50g butter 1 tbsp olive oil 1kg onion, halved and thinly sliced 1 tsp sugar 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 2 tbsp plain flour 250ml dry white wine 1.3l hot strongly-flavoured beef stock 4-8 slices French bread (depending on size) 140g gruyère, finely grated Method Melt 50g butter with 1 tbsp olive oil in a…
We’re up for any cause to celebrate at the chateau and with some of our closest friends being American’s thanksgiving is a fabulous celebration.
Each year we spend a month in Australia for our annual ‘bootcamp’. It’s a month on the stunning Sunshine Coast of healthy eating, exercise, alcohol free & goal setting which sets us up for the new year. We share the cooking and delight in finding new recipes that the other likes. This simple soup has…
In a fortunate coincidence my sister and her family moved to Paris at exactly the same time we did. On Sunday mornings my three little nieces would plant themselves at the kitchen table eagerly awaiting the arrival of their crepes off the hotplate. Having trained at Le Cordon Blue her crepes were a family weekend…
When we had family stay with us in Paris one of the things we most loved to do was to go to the Bastille markets on a Sunday together and buy all the ingredients for this classic French dish. We’d spend the afternoon making it together in our tiny Parisienne kitchen and the hearty classic…
This is truly one of my favourite quick meals at the chateau! My gorgeous friend Sangeetha first whipped this rustic delight up for me when I arrived delirious in London after a 30+ hour flight from Australia. We needed to be up at 4am the next day to catch a flight to ? and neither…
Just before we moved to the Chateau in March of 2020 the world was gripped by the Corona Virus. With the chateau move impending I was determined to keep my immune system strong and this green pasta was on high rotation in the little kitchen of our Paris apartment. 2 garlic cloves, finely grated zest…
When I first moved to Paris in I took French classes at La Sorbonne and quickly became life long friends with a tall Serbian with a wicked sense of humor … meet Vanja and his Bad Ass Tea!
