tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post1151250395173973978..comments2024-03-28T18:57:20.920+01:00Comments on Living the life in Saint-Aignan: La Fosse « divine » at TonnerreKen Broadhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-13545682206595041102014-12-30T00:59:22.855+01:002014-12-30T00:59:22.855+01:00The composition of your third photo with the green...The composition of your third photo with the greenery and the reflections on the water could be hung in anyones room as a feature. Picture perfect KenLeon Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609891995057827081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-10391319355639379042014-12-29T19:49:36.410+01:002014-12-29T19:49:36.410+01:00What a lovely site! I have never heard of it...
T...What a lovely site! I have never heard of it...<br /><br />The cold here is still absolutely gripping; my daughter and I went into Rodez today for lunch and could hardly stand it, even though it was sunny out!Betty Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17155852272383173880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-5103558473532202502014-12-29T18:26:02.070+01:002014-12-29T18:26:02.070+01:00Lamb Hotpot and similar sheep recipes...
viz: Mutt...Lamb Hotpot and similar sheep recipes...<br />viz: Mutton Stew....<br />both these are old Anglais winter staples!Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439261142732764451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-59267626019312911812014-12-29T14:53:48.180+01:002014-12-29T14:53:48.180+01:00last winter (our first in the NC woods) it was 1 d...last winter (our first in the NC woods) it was 1 degree one morningmelindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14337254308066184912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-89915422417895473922014-12-29T14:47:09.291+01:002014-12-29T14:47:09.291+01:00There is magic in this spring. Thanks for the phot...There is magic in this spring. Thanks for the photos. The coldest weather I've experienced was in the late 70s in Cincinnati, but it only got to -20 and there was snow to deal with also. It was nineteen below in January 1962 when I took my test to get my driver's license. You don't forget such cold days.Evelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824964122794535252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-6690258589622349642014-12-29T13:58:28.769+01:002014-12-29T13:58:28.769+01:00Tim, what kind of stew do you put barley in?Tim, what kind of stew do you put barley in?Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-86506559832804079572014-12-29T13:57:51.323+01:002014-12-29T13:57:51.323+01:00Good that you had that good soup at least one time...Good that you had that good soup at least one time. Our turkey barley soup is delicious. We'll have it for lunch again tomorrow.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-83361531443379619872014-12-29T13:56:44.975+01:002014-12-29T13:56:44.975+01:00Andrew, yes, minus or negative nine centigrade (–9...Andrew, yes, minus or negative nine centigrade (–9ºC). That was the temperature on my weather widget on the Windows 7 desktop this morning. I think it is really the temperature recorded in Romorantin, which for some reason is colder than Saint-Aignan though only 25 miles east of us. Our home thermometer read –5. The lowest temperature we have recorded here over the past 12 years was –11ºC. I remember a New Year's Eve in Washington DC in about 1984 when Walt and I went out to dinner and the temperature outside was 0ºF, which is about –18C. And when I lived in Illinois, 150 miles south of Chicago, in the late 1970s, several times we had temperatures as low as –25ºF, or –32ºC. Those were the days!Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-71808960214139562972014-12-29T13:08:31.934+01:002014-12-29T13:08:31.934+01:00I have forgotten Fahrenheit now, but you must writ...I have forgotten Fahrenheit now, but you must write for your audience. Are you saying that is -9 or just 9 degrees? I really cannot imagine -9.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-12220823445488511452014-12-29T12:25:11.742+01:002014-12-29T12:25:11.742+01:00I'll remember until I die of a wonderful beef ...I'll remember until I die of a wonderful beef barley soup I had more than thirty years ago in a restaurant on Route 10 in Van Horn, Texas. Several years later, we made a point of stopping at that same restaurant in hopes of a good meal. The place had changed hands and I was really disappointed!chmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17765675930520613520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-28635972184952610272014-12-29T12:00:46.849+01:002014-12-29T12:00:46.849+01:00Ours is Orge Perlée from the Bio shop in Chateller...Ours is Orge Perlée from the Bio shop in Chatellerault...<br />but, up until today...<br />I've only ever used it in stews.<br />A standard handful has now gone in the pot'o'soup on the stove.<br />I usually use pasta as a "thick souper" ingredient.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439261142732764451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-55395098399135706322014-12-29T11:12:21.031+01:002014-12-29T11:12:21.031+01:00I should have mentioned that lamb barley soup and ...I should have mentioned that lamb barley soup and beef barley soup (both made with shanks) are really good too. And why not chicken or pintade. The barley we have is orge séchée from China via the Paris Store Asian market in Tours-Nord.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-66409526305364374312014-12-29T11:07:22.234+01:002014-12-29T11:07:22.234+01:00Tim, our own thermometer, which is on an external ...Tim, our own thermometer, which is on an external wall of the unheated garage on the north side and under a balcony, said -5. It was cold, but Callie and I had a good walk between 8 and 9 this morning.<br /><br />The turkey barley soup is not so much a recipe as an improvisation. I had poached a turkey before browning it off in the oven, so I had about three liters of well-seasoned cooking liquid. When the turkey legs, wings, thighs, and breast were cut off the frame, I simmered the carcass and any leftover bones in that liquid in the slow cooker overnight. There was my soup liquid.<br /><br />I finely diced onions, carrots, and celery stalks and added in things I had lurking in the fridge: a few chopped fresh mushrooms, some frisée lettuce that I had cooked with lardons (which went in too) — sweat all that down with butter, turkey fat, bacon fat, olive oil, or chicken fat. I dropped in one leftover supermarket tomato that I chopped up. I chopped up the turkey meat, too, that was left from other meals or pulled from the carcass after it had simmered overnight. Salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, whatever herbs or spices you like, a good handful of pearl barley, et voilà — an hour later, it's soup. It's all in the broth or stock, really, with whatever aromatic ingredients you like with the barley.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-54460833235624363532014-12-29T08:57:39.805+01:002014-12-29T08:57:39.805+01:00Possibly the most photogenic lavoir in France....?...Possibly the most photogenic lavoir in France....?<br />It is undoubtedly pretty...<br />and when you look at the darker blue colour of the water...<br />top right in the first picture...<br />undoubtedly deep!<br /><br />The machine has stopped talking to me... <br />there is no temperature out there....<br />nor wind, rain, humid-ite...<br />bleedin' batteries 'ave gorn, init?!!<br /><br />Fortunately, the big boiler controller has an external sensor...<br />so I can happily report that we are warmer than you... <br />minus eight centipedes.<br />Could you post the recipe for that turkey barley soup please, Ken....<br />never heard of such... but it sounds a good winter warmer.<br />I can follow up the pot on the stove...<br />containing "leftover" soup...<br />with yours....<br />but still made with beef...<br />there <i><b>was</b></i> rather a lot left over!Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439261142732764451noreply@blogger.com