Early November 2018, I decided for a last minute day-trip to Avignon. From Nice, it is a three and a half hours train ride with TGV (one way), but with a good book, a camera and a small picnic basket, I didn’t mind the long return journey, though I must say I had a pretty…
Tag: Provence
Daube Niçoise
Niçoise Beef Stew. That’s the best translation I can come up with, even though Daube Niçoise, our special local regional dish name, is nowadays making its way through the world. Slightly exaggerating, but this is what we do around here, for fun. I read that the dish is actually more frequently acknowledged as Daube Provençale…
A chic gateway in Aix-en-Provence, France
It had been seventeen years since I left Aix-en-Provence, this small town near Marseille where I first began University, 20 years ago. Ouch! That hurt. I can’t believe how time flew so fast, it seems that it was just yesterday that at the age of 17yo I started my adult life away from home. I…
Roast Beef with Garlic and Herbs
This weekend, I found out how easy it is to prepare and cook Roast Beef. I always had thought this operation required some kind of high-end expertise, but it’s actually the complete opposite. One just needs to calculate the right roasting time according to the weight of the piece of meat. That is all. Oven temperature…
Apt, Gordes and Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Provence, France
When I visited Luberon region in September 2014, my friends and I went first to visit the famous Provençal Colorado of Rustrel, which I wrote about when I just started this blog. The last day of the weekend, we drove around throughout the day and went from one lovely Provence village to the next, before going back to Nice….
Quenelles à la Provençale
Fancy typical French food with a double-twist? Try my Quenelles à la Provençale. They are a mix of traditional quenelles from Lyon, with a delicious vegetables, herbs and olives tomato sauce from the southern region of Provence. That’s surprisingly one of the first dishes I created when I came back to France in 2010 after…
Provençal Colorado of Rustrel, Luberon, France
In the end of September 2014, my friends and I decided to go away for the weekend and enjoy our beautiful extended region, known worldwide under the name of Provence. The region is actually subdivided in several areas, one of which is called Luberon, where we went. It’s about a three hours drive from Nice,…
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