It’s been a while since I shared a French Friday post but today I’ve got a favourite French recipe to welcome spring – financiers! This version has lemon and poppy seeds, so it’s a familiar flavour in bite-sized form! I love the brightness of lemon in these early spring days! What is a financier? Essentially … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! I’m THRILLED to be sharing this memoir today by a good friend and inspriring-all-round-human. Jane Bertch’s The French Ingredient is a story I always knew was going to be told, as soon as I walked through the doors of the fabulous La Cuisine Paris cooking school back in 2011 (of … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! I’ve got a feel-good French read for you today by one of my favourite authors – Gillian Harvey’s The Bordeaux Books Club! From the publisher: Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! Excited to be bringing you a delightful escapist read set in France this week by Gillian Harvey, who I wrote about earlier this year for one of my #summerreads picks, One French Summer. Harvey is an author and freelance writer living in France whose books are reliable good reads, fun, … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! Today I have a beauty of a book to share that will appeal to both adults and children. And, not that I’m at all thinking about the holidays (though, ahem, hello some folks who put up their holiday decorationa alreadybut it WOULD make an excellent gift for the Francophiles in … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! Coming at you this week with a fabulous read – a beautifully written historical fiction novel set in before, during and after World War II. From the publisher: Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there … Read more