Tagged with "food and wine"
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Lock-down take 2. Day 17. 15th November 2020.
Sunday. A day of rest and relaxation. At least that’s what is should be. We do try to have some kind of routine.
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Lock-down take 2. Day 16. 14th November.
Returned to the classics today with a good old fashioned boeuf Bourgignon.
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Lockdown take 2. Day 14. 12 November 2020.
Wow! Day 14 of lock-down take 2 already. Doesn’t time fly when you have nothing to do. Actually, I do have things to do this week!
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Lock-down take 2. Day 9. 7th November.
Woke up with a thundering headache this morning. That’ll be the sulphites in the wine you drank last night then! No! It won’t be that but…
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Wine education – what is a cépage teinturier
Teint is a French word and it means tint, dye, stain. A cépage teinturier is a grape variety that stains, dyes or tints. So what makes that different?
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Life in the Loire after lock-down. 21st May. Day 11 of déconfinement.
Nigel had a dream last night. A nightmare in fact. Sandwiches were not allowed anymore. They were forbidden. Can you imagine? No sandwiches?
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Life in the Loire on lock-down. 27th April. Day forty four.
What better way to start the day than with some hot buttered toast and local honey from your friend’s hives (or should I say bees?).
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Life in the Loire on lock-down. 20th April. Day thirty seven.
I lay in bed listening to the blackbird singing loudly in the garden this morning. He sits on the top of our gate post. A little treat to start the day.
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Life in the Loire on lock-down. 14th April. Day thirty one.
So, confinement has been extended until May 11th. After that, (if all goes to plan), there’ll be a progressive reopening of nuseries, schools and colleges.
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Christmas Canapés
Feeling rather christmassy after a lovely morning spent at Les Peupliers, a lovely bed and breakfast near Saumur run by Tracey and Mike Wilke. Mike is a chef and runs cookery courses from their charming property near Saumur.