Sunday Morning Market in Agen
Morning Glory! The French week begins on Sunday in Agen.This most important market in the Lot-et-Garonne is at the Place du Pin on Sundays–then repeats on Wednesday and twice again on Saturdays at the Graviers and Place du Laitiers. Every week.All year long. These thousand-year-old Sunday morning secular gatherings worshipping the colors, textures and tastes of the farmer’s labor are the foundation of every French village, town and city life. These markets are also... Read More
Breakfast of Champions- challenge
Inspired by Pim’s yummy protein breakfast photo, I snapped this as I walked my cereal into the garden and garnished with the best ever framboises. This coolish and wet summer has yielded a bumber crop– a large bowl full every 2-3 days. Eh, voila! Breakfast …on the hoof. Let the weeding begin! Read More
Pirate Queen/Cook turns Handyman
Sometimes it’s the little things. a shower pump on the forward cabin head fails to turn on (human error) and the water overflows onto the cabin floor. New carpet this week. No handy man around. Buy the carpet, a new box cutter, and the sticky velcro tape. The rest of the tools? Shamelessly from my galley drawer.All in a day’s work!P.S. the foie gras knife worked best to tuck in the carpet edges under the heavy mahogany built in bed! Read More
Summer French Kitchen Confiture
too hot to cook inside the galley the Cooking School Kitchen too clean to mess up so outside to my “petit robinson” kitchen by the barge to splatter sticky red syrup of framboise & peche de vigne harvested from potager & verger and make four jeweled pots of confitures sweet French summers in a jar for the Keeping Kitchen at Camont inside & outside kitchens at Camont Read More
French Kitchen Adventures- back to school schedule
What’s in the box, Bacon? Back to School- 1958- book bags, new ankle socks, the dreaded tartan print school uniform and six new white short sleeved blouses.2008- a new, bright orange, softly curved, high sheen Italian refrigerator. Fifty years later, the new September stuff is still exciting. For those interested in what the school year brings this year in the French Kitchen, the cat is out of the bag, the SMEG is out of the box, and the rumors are true*. The Diva often... Read More
