Burgundy's mustard sauce
Salade d'Endive sauce moutarde´, otherwise known as Chicory Salad with mustard vinaigrette. Sometimes simple things are the best - at the...
Le Treuffe for cold weather comfort
Le Treuffé is the Burgundian patois for this potato dish. It's the perfect comfort food for the Artic conditions we are having just now!...
Rhubarb Reminder
It's rhubarb time in the UK! Early varieties, pale and slim, are in the markets. When fresh fruit - yes, I know this isn't really a...
Tourte de viande
Pot-au-feu one day, tourte de viande (meat pie) the next -"waste not, want not" could be the motto of French Wine Harvest cooks. Using...
Pot-au-Feu for January!
When it is cold and grey outside we need something comforting. Something that simmers for hours, that fills the house with a good smell,...
Alsace Traditions
Even in Alsace, with its extended harvest, this year’s wine is safely in cellars. Winemakers there are beginning to take it easy....
Macaroni Cheese the French Way
Carbohydrates for cold weather! Call me old-fashioned but this is just what you need when the temperature drops. Fed to hungry...
Muscadet and Linen - Vintage Memories
Vintage memories & recipes from the Loire: PRE-WAR LIFE IN THE VINES It is hard to imagine a time when wine, now so big a part of the...
Dancing in the vines
“Vins d’Alsace. Pierre Freudenreich & Fils. De père en fils depuis 1653”. A polished brass plaque in the wall, next to an archway in the...
Choucroute for Alsace pickers
Vendanges à la carte they call it in Alsace, the most northerly of the French wine regions. The harvest is different from most other...
