The Tomato Knife

There’s a chocolate dessert in France called a mi-cuit, which literally means “half-cooked.” When you cut into the small round cake, it oozes with dark, rich chocolate. Mi-cuit is also the nickname I’ve given our new kitchen. That doesn’t mean it’s oozing with warm dessert- far from it. In fact, for the last couple weeks [...]

Here’s one last post in my series on the Loire Valley. Now that we’ve seen where we stayed and what we saw, this one’s about what we ate. Part 4: Asparagus Invasion A primeur is a young fruit or vegetable that starts off the season. This is what we were eating during our trip in [...]

This is the third post in my series on the Loire Valley. Like this one, the last post was on a castle and the first one about a bed & breakfast. Part 3: Warning: Medieval Obsession! As many of my friends know, I’m slightly obsessed (no, much more than slightly) with medieval history. That’s surely [...]