I drove back from the UK last week, to find Provence experiencing the coldest weather I have ever known. I could feel the wind shaking the car as I passed Lyon, a sure indicator that the Mistral was blowing. The whole of France was below zero degrees centigrade, in fact the Pot au Feu[Read More]
Recipes
New Years Day in Provence with Aigo boulidou, or Garlic Soup
In France, the Christmas festive days are spent inside with the family, but for le réveillon, or New Year’s Eve the doors are flung open and all and sundry are invited in. Everyone must have a party to go to and if they don’t they go to a restaurant or hotel to celebrate New Years Day in Provence with Aigo boulidou, or Garlic Soup[Read More]
Painting with chaux
I was talking to a friend the other day about how as you get older, you are less interested in fashion, or dressing yourself and more interested in dressing your house and creating a beautiful home environment instead. In my younger years my favourite shops were dress shops and Painting with chaux[Read More]
Shaping your Kneads, Making Bread
When my mother came to the UK in the early 60’s (via Turkey and India, but she was in fact German) she was dismayed at the bread available at the time. She was used to an array of rye, wheat, full grain, sourdough, in fact hundreds of different types of bread that she had grown Shaping your Kneads, Making Bread[Read More]
Olives Cassées de Paradou
I love olives, which is just as well, as there's a lot of them about in Provence. There are olive groves everywhere you look and most people living in the countryside have olive trees in their gardens. My favourite olives are called picholines, they are slightly elongated and Olives Cassées de Paradou[Read More]