Les Poissonchats

Merry Christmas my friends! Read more

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

Today’s door is a very special door, as I’ve asked my friend Sarah if she wouldn’t prepare a guest entry for Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar. Sarah is a textile artist, painting Angel’s Dreams on fabrics. No 22 is meant to be a gift for you, a little preview of her upcoming collection and art… Read more

I’ve never seen the film The Phantom of the Opera as we didn’t have television when I was little and also I would never ever have been allowed to watch such a film, such a crazy film as mother called this sort, but somehow I must have picked up scenes somewhere and they stuck!  In… Read more

You know about that divine smell of making baked apples? I think it’s THE most absolutely Godliest nostalgic smell.   The one you see here in the picture is a trial I’ve baked to accompany the duck we’ll have on Christmas Eve. I baked them in my woodfired stove overnight, at very low temperature probably as… Read more

To think, I said to my husband, that Suzanne most likely stood exactly here, buying a box of nougatines, it must have been this chocolaterie, for I found the box in the attic back when we tidied up the place.  Visiting an old fashioned chocolaterie is giving me so much nostalgia, especially when it’s one… Read more