Châtelet-les-Halles is located in the centre of Paris - the 1st arrondissement, and it's pronounced (pretty close to) shot-lay-lay-all. It's one of the oldest parts of Paris, the "halles" part referring to a covered market. In 1137 Louis XII decided to build an open-air market in a place outside ... read more
Blanquette de Veau
Blanquette is referring to the fact that the dish is full of white ingredients. White = Blanc. You can use any white meat, such as poultry - think turkey legs - but it's principally prepared with veal. Veau is pronounced like go -( vo). You'll need 1.5 kilos of meat with some fat and no bone. I ... read more
The Validity of God’s Word
This post is based on one of the Basic Principles studies we do in our church - the Word of God. While the Scriptures are standard to the study, the reasoning and commentary (apart from a couple of the analogies) are mine. I would say that most people - Christians and non-Christians - don't believe ... read more
Dressing Up
Halloween is not at all a big deal in France. You may get a few trick-or-treaters. I think the bell rang, maybe, six times? And of course there were the sweet little pumpkins with their fathers, as well as the gang of pre-teens in masks who started reaching into the candy bowl themselves, shoving ... read more
Café de la Jatte
My husband and I celebrated thirteen years of marriage by shipping our angels off to their grandparents, who stoically bore the exceptional amount of noise very small people can make. On Sunday night we went to see Mortal Instruments and ate Haagen Dazs ice cream . . . just because we could. We were ... read more
Cherry Clafoutis
Clafoutis comes from the Limousin region of the southwest of France. It's sometimes spelled without the "s" at the end, but the correct spelling is clafoutis, pronounced, klah-foo-tee, with an equal accent on each syllable. There are many varying recipes for clafoutis, and I'm not even talking ... read more
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