Recipes

When we lived in Wales there was a fish restaurant we used to go to on a regular basis.  It was unlike French fish restaurants but still had a charm of its own. I used to have hake in batter, not fillet but hake being a round fish it can be cut in the same [...]

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Anglo versus Gallic

The weather on Sunday was probably the hottest so far and we were invited to lunch by a couple who are students of Mrs.Powerfulpierre and who have become friends as well.  We arrived a little late,  The Bishop was attending the local church and it went on a bit, they have a modern house in [...]

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Our Commune

The weather has been so hot these last few days that doing anything outside apart from sitting in the shade and drinking beer, has been virtually impossible. On top of that we have been invaded by moles who seem to have delighted in making hills in every bit of grass they can.  Apart from making [...]

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Some recipes

I feel I have perhaps been a little remiss with the number of recipes I have published. This is partly due to such brilliant sites as food stories and leftoverqueen who do a lot better job particularly on the photo front. Anyway I came across this recipe recently as a result of taking tea at [...]

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A bit of controversy

It will be a year ago that I first started writing this weblog and I took some time out to read the very first one I wrote last September. At the moment blackberries and harvesting them are my main concern and the question of what to do with them apart from jelly, crumble and pie [...]

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Two parties and a funeral

We came to France to get away from the rat race of the UK, to live a quieter, simpler life and to a large extent we have achieved our dream. However things do not always go the way you want to and so it was that on Friday morning we drove to Evron to find [...]

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