L’Art de Bien Manger

  • The Birthday Cake

    The Birthday Cake

    My husband celebrated his birthday last week, it’s a very good date as it never rains on his birthday, and dinner was in the garden and essentially consisted of the birthday cake I made for him and champagne. Very Marie Antoinettesy. Now I won’t go into the trouble of writing out the recipe for you Read more

  • Two Retreats Added for 2024!

    Two Retreats Added for 2024!

    Here we are, high summer, the moisson, the harvest of the grain, already in full swing. What a couple of weeks ago still were silvery green fields now has turned into a golden expanse, golden harvested fields and the blue blue sky flocked with cotton candy clouds. It is warm and we eat a lot Read more

  • A Star Fell from the Sky

    A Star Fell from the Sky

    A star fell from the sky and ended up in our old castle tower, right in the top room, the one with the terrific view.  When we moved to the castle about eighteen months ago we decided to dedicate the 11th century keep to hosting, with the medieval kitchen on the ground floor, where together Read more

  • Dinner lately

    Dinner lately

    The recent dinner menu includes a variety of salads such as couscous and tuna along with boiled eggs, goats cheese, and charcuterie. For hot summer evenings, rosé is preferred, otherwise, an aged chardonnay is enjoyed. The writer is busy with a new guest room and social events, and shares the recipes for the salads. …… Read more

  • Castle Update and Joghurt Tarte

    Castle Update and Joghurt Tarte

    Its a rotten year with all that weather and all that vegetable going to rot and mould in the quince trees and the farmer across the river has given up the one field that’s closest to the river to ducks and swans, it does look nice for so now we also have a pond. And Read more

  • How to Croissant

    How to Croissant

    Now before we get to the how-to – did you know that the croissant actually has not been invented by the French? I figure that is a rather inconvenient truth! Indeed the croissant was invented in Vienna, after sucessfully pushing back Ottoman advances on the city. It was the bakers who alerted every body about Read more