Souped-up Garden

cooking with garden-fresh ingredients grown in an intensive southwest France urban potager; writing book reviews; traveling around & about, mostly in France; taking photographs and making art of it all

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Thursday, 6 September 2018

Autumn 2018 Southwest France Walks: Asnières-sur-Nouère

The Calm One and I have resumed hiking in our departement of Charente because as autumn approaches, conditions for country walks improve...

Thursday, 30 August 2018

Late Summer: Harvest's Lead Into Autumn & Recipes

Though The Calm One prefers his raspberries sugared and smothered with whipped cream, these fresh-from-the-garden berries are pretty good ...

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Summer Break 2018

Frenzied spring gardening has morphed into mostly watering and pulling some beets and carrots from time to time. Front garden / foregr...

Thursday, 21 June 2018

The Cool Banana: Nog, Smoothie & Agua Fresca

See those almost too-ripe-to-eat, brown-spotted bananas in your fruit bowl? Pop them in the fridge so they can get very cold. With a stick ...

Thursday, 14 June 2018

Summer Is Right Around The Corner . . .

In about a week, it will be officially summer. There has been consistent rains for the last month which has delayed garden tasks that would...

Thursday, 7 June 2018

Book Review / The Tulip by Anna Pavord

Ms Pavord's tome, coming to 439 pages, contains many intriguing and beautiful colour illustrations. Much beguiling information derived ...

Thursday, 31 May 2018

French Cheese: Comté

Ah, the confusing world of Gruyère ! It seems, and that verb is the best to use in the realm of perplexity in which such a venerable chees...

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