L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Peaches, Cake and an Era that Ends

    Peaches, Cake and an Era that Ends

    Busy days at the castle, hosting season in full swing and B&B guests from all over Europe, which makes me very happy. The other day the local newspaper was here and wrote a really nice article about the castle and my work, grateful for having been given the chance. My finger has healed quite ok… Read more

  • Summer Apricot Tarte and Update on Availability

    Summer Apricot Tarte and Update on Availability

    And just like that summer is here! I’ve been having an unexpected holiday in the past weeks as I broke my fingertip while doing work in the garden, really stupid, but then these things always are stupid, involved complicated surgery but didn’t hurt too bad thanks to the grand hospital staff in Vesoul. Best of… Read more

  • The Moon Within Retreat and Omelette aux Fines Herbes

    The Moon Within Retreat and Omelette aux Fines Herbes

    I’m a breakfast person, really, though I don’t get to it quite as often as I’d like, because I’m also trying to be a morning person, of the frisky, bouncy kind, which in turn I really am not (I may be frisky and bouncy but only after midnight), yet over the years I’ve gotten quite… Read more

  • Feuillete de Saint Jacques and the Trees have Turned Verdoyant over Night

    Feuillete de Saint Jacques and the Trees have Turned Verdoyant over Night

    It came upon me all of a sudden, seemingly overnight: a world of trees turned green again, lush, verdoyant full of life green and it feels as if it has never been anything else. I’m quietly preparing the house for the season. The B&B reopens on 14 May, though if the weather stays this gorgeous,… Read more

  • Et Voilà Spring and a Simple Cake

    Et Voilà Spring and a Simple Cake

    Precipitously, spring has fallen from the sky, essentially overnight, and with an explosion of yellows and purples in the garden (colours in nature seem to follow an innate order: first purples and yellows, then pinks, whites, blues, etc.). And I can’t help but be happy and content, and laughing more than I used to, and… Read more

  • Ireland

    Ireland

    This one would have been Winter at the Castle and Tipsy Damson Civet de Cerf but then I went to Ireland to lay the memory of my father to rest, or rather, to lay to rest what could have been memories. I don’t have much to say, this time. It is a beautiful country, I’ve… Read more