Dordogne, France, French Summer 2007, French food, Paris, Restaurants - Paris, tagged 7th arrondissement, cooking, cuisine, food, food presentation, France, French food, Italian food, Paris, preserve jars, recipe, salad recipe, salade de tomates avocat mozza, Sarlat-le-Caneda, tomato avocado mozzarella salad, Tribeca rue Cler on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last summer when Monsieur and I found ourselves at the Saturday market in Sarlat-le-Canéda, we were tempted into buying some delicious foie gras at one of the many stalls selling duck produce. The foie gras is long gone, but the preserve jars in which it was sold are still with me. Time and time again, [...]
Institut de Beaute – La Rochelle
Posted in France, France in photos, French Holidays, French chic, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged Beautician, Beauty shop, France, France in photos, French beauty, French grooming, Institut de Beaute, La Rochelle on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This beauty shop in La Rochelle stopped me in my tracks because of the painting hanging in its window. Apologies for not being able to lose more of the reflection on the glass, but if you look closely, you’ll see three topless old women smiling back at you. A better advertisement for booking an appointment [...]
Fifteen in Paris – 2
Posted in France, French Holidays, Paris, Travel, tagged Academie Francaise, Andre Le Notre, Comedie Francaise, French Revolution, Ile de la Cite, L'Opera Paris, le Marais, Le Musee Carnavalet, Louis XIV, Louvre, Napoleon, Notre Dame, Paris, Paris journal, Place des Victoires, Place des Vosges, Place Vendome, Rue St Honore, Sainte Chapelle, Samaritaine, St Germain Auxerrois, teenager's journal, Tour of historic Paris, Travel, Victor Hugo on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s day two of my first visit to Paris, from a journal written when I was an awkward fifteen years old. It’s a bit of a history lesson, this entry. Goodness only knows how I managed to take such accurate notes without missing the sights. Anyway, the itinerary is interesting and I’ve created lots of [...]
Fifteen in Paris – 1
Posted in Famous places, France, French Holidays, Hotels - Paris, Paris, tagged France, Paris, Travel, Montparnasse, teenager's journal, travel journal, first trip to Paris, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris tramp, la Tour de Montparnasse, Charles de Gaulle airport, Meridien Hotel Montparnasse, First World War Memorial Notre Dame, Paris public toilets on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was fifteen, I saw Paris for the first time. My parents had decided that our southern hemisphere summer holidays should be spent seeing some of the great cities of Europe, so here we were in the City of Light, mid-winter, just in time to celebrate the New Year.
Here are my journal entries from [...]
The Paranormal Coffee Machine
Posted in A Tale of Two Cities, French food, tagged broken coffee machine, Coffee, Coffee machine, Frenchman's coffee machine, temperamental coffee machine, The French and coffee on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When you live with a Frenchman, or any sort of man who believes in True Coffee, eventually a coffee machine will be introduced to your life. In my case, the machine in question has a eerily strong personality and seems to have taken exception to me, ever since I first attempted to get a coffee [...]
Canoe-Kayak on French rivers.
Posted in France, French Holidays, French Summer 2007, Travel, tagged beaver, boat, Cahors, canoe, canoe-kayak, Cele River, dams, Figeac, France, kayak, river, river sports, Travel on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monsieur and I love kayaking, which is called canoë-kayak in French (pronounced CAN-OO-AY kayak). Why the French feel the need to use both words, I really don’t know. Anyway, apart from our common enjoyment of this boating experience, each time Monsieur and I set off in a kayak we leave the concept of togetherness on the shore. Monsieur paddles [...]
