Sandrine is cooking a classic family recipe: the daube de boeuf
Sandrine is cooking for us today a beautiful daube de boeuf, a family recipe. A vos tabliers!
POSTCARD FROM LARRAU
Ha… les Pyrénées! The first thing I do everytime I come back in my hometown Pau, for holidays, is always to organise some trips to the Mountains. The majesty, the quietness, the tranquility of the Mountains is so relaxing. In today’s trip, we are heading with my parents and husband to the border of Spain,…
It’s my name’s day today! C’est ma fête!
Today, it’s my name’s day. Most Australians don’t understand this mostly European tradition and more often find it really weird and quite insignificant.
Les recettes de ma grand-mère: le far Breton
I was watching a replay of Masterchef last night. Three contestants were fighting to avoid elimination. The challenge: cooking a multiple colored layer cake in 3.5 hours! Waouh! I don’t doubt the cake will be nice and tasty at the end, but who’s got time to cook a desert like that? I love cooking and…
“Féminin ” or “masculin”, that is the question!
If you didn’t know it already, all french nouns are either ” feminine” or “masculine”. For anglosaxons this can be tricky. It matters as feminine nouns will be preceded by “la” or “une” and masculine nouns by “le” or “un”. To help out here is a tip: usually feminine nouns will end with the sound…
Postcard from Salon de Provence
La Provence, cultural région of the South-East of France, is after Paris, the most visited place in France. Often associated with the movies Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, endless fields of lavender and olive trees, picturesque villages and towns such as Aix en Provence, Avignon and Arles, Provence has been the home and…
Recettes de ma grand-mère : oven baked potatoes in duck fat
It is a very simple and delicious recipe and you just need 5 minutes to prepare it!It is a great side dish with fish, chicken, roast beef and even a salad.
Postcard from Pau
Pau, (pronounced Poe), capital of the Bearn region, has a dream location: a couple of hours away (with the highway) from Bordeaux and Toulouse, the biggest towns of the South-West region, 1h30 away for the Atlantic Coast and the resort town of Biarritz and a little hour from the Pyrenees numerous valleys and the Spanish…
The best of the French clichés
Ok, it is a bit exaggerated, but very funny! French stereotypes are still very thick skinned. Will you be tempted to add anything else in this list? Bon d’accord, c’est un peu exagéré, mais c’est tout de même très marrant! Les stéréotypes Français ont décidemment la peau dure ! Et vous, que rajouteriez-vous à cette…
Un jour en France: Art exhibition de Jaume Plensa au coeur de Bordeaux
What a great art exhibition in the middle of Bordeaux! C’est magnifique!