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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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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. 5th June. Day 26 of déconfinement.
The bad news this morning is that I can’t bend down far enough to put my socks on. The good news is – I don’t have a headache. Hooray!
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Recipes from Le Tasting Room’s kitchen – roasted carrot, tarragon and ricotta tart
I made this tart last night for our first dinner in the garden and it was so lovely that I thought I’d give you the recipe.
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Life in the Loire on lock-down. 7th April. Day twenty four.
My yesterday’s bread was not voted the favourite so far it has to be said. It rose well and has great flavour but seems a bit dry.
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Life in the Loire on lock-down. Monday 23rd March. Day nine.
Pesto (our cat) was successful hunting and caught a chaffinch. She’s a useless hunter normally so that little bird must have been really caught off guard.
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Recipes from Le Tasting Room’s kitchen – chicken cooked with Riesling, thyme and lardons
It’s been quite chilly recently so the slow cooked casseroles and stews have started appearing on our dinner table more often.
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Recipes from Le Tasting Room’s kitchen – classic Boeuf Bourgignon
There’s something very comforting about the aroma of a delicious Boeuf Bourgignon bubbling away gently in the oven. Wafts of wine, thyme and orange.
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Wine education – burying the cow’s horn. What’s that all about?
The bousse de corne is one of the most important preparations used in bio-dynamic viticulture and is applied to the vineyard in Spring and Autumn.
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Wine education – residual sugar in wine
Wine professionals often talk about residual sugar in wine but the average wine drinker is a little unclear about what this term actually means.
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Recipes from Le Tasting Room’s kitchen – rustic fruit tart
This tart is so easy and can be made using practically any seasonal fruit. I used small purple plums but use apricots, greengages or apples.
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Recipes from Le Tasting Room’s kitchen – grilled figs with orange, thyme and pomegrante molasses
I absolutely love figs and this is one of my favourite recipes so I was excited to see beautiful fresh purple ones at the market this week.
