This old recipe for infused fruits came from one of my great-great aunts who ran a pub in the deepest part of Devonshire and this was “allegedly” a firm favourite with some of the regulars. It has transferred easily to France where there’s nothing nicer than perusing the French markets to see what fruit [...]
Caroline Sharp, an expat in France who runs Le Caillau restaurant and café Atelier in the Lot shared her recipe for these fabulous Chocolate Brownies with a French twist Ingredients 275g Sugar 3 Eggs 185g Butter 200g Nutella 80g Flour 50g Butter 80g Walnuts (optional) Method Melt the butter and Nutella together. Mix the [...]
This is a delicious crepe cake recipe – layered with crêpes, toasted hazelnut pastry cream, and topped with a chocolate sauce and candied hazelnuts shared with us by cookery teacher and French cuisine guru Mandy Kelley Jones of Simply French: From the time I was very young, crêpes were a staple breakfast food on the [...]
Cathy Henton, the Loire Wine Lady of Le Tasting room shared this lovely, easy recipe with us for a classic dish – Praline Tart (French: Tarte aux Pralines Roses). She says that you need a sugar thermometer for this but it’s worth the effort as the dish is so easy and the colour is amazing [...]
The Loire Wine Lady, Cathy Henton from Le Tasting Room shared this very easy but totally delicious recipe for a classic French dessert with us. She says it is just perfect with a sweet wine and makes for a super reomantic or Valentine’s Day dessert – we definitely agree with that! Ingredients 1 Tub [...]
Julia of Julia’s pantry says: We like to make cake mix, leave it overnight in the fridge as the recipe requires and cook it in the morning the next day – it floods the house with lovely baking smells and is ready in time for a late morning slice of cake and a cup of [...]
This classic French recipe for Pear Tart Bourdaloue – a fabulous tart, is not as difficult as you might think. You can substitute the pears in syrup in the recipe for tinned pears but I preferred to do it the way Chef Coquelin who invented Tarte Bourdaloue intended. (For more on this see my [...]
This is one of our favourite recipes for using up bananas… there always seem to be “going black” bananas on top of our fruit bowl and we tend to get fed up with Banana Bread or Fruit Salad… We do like Banoffee Pie… But that is hugely calorific so we tend not to make that [...]
On 12th Day of Christmas – in January each year, the whole of France goes gaga for a cake called Galette des Rois. A tradition which celebrates the Epiphany – it refers to the three kings who followed the star to Bethlehem – the golden flaky pastry cake is filled with almond paste and topped with [...]
We decided somewhat on the spur of the moment to make mince pies – perfect for Christmas and New Year’s eve and frankly – any other time of the year. Ideally you would make your mincemeat ahead and let it mature but we didn’t have time and this is a simple recipe that is [...]
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The papers are currently full of news about proposals to mount wind turbines on the beaches of Normandy – including at least one of the D-Day landing beaches. Some newspapers are calling it an “invasion” – emotional words, and this is a very provocative subject. The proposal is to erect 75 of the huge [...]
The Good Life France talks to Roger St Pierre – an award-winning writer who has visited every one of France’s 94 metropolitan departments as a cyclist, journalist, author and Francophile… Roger, who The Good Life France is honoured to include amongst its very talented group of writers, tells me he taught himself French by [...]
Well, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that the sheep across the road has gone to the great pasture in the sky. When I bought my house nine years ago it came with a sheep! The lady who owned the house before me had let the man across the road [...]
The allure of the good life in France and the charms of the beautiful town of Beziers ensnared British expat Mark Binmore who runs the highly successful Maison de l’Orb, a beautiful B&B. Mark told us that he lived in London since the early 1990s, worked as a pub landlord for several breweries, is the [...]
Expats in France Donna and Dave Faulkner fell in love with Deux-Sevres in the Poitou-Charentes region when they visited friends who lived there. When Dave was unexpectedly offered a job – they said goodbye to Britain and jumped head first into life in France in their new home which needed a bit of renovation as [...]
British expat Sue Aitken lives in south west France and runs Blackhen Education – a business that she set up after planning to move to Spain to be a teacher. She and her partner travelled through France on their way to jobs and a life in Spain but they fell in love with [...]
How two Brits met and changed their lives with a move to France… Chris was a veteran of 30 years in the Metropolitan police, running his own outdoor activity business specializing in mountain biking, walking and climbing, father to three grown-up children and mentor to many more. Charlotte was a classic single “Social Butterfly”, [...]
I was recently asked to write about expats in France, people who leave their homes in all areas of the world to go to France to live. I thought back over the years about the many expats I’ve met, interviewed (I am a journalist not just a crazy person going round firing questions at [...]
