This is one of my favourite recipes especially since I have been living in Brittany which is famous for its seafood like oysters – huitres, lobsters – homards and scallops – coquilles Saint-Jacques. During the scallop season in winter to early spring I try to cook this dish at least once a month because nothing beats fresh scallops. The recipe itself comes from Jamie Oliver but I adapted it a bit over the years . I use red lentils because[...]
Archive for March, 2009
La Livresse is a little Café or Salon de Thé located in the Rue Georges Clemenceau, the main street of Saint Servan. It is an old Boucherie and when you enter it the first time you feel like leaving this century behind you with the doorstep, arriving in an early 1900 french Café. I can not say something about the quality of the dishes the owner and chef is serving for lunch but if they are only half as good[...]
This is a new category on this blog. I will post some french music here because there are still some really good songwriters in France. And he is one of them. His name is Bénabar and the song À la Campagne is from his new album Infréquentable. Lyrics:
Ouch! The first day in the garden after the winter is really the hardest. Did not now that the human body has so many muscles. The weather here in Brittany is now stable for almost a week and everybody around me already started working in their gardens weeks ago. So we decided to get our lazy bones out in the sunshine and started with our kitchengarden v2.0 or little Holland, as we call it now . This means compared to[...]
Last weekend we visited the Mont Saint Michel. This is a trip we usually do once or twice a year outside the tourist season. The Mont is after Versailles the second most visited site in France so you can imagine how crowded it can get. The main “problem” is that there is basically only one small street leading up the hill to the cathedral which is about 4m wide. The second possibility is the old town wall. Now in march[...]
