I was watching a replay of Masterchef last night. Three contestants were fighting to avoid elimination. The challenge: cooking a multiple colored layer cake in 3.5 hours! Waouh! I don’t doubt the cake will be nice and tasty at the end, but who’s got time to cook a desert like that? I love cooking and…
If you didn’t know it already, all french nouns are either ” feminine” or “masculine”. For anglosaxons this can be tricky. It matters as feminine nouns will be preceded by “la” or “une” and masculine nouns by “le” or “un”. To help out here is a tip: usually feminine nouns will end with the sound…
La Provence, cultural région of the South-East of France, is after Paris, the most visited place in France. Often associated with the movies Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, endless fields of lavender and olive trees, picturesque villages and towns such as Aix en Provence, Avignon and Arles, Provence has been the home and…
It is a very simple and delicious recipe and you just need 5 minutes to prepare it!It is a great side dish with fish, chicken, roast beef and even a salad.
Pau, (pronounced Poe), capital of the Bearn region, has a dream location: a couple of hours away (with the highway) from Bordeaux and Toulouse, the biggest towns of the South-West region, 1h30 away for the Atlantic Coast and the resort town of Biarritz and a little hour from the Pyrenees numerous valleys and the Spanish…
Ok, it is a bit exaggerated, but very funny! French stereotypes are still very thick skinned. Will you be tempted to add anything else in this list? Bon d’accord, c’est un peu exagéré, mais c’est tout de même très marrant! Les stéréotypes Français ont décidemment la peau dure ! Et vous, que rajouteriez-vous à cette…
What a great art exhibition in the middle of Bordeaux! C’est magnifique!
