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Hello everyone, France did not leave me empty handed. I found fields full of poppies, grass with beautiful shades of green and cherry trees carrying bright fruit. I found back the French countryside I love so much. We’ve just returned to the States. After an amazing trip, being able to see Irish and French family [...]

The church bells rang four o’clock. The afternoon felt warm, certainly less cool than some days we’d had in May. “Bing bang!” Lulu exclaimed with a smile. She was already used to the cyclical pattern of the church bells in the village. No matter the time of day. One o’clock. One thirty. Two o’clock….I pulled [...]

“Un pour Lulu, un pour maman, one for Lulu, one for mummy, ” I was humming with one hand fumbling through a colander filled with fresh peas while the other was cracking the pods open to toss one pea in a bowl, one inside my mouth and Lulu’s. Rhythmically. Lulu was making faint giggling noises, [...]

Pommes de terre en robe des champs with yogurt sauce One of the things that I clearly inherited from my father is his love and attachment à la terre, the soil. And Nature. It does not come as an accident. He was raised on a farm, and his summers were filled with afternoons spent to [...]

The tart. Maybe you’ll wonder what happened to it. I had one second. Two, if I was lucky. Until the tart was gone. And I didn’t have time to photograph much of it. That was Lulu. Stealing the miniature apricot tart I had especially baked for her–while I baked larger ones for us. It was [...]