L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Crayfish and Pomelo Spring Salad

    Crayfish and Pomelo Spring Salad

    Despite a weatherwise rotten week with, you wouldn’t believe it, snow, the first signs of spring are undeniably here. I’ve spent much time outside in the park, getting everything ready, pruning and cutting down dead branches. Now it all looks strangely empty except for the daffs that I’ve planted last autumn. March, I admit, is Read more

  • Winter at the Castle

    Winter at the Castle

    I’ve come to quite look forward to these quarterly, seasonal updates on what happens at the castle, naturally hoping you like reading them as much as I do like writing them. We only had a little snow this year but it was magical. Now with the castle closed for visits until spring, I cook for Read more

  • The Chandeleur

    The Chandeleur

    I took a little time off instagram in the month of January, it was really nice but now I feel glad and happy to pick up on posting and checking in with my favourite fellows, I’ve really missed it! Incidentally, the day of my instagram return also was the French chandeleur, the day we celebrate Read more

  • The January Cake and The New Year is a Nine

    The January Cake and The New Year is a Nine

    The New Year is a nine, now I’m not overly relying on it but numerology is an interesting playground. Accordingly it means a lot and everything and commonly is referred to completion and fulfilment. Now did you know that any number multiplied by nine which then is reduced to a one-digit number will give a Read more

  • #24 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Merry Christmas

    #24 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas my friends! Read more

  • #23 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – The Buche de Noel

    #23 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – The Buche de Noel

    The forever Buche de Noel. It’s quite a French thing, the Buche de Noel. For all the time I’ve been in France we’re always having a Buche de Noel for Christmas dessert, I usually make it myself, exceptionally, if I’m really just too busy, I resort to the local bakery. The tradition isn’t super seasoned, Read more