I spent a week with my wonderful parents, lovely sister (Claire) and gorgeous 7 month old nephew (Ben), in a beautiful house in south west France. It was a very chilled out holiday, although Claire and i managed to fit in some running, lots of swimming (very cold pool) and a little bit of yoga to start the day. We visited food markets, Bergerac, St Emilion (where we had a lovely lunch here and enjoyed some wine tasting) but mainly hung out at the house, being entertained by Ben, preparing nice food and drinking good wine.
The Dordogne
Lovely food market
Stopping for refreshments
The house had a few cookery books which we flicked through for inspiration, this being my favourite and I might have to get my own battered copy now...
Home made tortilla
Tarte Noir from the Patisserie
Monsieur Cyrano
It was so lovely spending quality time with my family and a week wasn't really long enough. But there's always next year...
Those tomatoes so full of colour.
ReplyDeleteThese pictures are wonderful. France is just lovely. This is my first visit to your blog - it's really great and very inspiring.
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Lucie
http://cookingatmarystow.blogspot.com/
I love your photos - makes we want to go to France NOW!
ReplyDeleteLove the market and and the photo of the chalked menu.
Hi Mel - I can't tell you how delicious all the fruit and vegetables were over there and I just loved the different coloured tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteLucie - thank you for your lovely comment! I am drooling over all the lovely cakes on your blog.
Ms Baglady - thank you! My Dad thought I was mad taking photos of menus and food, he was only interested in the 200 or so pics I took of my nephew!
I'm so envious! What wonderful memories to have to draw from the "good memory safe". It sounds like a wonderful time...and wonderful trip. Beautiful photos. I have been to France several times - it's a beautiful country, with delicious food. I can taste those wonderful pastries, the wonderful food.
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