It’s time to pick the radishes so I sent Young Knight out to harvest them and he did an impeccable job pulling the ones that were the right size and leaving the ones that were too puny. These home grown fellas made me think of the most common way of serving them in France, as an hors d’oeuvre with butter… Read More
Archives for April 2011
Somebody
Somebody turned seven this week. Somebody found all her presents hidden in the chimney. Somebody didn’t appreciate the turn of events (that is, somebody else getting all the presents). (Somebody is handsome when he broods though. Shall we say the future Edward the vampire? Or … whatever the next craze will be?) Somebody gave us a cherry tree to grace… Read More
Misadventures with Andi
Today I am guest-posting at Misadventures with Andi for her Beyond Paris series. Andi is a world-traveling, French-marrying, food-loving, marketing specialist. What’s not to love about that? In her blog, you’ll get her J’adore series, which has all sorts of cool things she discovers on the Internet. Check out her latest (especially the gum). She also shares her insight on… Read More
Scenes from Auvergne
Hi everyone, I’m tired. Too tired to read everyone’s blogs, which makes me feel guilty and I’m good at guilty. But it’s planting season, which means that my wrists hurt again from wielding a spade, and typing doesn’t help them to heal. And my teaching is going to start up again. And I have my interview for the patisserie school,… Read More
Visiting Auvergne
There are three chains of volcanos in Auvergne, called «les massifs. » There’s Puy de Dôme. Puy (pronounced «pwee ») means volcano and is also pronounced like the French word for well (the kind with water), which is « puit. » This massif is where Volvic water comes from. It actually gushes out of its source and the world is more likely to boycott plastic… Read More
Paris Through the Eyes Of …
I asked my old friend Shari (old in years, not in age), who is also known as Dusty Earth Mother, to provide my blog with some interesting reading material while I’m away. And she graciously obliged. Shari and I both got engaged in the same month to a man we swore we would never marry, and attended each other’s wedding… Read More