Tourteau Fromage de Chevre- a goat cheese treat!
Goats. Cheese. Cake. Our day started on Goats, moved into Cheese- chèvre, of course, and then finished on Cake. Goat’s Cheese Cake. I welcomed @SabinaCuisina into the Gascon Kitchen a short week ago, fresh from midterms at her culinary institute and ready for a Gascon Spring Break. (thanks to hubby TP!) Sabina was not the first person in the Gascon Kitchen that lives and breathes cheese- goats, sheep or cow! But she is the first person to... Read More
Raising Chickens & the age old conundrum of how to use a dozen eggs: Omelette Catalane
When I bought my first chickens at the Agen Market 18 months ago, it was an experiment in reclaiming the rural roots of Camont, a historic 18th-century Gascon farmhouse on two-and-a-half acres of fertile Garonne River Valley land. I have called Camont home base for over 20 years. I’d come and go as the work and pleasure ed me, sometimes floating away on the big Barge for chartering for months then returning again for months of summer landlocked... Read More
A Sweet Omelet as light as a golden cloud for you!
SPRING My Gascon neighbors call Spring- le saison d’amour the season of love. This morning, this too cold February morning and Valentine’s Day, I found my sweetheart present on the ground outside the chicken coop. Not one, but TWO fat white translucent-shelled duck eggs and the Spring promise of Easter ducklings and next Fall’s Duckfest here at Camont. When I was a girl, my mother had a funny way of nagging us to clean our rooms.... Read More
Bon Jour les Poulets!
Created by Julia Leach, 8-week stagiere at the Kitchen-at-Camont. Fall ’09. Read More
Sunday Grasse Matinee- hatching ideas
I love it when I feel I am in the middle of something. It doesn’t happen often being a bit of a “living on the edge” sort of person- in all senses. But when it does, I feel that delicious “a-ha!” moment welling up out of my back brain and jumping out of my mouth onto The Keyboard. A-ha! Locavorism is my way of being a lazy bum- what’s growing outside the door? dandelions? rosemary? rosehips? A-ha! Organic Gardening... Read More
What comes first, the chicken or French eggs?s
A totem tribute to some of my busy chickens working up the ‘feathered orchard’ and a few favorite eggs shots by fellow bon vivant Tim Clinch. Seems like everyone I spoke or twittered to today had something to say about eggs. Oh, these super fresh, straight from the hen house, goldenyolkedsilkywhite French EGGS!! this morning I splashed a tsp of sunflower oil in the pan, grated half a zucchini, a small chunk of cheese, some dried breadcrumbs... Read More
