L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Apple Season in the Domfrontais

    Apple Season in the Domfrontais

    I have been tidying up some photographs lately and stumbled across these and realised I never really shared them here. I took them during a long ago road trip through France, and as this year is sort of zilch traveling I thought why not write some armchair travel story picture book. We discovered the Domfrontais Read more

  • Et Voilà a Glimpse of our Home-to-be

    Et Voilà a Glimpse of our Home-to-be

    There’s these moments in life, when you just know, when you just know exactly that this is it, without any reasoning and rumination at 3 am, beyond any doubt. So, driving up to the hamlet for the first time, in a way, I joked we just did the site visit with the real estate out Read more

  • Croute aux Champignons

    Croute aux Champignons

    What I like about autumn: soaking up the last of the days sun rays with my back against the warm wall of the house; listening to the wind howling outside while I’m writing; first fondue of the season; afternoon walks through the meadows and being home just in time before the rain; candlelight; moving the Read more

  • An Afternoon in Plombières les Bains

    An Afternoon in Plombières les Bains

    Plombières les Bains, well, is not a real place somehow. It’s something from a film perhaps, or a book, from a exquisitely dark story about when people dressed properly and entertained polite conversation while delighting in nightly stabbings and poisoned champagne. Belladonna. You know those long thin daggers that look like luxurious letter knives, hidden Read more

  • Salicorne with fresh Shrimps

    Salicorne with fresh Shrimps

    I made salicorne spaghetti with garden tomatoes and shrimps the other day, oh so delicious! And probably ever so incredibly healthy, I’ve written up the recipe for you further down. Autumn has definitely arrived out here, and strong winds and rain are sweeping over the land. It still is very green though and only in Read more

  • My Village

    My Village

    Yesterday I took a stroll through my village soaking up all the warmth and balm of those last days of summer. I was with my camera and just took in what I saw, the magic of every day life. It is raining now outside and already the shift is palpable, our cats are lounging inside Read more