L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Kouglouf in a New House

    Kouglouf in a New House

    A new chapter. We have left our old home on New Year’s Eve to make a new one. Temporary. It’s just a stone’s throw away, now sitting in my new study, which had always been called the Boudoir, and so I will call it the Boudoir too, going forward, so now sitting in my Boudoir… Read more

  • Orange Cake

    Orange Cake

    It’s this time of the year again, fir boughs and red ribbons and twinkly stars. But not just. December also means the first oranges of the season, impatiently I have been waiting for them to make their appearance on the weekly market. Oranges that are picked when they’re ripe, full of sun and sea breeze,… Read more

  • Workshops 2022

    Workshops 2022

    It is a cold misty morning while I type these lines and the sun is just about to pierce through the soft veil hovering over the river. Beautiful gold leaves embellish the rich green of the hazel tree in front of my window and the vines have turned into flaming red hues. It’s autumn. The… Read more

  • Chocolate Birthday Cake

    Chocolate Birthday Cake

    A soft breeze makes the summer curtains gently sway, outside the distant noise of a lawn mower and a bee flying by the wide open doors to my balcony. Summer has come, and later I will take a dip into the river before night falls and strange creatures surface to play and hunt.  But first… Read more

  • A Very Rainy Cherry Season

    A Very Rainy Cherry Season

    So, cherry season is here, and that means cherry cake! This time I baked a super soft cherry bundt cake, full of flavour and juicy cherries. And a dash of Kirsch, cherry brandy, from the neighbourhood town Fougerolles, they’re famous for it.  Time flies and I am rather busy writing the book, photographing and recipe… Read more

  • Wild Garlic Quiche and A Book

    Wild Garlic Quiche and A Book

    For weeks I have been wanting to write you down the recipe for this simple wild garlic quiche, yet somehow I always did other stuff first. But now, here I am, at my desk with a glass of wine, the evening is slowly drawing in and outside the wind tussles the fresh growth on the… Read more