Harvest starting!
Time to revisit recipesfromthefrenchwineharvest.com?
Figs in Red Wine
This quick little dish feels quite Autumnal with its spicy red wine sauce. I urge you to try it! FOR 6 - 8 PEOPLE 24 ripe figs, wiped...
Red Cabbage salad
Here's a little variation on a theme. In my Burgundy section I give a white cabbage and apple salad in a creamy dressing. In hot...
Last of the summer wine, and peaches
It's nearly the end of the season for peaches, so let's make the most of them. If you have red wine, and you have peaches - bring them...
Apricot tart - it's the moment!
Beautiful fruit in the markets and shops in Europe just now - time to make and share an apricot tart. Even if the fruit seems a little...
Back to the source
During the last year, throughout those months of isolation and shielding and lock-down (confinement in French - a good word which...
The joys of chutney!
Chutneys have not featured much in the traditional meals for the French wine harvest, but when I have cooked for a crowd it always seems...
One egg is un Oeuf?
The old joke - why do French people only boil one egg? - has resurfaced in the brilliant courtroom drama, The Trial of the Chicago 7. It...
Escalopes de dinde a la creme
Escalopes de Dinde a la creme sounds slightly luxurious to me, ideal for cheering us up. But this is a lovely, simple dish, used...
A rhubarb cake for Easter!
The way rhubarb shoots burst through the earth always takes me by surprise. Each year I think I have lost that plant. There is no sign,...
