by kitchenadmin | Jul 26, 2024 | blog, 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 TV programme, ‘Come Dine With Me’! Or there’s Coq au Vin, another...
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...
by kitchenadmin | Jul 21, 2023 | Blog
Bisto? In Burgundy? Surely not! Yet I distinctly heard the word. And, spoken in a crowded market in Tournus, a place that is about as close to the centre of France as you can get. We were threading our way through the crowds, made more dense by the addition of the...
by kitchenadmin | Jun 22, 2023 | Blog
How many of them are there?Perfect days? Too few just lately.How to recognise one? It is to be transported to another place, another time, another life; where all those niggles that come in the night, the daily irritations, the ceaseless concern about the future are...
by kitchenadmin | Oct 26, 2022 | Blog
Super indulgent – definitely! But there we are – someone has to keep up the hedonistic traditions – if only in a fairly mild-ish way; such was our day out last Thursday in the region of Beaujolais. In my head, I always think of ‘Beaujolais’ as a...