This post has been months in the making. Literally. Those of you who know me in real life will know that patience is not one of my strong points and that I am terrible at keeping secrets so you’ll understand the enormity of this! So here goes, here are some words I never imagined I’d […]
Walking (part of) the Camino de Santiago: Navarrete to Nájera
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer, I spent 7 days walking around 120km along the Camino de Santiago, from Logroño to Burgos in Spain. This was the second leg of the Camino that I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to […]
French Fridays: Potato, feta and basil tortilla from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was a simple tortilla – a thick Spanish omelette/ frittata, typically served at room temperature. This was an easy one I made when I was in Australia last month for a quick dinner, accompanied with a salad, because I thought it would […]
No bake hazelnut vanilla energy bites
This post is sponsored by Penotti Canada. For this month’s Penotti Canada recipe, I chose to work with the Duo Penotti Hazelnut and Vanilla Spread (which contains no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and is made with sustainable ingredients). It has a really subtle hazelnut flavour and is fairly sweet and I enjoyed it sparingly […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Brown Butter Peach Tourte
This week, the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a peach pie of the best kind. Made with Dorie’s sweet tart dough, this pie/ tourte is filled with fresh peaches that have spent some time in some brown butter (to give them a lovely nutty flavour). SO good, especially now when peaches […]
Walking (part of) the Camino de Santiago: Logroño to Navarrete
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer, I spent 7 days walking around 120km along the Camino de Santiago, from Logroño to Burgos in Spain. This was the second leg of the Camino that I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to […]
French Fridays: Faking and Making it in France
For today’s French Fridays post, a book about expat life in France with a difference. Making it in France is the sequel to Karen Bates’ first book Faking it in France. Karen and her husband Terry (who hail from the UK) lived in Normandy for over a decade and these two books tell their tale. […]
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