Nothing says France like ‘Tarte au Citron’ …and there’s a way the French make it that gives it that certain je ne sais quoi! To my mind (and, more importantly, my taste buds) it’s all down to using French flour (I still have a load that I smuggled over – Read More
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Around the World in 80 Bakes: Gâteau Rocamadour
Christmas week and I should be in France visiting Papa Blue. However, there’s this thing called Covid which means that travels are temporarily verboten. So, what to do when I need the taste of the Corrèze? Bake a gâteau aux noix of course! Papa Blue lives in proper walnut country, Read More
Les Grottes de Lacave
Easter Sunday. While the UK was basking in freak heatwave conditions, I was back in France and dodging rain showers. Perfect conditions, then, for a Jules Vernes-esque adventure… The Lot département is blessed with a great number of grottes (natural caves) and gouffres (chasms/abbysses), the most famous being the Gouffre Read More
The Devil’s Bridge & Other Tales from France…
I was back in France last weekend to visit Papa Blue, and, as is now the custom, went in search of a few more historical treasures of the Corrèze and Lot departments. My planned visits (to Argentat and Mercœur) were curtailed by le crachin – persistent mizzly rain that only cleared Read More