Star anise poached plums.

It's all about color!

Красили...

Hot Summer. Теплынь...

Первые два дня настоящего лета, жаркого с бризом и вечерним теплом.

Summertime.

We baked bread, cooked jam.

Rustic Plum Tart.

Apricot-Cherry Tart in oven.

Peach-Nectarine Tart.

Rustic Plum Tart From MyRecipes.com

A quiet evening ...

Lime and Ginger Melon Jam.

Confiture de Melon au Gingembre et Citron Vert from Clotilde Dusoulier.
It was she who...'For this English-language edition, Phaidon Press assembled a team of editors and cooks led by Clotilde Dusoulier, the food writer known for her popular blog at chocolateandzucchini.com, who had inherited her grandmother's yellowed copy of Je Sais Cuisiner. Dusoulier and her team updated a large selection of the recipes for today's cooks, expanding the instructions when necessary, reducing fat in some recipes and shortening cooking times in others. The new edition also added 200 lovely photographs.'
The first English-language edition of Je Sais Cuisiner, France's first comprehensive cookbook, originally published in 1932 I Know How to Cook , by Ginette Mathiot

Летняя наша жизнь..

Варенье. Дыня, бадьян и лемон. Melon and star anise jam.

Melon and star anise jam from Five-a-day Fruit and Vegetable Cookbook by Kate Whiteman.

Photo Session

Наконец-то выглянуло солнце!

 

'Chandos Beauty' rose in my garden.

 

Аленький цветочек.

Back home from France.

We have just arrived home after having a short break in France at Bretagne and Normandy.

...a trip to France, Normandy

One of the most beautiful mixed-style garden of France...
Le Parc Floral de Haute Bretagne
...где даже огород выглядит столь привлекательно...не знаю практично ли.


Chateau de Chaulieu- Small Renaissance Château - 16th Century.(50150 Chaulieu, France)


The City of Fougeres with its medieval castle, one of the finest fortresses in Europe, but this little town on the Brittany-Normandy border.