With everything that’s happened this year, we haven’t been able to make as much of the garden as we would have liked. Really, we’d hoped to have finalised the purchase of our land by now and have had access over the summer – to set up “camp” and start to get some vegetable beds ready […]
Continue ReadingAs much as I love the warmth of spring and summer, there’s something about the autumn light and the urge to wrap up, nest, and make warm, hearty food that makes me wonder whether I should really choose autumn as my favourite season. The weather cooled all of the sudden just a week or so […]
Continue ReadingSince moving to France we’ve fallen into some pretty bad habits food-wise. Think white bread, full-fat cheese, yoghurts, charcuterie, pasta, and so on. On top of that we also had, for a while, an intense relationship with multipacks of chocolatines which, thankfully, we’ve managed to break. Although I’ve not been gaining weight (okay, maybe a […]
Continue ReadingI was lucky enough to have been given a bag of wild garlic, which is just coming out of season and grows abundantly along the river banks around here. Learning when and where to pick many of these natural foods is all part of the learning experience in this part of the world that’s new […]
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