“If you look in my fridges you will always see two chickens. We have become “known” for our Friday Chicken recipes and this slow roasted chicken with garlic and lemon is one of my favourite – especially when spring has arrived the sun is starting to shine and there’s a hint of warmth in [...]
Or as my French neighbour calls it Mijoté de poulet au cidre et moutarde à l’ancienne. This is a really simple recipe and very easy to make but delicious to eat! Ingredients for 4 people 400g boned & skinned chicken breasts 210ml dry cider 1 ½ tablespoons wholegrain mustard 15g butter 2 tablespoons of oil [...]
Looks really special, tastes delicious, this great recipe for duck in red wine sauce with crème de cassis couldn’t be quicker or easier to make and goes perfectly with duck. You can vary the sauce with fruit that’s in season and different liqueurs for instance raspberries with crème de framboise or slices of orange with [...]
Carol Drinkwater, actress and author of the delectable Olive Series books and now film maker shared a recipe with us for her “ perfect winter stew with beef, a little red wine and lots of onions and garlic…” She says that she usually cooks this delectable casserole for “six people and whatever is left over [...]
When Chef Philippe Aubron of Au Trotthus in Riquewihr, Alsace shared this signature recipe with us we were thrilled and a little daunted at the prospect of attempting to cook it. The very sound of this dish is so French, so haute cuisine, so luxurious, epicurean even – but – if you are thinking the [...]
This mussels recipe for Moules Savoyardes –or mussels cooked Mussels Savoie style uses a traditional cheese from Savoie (Savoy) – reblochon. If you can’t get reblochon - substitute with another creamy cheese with an earthy taste, some chefs suggest Brie or Camembert. Ingredients for 4 people 2 kg of mussels 25 cl dry white wine or Alsatian [...]
This dish for me represents rustic French cuisine at its best – simple to prepare, local ingredients and very tasty. From the foodie region of Alsace which is always a great source of wonderful traditional recipes this is called Pommes de terre aux oignons et au lard. This unique dish was eaten in the small [...]
Recipe for Moules Marinière which means mussels mariner style. It is a traditional French dish that originated in Normandy (it is claimed) and is widely served throughout France but particularly in coastal towns. Make absolutely sure to clean the mussels properly and debeard them before you cook them – it’s horrible to chew sand particles if [...]
A classic French receipe for chicken in vin jaune (yellow wine) with delicisous morel mushrooms. Ingredients for 4 people 1.5-2kg chicken ½ bottle vin jaune (yellow wine) 400g rice, 200g cream, 25g flour, 40g dried morel mushrooms Method 1. Rinse the mushrooms in water and then soak for about 8 hours 2. Cut [...]
Chicken with champagne sauce – sounds impressive, looks impressive and tastes fabulous – but it is actually a very simple dish to make. If you don’t want to use champagne for this French recipe you can use a dry white sparkling wine instead and save the champagne to drink with the meal! Ingredients for 4 [...]
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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 [...]
It’s good to know some things stay the same When my mother bought her holiday house in northern France 35 years ago, I had no idea how large a part this lovely country was going to play in my life. I was eleven at the time, and simply enjoyed the trips across the Channel [...]
As you might know by now, I cannot resist a French flea market and the one I went to on Sunday on my French countryside jaunt was particularly small and not great but on the last stall in the road there was a cage with a cockerel. The sign said “Cockerel Nagasaki €5.00”. The [...]
