Harvest is over - party on!
Throughout France the last load of grapes of the harvest is celebrated by decorating the tractors with flowers and branches from the...
Lamb, figs, grapes, walnuts, red wine - a great combination!
I just want to remind you about this wonderful combination of flavours, while all the ingredients are in season. I have posted this...
Baked apples Burgundian style
Quick, delicious, seasonal - this is the perfect Wine Harvest dessert. The recipe was given to me by Marie-Therese Meurgey who was...
Salade Vigneronne
In France we have been suffering a heat wave. The elderly and those with infants have been warned on radio about the effects of “Le...
French Wine Harvest - not long now!
Imagine having to turn yourself into a restaurant manager and chef rolled into one! This is what wine harvest cooks do. Many of them go...
Aioli!
Aïoli is the name of both a sauce and the dish which it accompanies. Accompanies is perhaps the wrong word. The sauce, for many, is the...
Roast Guinea-fowl with figs in a cream sauce
This lovely dish is one of my personal favourites. The recipe was given me, when I was researching in Bordeaux many years ago, by...
Apricot Tart + desert wine = a winner!
Apricots, gold tinged with pink, massed on market stalls - how can one resist? Make jam and chutney, make ice-cream, and especially,...
Courgettes and cheese in a great gratin
Gratins are quintessential Wine Harvest food. Good value ingredients come together to make something deliciously sustaining with results...
Tomatoes, stuffed - nursery food for grown-ups!
Tomatoes are coming into their glorious own in Europe just now. All shapes and sizes, Heritage, or just old-fashioned, some in quite...
