From our cooking class in Arles, France   Just as beautiful as the one we made at our cooking class in Provence.   Our cooking class in Arles back in March was one of the highlights of our trip to France.  The class was taught by Chef Erick Vedel and featured fresh ingredients from the [...]

Visions of sugar plums dancing in my head over this cake.     Our two weeks in France went by so fast. And I was right about all the pastries we ate. There are a couple of things we had while there that I want to try and recreate. Like the cream puffs that the [...]

Just love those little sugar snap peas!     Are you old enough to remember your mother or grandmother sitting in a chair with an apron cupped in her lap and a bowl of peas. I remember my dad’s mother doing just that and she was in a rocking chair rocking away the afternoon shelling [...]

Oh how I loved those French markets!   I snapped this picture of Swiss chard one day. A little lady was hand picking her chard probably for her dinner that night. It is hard for me to imagine (except I was there and saw it) what it would be like to shop daily for your [...]

Blue cheese and rosemary, what a combination.   Délicieux!   We had some wonderful blue cheeses while in France so I decided this would be a nice little cracker to make upon coming home. A friend made these from Ina Garten’s Paris cookbook and I loved them at first bite. Ina used Stilton in her [...]