A few of the food highlights from the past week…Before departing Mas D’Argenais we liberated a bundle of fresh figs from a tree not far from the boat. Combined with some crumbled roquefort cheese, olive oil and ground pepper these little delights made for an excellent snack. They went down well with mint-tonics, a simple [...]
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hors d’oeurves for the end of summer
Posted in 2009 season, food & drink on September 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hellem Siphon Coffee Maker
Posted in food & drink on May 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
glass-action & reverse-geography; nutty-smooth/coffee-cupped by hellem
This, like our typewriter is another one of our vide-grenier finds. We had to clean it up, sew on a new filter from cotton fabric, and fill with meth-spirits and after a few tries it was brewing excellent coffee. Thanks goes out to our coffee geek who flew in from [...]
A Cafe Literati Top 5 High-five 2-day Guide to London
Posted in books/art, food & drink, the urban traveller on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To say we are still recovering from our two days jaunting freely about London in Spring would be an understatement. We commenced with a carefully researched map in hand, we jumped on the underground to enjoy the fineries in the urban fare. Although we adored several places, if forced to pick our top 5, we [...]
Announcing ~ In France with Chef Dez ~
Posted in 2009 season, food & drink on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Craving a unique vacation for all of your senses? Come to the South of France for a week aboard Linquenda and savour a glass of wine on deck while learning culinary art techniques with Chef Dez. Your trip will include seven days of pleasure, relaxation and restoration as we cruise the gentle French waterways and [...]
chablis
Posted in 2008 season, food & drink on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
so chablis is 20 km from auxerre, which made it a 40 km return trip though the wheat fields and chardonnay vinyards. this was no problem for dianna’s 7 speed cruiser “charleston” but for me, on my father’s “wolferstan special” one speed named “elegance” (some sort of sick joke that, it’s a decrepid purple thing), [...]
real beer
Posted in food & drink on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
don’t get me wrong with good wine at four bucks a bottle it hasn’t been rough… but after four months we were experiencing a certain hankering for good ale…
then our dear friends anna, james and jules direct from the uk showed up with literally a suitcase full of beer. our thirsts were quenched.
along with our [...]
tea in lagny
Posted in food & drink, the urban traveller on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
hello again all,
so this is us right now (tuesday 10 june 2008, 3:23 pm, which would make it really friggin’ early in bc) dianna and i have cycled 18 km in the sun to lagny. we’re here because there is an excellent “salon de the” with free wifi. we’re across the pedestrian main street sitting [...]
duck confit & fish stew
Posted in 2008 season, food & drink on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
it’s been another hard week on the big canal seas…lots of wine with new friends john & suzanne and yvonne & david, visiting us from their fraser river float-homes. we first met john when his family donated their sailboat, nyon, to SALTS and j and i went to get the keys for her delivery to [...]
weeks of local wines and patisseries
Posted in 2008 season, food & drink on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
bonjour mes amies,
since our time in Nevers a week and a half ago, we have had our good friends greg, alexia and their 3 month old daughter berlin aboard. this week three out of four of berlin’s grandparents are aboard, so our baby holding time has been understandably cut-back. however, every time the grandparents leave [...]
