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Raspberry Sorbet Recipe

Summer time in France is magical with long days, alfresco dining and long beach rambles. It's also the perfect season to enjoy an ice cold sorbet. So with summer just around the corner here's a mouth-watering raspberry sorbet recipe for you.

Raspberry Sorbet Recipe

This sorbet brings out the sweet, tart flavour of local raspberries.

You can make a sorbet with any other summer fruit (peaches, nectarines, strawberries, melons etc) by substituting the same quantity of fruit for the raspberries. Don’t forget to add the lemon juice regardless of the fruit you choose, because it highlights the fresh fruit flavour. You will need an ice cream maker for this recipe.

French Béarnaise Sauce Recipe

Béarnaise Sauce Recipe

This Béarnaise sauce recipe goes well with fish, chicken or vegetable but it seems to naturally accompany steak best of all. You'll often get a little dish of homemade béarnaise sauce on the side when you order steak or chicken at a French café, so I thought you'd like to try this elegant version of béarnaise sauce. It's the result of trying a few different recipes and tweaking it to suit my cooking style.

Tapenade Recipe

Sitting at a cafe in Uzès, with a local cat for company, eating tapenade smeared on a fresh baguette with a cool glass of wine, is one of the sweetest memories I have of my time in the picturesque Provincial town of Uzès.

After spending the morning wandering around market stalls taste testing local cheese, smoked sausage and buying bed linens for our home, I found a seat in the sun and ordered a snack of tapenade. I love olives, black more than green, and add them to my portion of salads and pasta dishes. Not everyone loves olives in my home, especially my husband, who gets physically unwell after eating them. So tapenade is one of my indulgent snacks when holidaying or travelling on my own - especially when in France!

Gratin Dauphinois Recipe

Just the other day I cooked gratin dauphinois as part of our New Year's Eve dinner as we celebrated with family and a bunch of friends. We welcomed in the new year with amongst other things, French martinis, baked Camembert infused with rosemary, slow roast pork with vegetables and gratin dauphinois and a 'to-die-for' tarte au citron. Food links people and events together and this New Year's Eve was no exception for me.

Realising that many of the dishes I cooked have recipes on the blog available for you, but that I'd not shared a recipe on how to cook gratin dauphinois already, I thought it high-time that this easy classic French dish got its own post. Also, for all of you who messaged and emailed me asking for the recipe after our Facebook and Instagram New Year's Eve posts, here it is...

Brioche Recipe

Brioche is a staple pastry in France. Eaten at breakfast, midday and for a snack at any time of the day, it's pretty much eaten by someone somewhere all day in France! Half cake, half bread, brioche is loved the country over for its buttery softness. Sold in boulangeries, supermarchés and markets, it's certainly not difficult to find in France.

You'll find brioche buns, normal and mini sized; loaves, in different shapes and sizes; and fancy plaited styles in most bakeries.

Croque Monsieur Recipe

When you think of a French café do you also think of the classic French snack, a croque-monsieur? A croque monsieur is essentially a grilled cheese sandwich, but when eaten in Paris, it seems to take on an almost mystical quality. Read about this classic and get croque monsieur recipe.

Maybe it’s the ambience of the charming bistro chairs and table, the crisply dressed waiter, or the view along the boulevard of boutiques and Parisians getting on with their day, that transforms this simple food into a French speciality.

October is National Dessert Month

October is National Dessert Month

A whole month celebrating cakes, cookies, pies, tartes, flans and ice-cream sounds amazing doesn't it. Well, that's what we can all do for the whole month of October because October is National Dessert Month.

Of course, celebrating National Dessert Month is rather easy when you live in France because small towns and sometimes even little villages, will have their own boulangerie with tempting desserts to choose from, and when we talk about France's large cities, well the choice of pâtisseries is almost endless!

Saint-Émilion Grape Harvest Festival

Saint-Émilion Grape Harvest Festival

Saint-Émilion is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Southwestern France. It's in a region of wine hills steeped in wine making history that is still relevant today. Saint-Émilion is one of those stunning medieval cities that France is well known for and it's conveniently located at the crossroads of Bordeaux, Saintonge and Périgord. I mean, how more perfect could the town's location be for those of us that like to explore the very best of France! Saint-Émilion is also a UNESCO World Heritage.

Today we're sharing some information about Saint-Émilion and its famous grape harvest festival, Fête des Vendanges, which is currently on right now.

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Raspberry Sorbet Recipe

Raspberry Sorbet Recipe

French Béarnaise Sauce Recipe

Béarnaise Sauce Recipe

Tapenade Recipe

Tapenade Recipe

Gratin Dauphinois Recipe

Gratin Dauphinois Recipe

Brioche Recipe

Brioche Recipe

Croque Monsieur Recipe

Croque Monsieur Recipe

October is National Dessert Month

October is National Dessert Month

Saint-Émilion Grape Harvest Festival

Saint-Émilion Grape Harvest Festival

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