La Tranche Sur Mer, on the Atlantic Coast of France, is one of those typically Euro beach destinations: lots of camping grounds, men who think it’s okay to terrify the female public by strutting around in a pair of form-revealing speedos, kids dragging giant inflatable animal-shaped float-aids along the street and lots and lots of ice cream shops. [...]
Archive for the ‘French food’ Category
Ice cream – Paradis sur Mer!
Posted in France, French Holidays, French beaches, French food, French shops, Made in France, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged arlequin ice cream, Fernch food, France, French beach resorts, French Holidays, French ice cream, ice cream merchandising, la guimauve, la Tranche sur Mer, lime ice cream, nutella ice cream, strawberry ice cream on November 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Fantastic French Food – from a kitchen in Austin, Texas
Posted in French diet, French food, French products, French recipes, tagged French food, French cooking, Laetitia Bertrand, The French Fork, The Polski Blog, La Vache Qui Rit, Laughing cow cheese, Gratin Dauphinois, Potatoes dauphinoises, Potato recipes, Zucchini soup recipe, French kitchens, French recipes on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to ThePolskiBlog’s blogroll, I have today found a fantastic French food blog based in Austin, Texas of all places! Called The French Fork, it’s the blog-child of Laetitia Bertrand, a French native with a no-nonsense approach to French gastronomy. Because I can’t say it any better myself, here’s Laetitia’s blog profile:
Laetitia Bertrand was born in [...]
I could eat a horse! (and often do…)
Posted in France, France in photos, French Holidays, French food, French shops, Made in France, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged Boucherie Chevaline, Fontenay-le-Comte, France, French food, French food shops, French shops, Horse butcher, Horse meat, Vietnamese food on August 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is a photo of a horse-butcher’s shop in Fontenay-le-Comte. I simply had to take a photo. Monsieur didn’t get it, but he didn’t grow up in a country where eating horse would be like eating the family dog. Kiwis just wouldn’t ever consider it. Because of that, for me, seeing horse butchers is half novelty [...]
Frenchified women
Posted in Books about France - non fiction, France, French chic, French diet, French fashion, French food, French stereotypes, tagged Debra Ollivier, diets, Entre Nous - A woman's guide to finding her inner Frenc, French diet, French lifestyle, French stereotypes, French style, French weight loss, French women, French women don't get fat, French women for all seasons, Frenchified Women, Japanese women don't get old or fat, lifestyle, Mediterranean Women stay slim too, Melissa Kelly, Mireille Guiliano, Naomi Moriyama on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a popular stereotype about French women that conjures images of slim, elegant pouty beauties who grace sidewalk cafés as they puff sexily on cigarettes and sip espressos. These women go everywhere in a garter belt and stockings, never chip a nail and wouldn’t be seen dead in a pair of trainers. It’s a beautiful [...]
Gesiers confits de canard du Sud-Ouest
Posted in French food, French recipes, French supermarkets, tagged French food, gesiers de canard, duck gizzards, recipes, French cooking, French salads, salads, light dinners, French supermarkets on August 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I may have mentioned here that I love duck. French duck. All parts of the duck, except maybe the beak and feet. To my utter horror, I recently found that I have been particularly enjoying duck gizzards, or gésiers de canard. Mon Dieu. Gizzards? Really? Luckily for me, instead of rushing to the nearest loo [...]
Paris, 75007
Posted in A Tale of Two Cities, Famous places, France, French Holidays, French food, Paris, Restaurants - Paris, Travel, tagged 7th arrondissement, Cafe du Marche, Champ de Mars, Champs de Fleurs, confit de canard, Eiffel Tower, France, French food, handbags, l'Esprit du Sud-Ouest, La Fontaine de Mars, La Maison du Jambon, La Tour Eiffel, les Invalides, Paris, Paris 75007, Paris restaurants, Paris shopping, Quai Branly, rue Cler, rue Saint-Dom, rue Saint-Dominique, Saint Germain, Stock-Sacs, Travel on August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For a truly Parisian experience, I love to explore the area surrounding rue Saint-Dominique. The length of this shop-lined street running from Saint Germain, past les Invalides to the Champ de Mars, provides plenty of opportunity to fill up a suitcase without the challenge of the Big Avenue crowds and, if one suitcase proves insufficient, there are a couple of wonderful wholesale [...]
Une Salade Perigourdine
Posted in Dordogne, France, French Holidays, French food, French recipes, Restaurants - France, Travel, tagged Travel, French food, French restaurants, recipe, Salade Perigourdine, perigourdine salad, duck salad, magret de canard fume, smoked duck breast, Perigord, duck giblets, gesiers de canard, Toulouse, Wilson Square, salade terroir, Borough Market, Sauternes, fig chutney, French recipe on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Winter Grasse
Posted in France, France in photos, French Holidays, French food, Restaurants - France, tagged France, Travel, Grasse, Cannes, Cafe Arnaud, South of France, Salade Nicoise, Salade Perigourdine, Grasse market, Mory Kante, slow restaurant service, Place aux Aires, Longchamps, perfume, duck, Grasse shopping, foie gras, lavender, Nativity scene, 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 France, Paris, French food, tomato avocado mozzarella salad, salad recipe, recipe, cooking, Italian food, food presentation, preserve jars, Sarlat-le-Caneda, 7th arrondissement, Tribeca rue Cler, salade de tomates avocat mozza, food, cuisine 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, [...]
