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Chez Loulou

Articles on cheese, moving to and living in France and the costs of living in France, also cheese.

From Chez Loulou

Chez Loulou began in January 2006 because I wanted to give others a glimpse into our life in this beautiful little corner of France. It includes stories about the delicious food and wine from the Languedoc-Roussillon region and France in general, photos, photos and more photos of the stunning scenery, travel experiences around Europe, recipes of my favorite sweet and savory dishes and the ever-present challenge of French bureaucracy.

It also includes cheese. Lots of cheese! In April of 2007 I started a project to taste each and every French cheese available in France. Some say there are around 600 while others say there are over 1000. I have my work cut out for me.

Rosies savoury bread and butter pudding.

This could be called and English breakfast bread and butter pudding. As I posted on my last posting you don't have to stick to my recipe here, have a look in the fridge and see what you can use. Slightly different to a sweet pudding, no sugar and less milk, I've added an extra egg and crème fraiche to give it more of an omelette taste.

350ml milk
3 good tablespoons crème fraiche
5 eggs
Enough bread to cover an oven proof dish twice
Butter
Black pudding
Bacon
Mushrooms
1 Onion
1 Courgettes
Emmenthal cheese grated.


Chop the onions and fry slowly.

Slice mushrooms, black pudding,
bacon and courgettes and fry all together.

Butter bread both sides and put a layer in a oven proof dish, spread the fried meat and vegetables over the bread , season and put another layer of the bread on top.

Mix together the milk, crème fraiche and eggs and pour over the bread,
Sprinkle grated Emmenthal cheese over the top.
Bake at 200c till golden brown about 15 mins.

Rosies Bread and butter pudding

Usually, once a week a buy bread for the animals called Pain Dur, Hard Bread, Normally I but from the bread shops, I get a bag of stale baguettes and other breads, I grind a couple down for bread crumbs for use in the kitchen, the rest I feed to the chickens, ducks and turkeys. Sometimes I buy from the supermarket, now this can be a mixed load of bread stuffs, occasionally pain au chocolate, croissants and Swiss fruit cakes, the load could include fruit cakes and grain breads as well, the beauty of the supermarket breads is that they are normally in date. Today I bought a bag of bread from Intermarche, nearly all sliced loafs and dated 25th August, today is the 23rd, so I'm making bread puddings, 1 sweet and 1 savoury. I've also put 4 loafs in the freezer for another day, the rest in the animal feed store.

Just because you don't have all the ingredients listed here shouldn't necessarily stop you from cooking this, this recipe calls for sultanas and dates, after it was cooked I realised I had a couple of bananas, I would have liked now to have done banana and date, maybe you could try cooking that. Let me know how it turns out.

Ok, glass of wine in hand, the recipe;

Sliced bread (enough to put 3 layers in your dish.)
Butter for spreading
Seedless dates, chopped
Raisins and sultanas
4 eggs
450ml milk
2 tablespoons sugar
Vanilla essence
Ground hazelnuts.


Butter bread both sides, I keep the crusts on (according to my mother keeps your hair curly), remove stones from dates and chop.

Put a layer of the buttered bread in an oven proof dish, spread the dates over the bread, then put on another layer of bread and put sultanas and raisins on top of this.
Cover with last of the bread.

Beat eggs, sugar and milk together, add vanilla and pour over your pudding, pressing the bread down to help soak up the milk, its important the top layer gets some of the milk, add more milk if necessary. sprinkle with hazelnuts and a little sugar and bake, for about 15 mins till golden brown at 200c.

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A man holding his chopper, shiny helmet.

Intermarche Redon, don't now how but a glass panel had been broken. the pompiers were called in to take out the rest of the glass, sorry I've got no close ups, click on each picture to get a better view.

Goodbye ponies

DIY

After 5 yrs of drafts coming from the gap under a single glazed door I've finally got a new one, I was a little concerned as to how UPVC would look on my house, but I think its OK, if I had the stones on show maybe not, but because the house is rendered I think I can get away with it. Now over the next couple of months I want to change the rest.




Pauls just got to fill the gap in above the door.

New cook books

I think it must be that your approach to food. It sounds odd. Unfortunately it is odd. BUT only because the vast majority of people (particularly here in the UK) are such nerds about food and most are quite incapable of cooking anything. This is why we substitute this almost total lack of cooking with looking at other people like Jamie Oliver cooking for us on television as a substitute for actually doing it ourselves.

How pathetic is that !
Taken from Jamie Oliver's website, read the rest of the article here

I've ordered four new books.









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Jane Fernley Whittingstall is the mother of Hugh and her website is the goodgranny.com a site for by Grand Parents for Grandparents.