by kitchenadmin | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog
Nana said, ‘Oh, you must come to the market on Monday evening. You’ll love it!’ She mentions the name of the place where it is held; but that’s a really tiny village in the Col des Chèvres – why would they hold a market there, I wonder? Anyway, there’s not a lot...
by kitchenadmin | Aug 1, 2024 | Blog
When you visit La Truchère, listen out for the cry of the sigognes blanches. It’s a distinctive, high pitched screech – not beautiful, but immediately recognisable. Look skywards and, if your luck is in, you’ll see these huge birds – storks –...
by kitchenadmin | Jul 29, 2024 | Blog
Boeuf Bourguignon – is essentially a beef stew made with mushrooms and onions and plenty of Burgundy wine. This is a great dish regularly destroyed by participants on the excruciatingly awful UKTV programme, ‘Come Dine With Me’! Or there’s Coq au Vin, another...
by kitchenadmin | Jul 29, 2024 | Blog
Fascinating creatures – cows! I know just seeing them doing not a lot in fields may not be rivetting stuff but haven’t you ever, for instance, idly wondered how it is that they all manage to point in much the same direction when they are eating and why...
by kitchenadmin | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog
Whimsy is not something that those of Anglo-Saxon extraction are truly comfortable with except when it combines with the sort of monomaniacal madness that only the French seem capable of. Then, even though we don’t quite understand it, we do warm to it. Such as that...