Mardi Michels 
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
This post is sponsored by Gay Lea. For this month’s Gay Lea post, we’re talking about “Farm to Table”. Appropriate really since Gay Lea is a Canadian dairy products co-operative owned by over 1,200 farmers. I don’t often get to visit a farm but I do try to do the next best thing and that’s … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was Graham Cracker Cookies. Dorie says: It only takes a tiny nibble to know that these are very special graham cookies. They’re not exactly like the packaged cookies (they’re decidedly better), but they have that particular graham cracker texture — both crisp and crumbly. They’re pleasantly brittle (the effect … Read more