Cook, Shoot & Eat Gascony…in London & Paris!
Si tu ne viens pas à La Gascogne, La Gascogne ira à toi! / “If you don’t come to Gascony, Gascony will come to you!” Paraphrased from one of my all time favorite swashbuckling movies- Le Bossu, it does indeed serve as our cry to arms to bring a bit of Gascon country magic to two city venues- Paris and London for a weekend edition of our favorite Natural Light Natural Food photography workshop. Cook, Shoot & Eat Gascony! Cook:... Read More
Sweet Pie and other ideas from Camont
Tell me about pie and one person springs to mind. Kate McDermott. The Art of the Pie. From a flour dusted apron to her sunny blue chapeau, Kate is my inspiration for all things round and sweet. When we met last year in Seattle for the first time, to bake side by side our American/Franco versions of apple pie, the Sisters of the Pie was born. Our wonderful pie- lovin’ filmmaker Luuvu captured the movement here. Sisters of the Pie from by.luuvu... Read More
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
Poule-au-Pot…a chicken in every pot.
Camont's Henri IV Merci Henri IV*. You started a culinary tradition that outlasts event he most political promises when you declared in the late 1500′s- Si Dieu me prête vie, je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon royaume qui n’ait les moyens d’avoir le dimanche une poule dans son pot! If God spares me, I will ensure that there is no working man in my kingdom who does not have the means to have a chicken in the pot every... 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
