Recent Content by Mrs Redboots

Good evening from Chalezeule, just outside Besançon. My mother used to bottle tomatoes, years ago. I'm sure there are plenty of how-to videos on YouTube. What I want to know is can one do anything with green walnuts? There are loads of windfalls at the campsite here, and I am sure my mother...

Good evening from St-Etienne-du-Bois. We have left the Savoie now, and are drifting slowly home, but still, for today, within sight of the mountains. The weather is most peculiar - wet one day, lovely the next. Actually, this morning was nice after a wet start, but we have been heavily rained on...

Good evening from Aix-les-Bains. Today has been an up-and-down sort of day; I did go for a most enjoyable walk, though, along the lake and back through a wooded park beside a stream. Breakfast was - oh help, can't remember! Yes I can; it was coddled eggs with a bit of fresh baguette and...

And I third it!

Sorry, can't help with the gardening problems. I seem to remember my parents had blackfly on the broad beans, but I have no idea what, if anything, they did about it! I've never had a garden, other than the communal gardens of our London flat. Anyway, good evening from Albertville on what has...

My mother used to make a trout paté with leftover cold trout, cream cheese and a spot of tomato paste for colouring. We infuriated her by calling it "fishpaste", but then she took to calling it that herself. She made a lot of patés of one kind or another, and people said "aren't you clever!"...

Good evening - still at Tangines. Breakfast was fried eggs with a bit of lovely fresh baguette and Boursin, and I had another bit with butter and jam. Lunch was out, after a very long and very tiring and not at all enjoyable hike in the mountains - the restaurant is at the start of the various...

Still in the Alps. Breakfast was scrambled egg on wholemeal toast, a tiny slice of walnut bread with peanut butter, and fruit. Lunch was bread and cheese with olives, cherry tomatoes and quinoa salad, followed by caramel Viennetta with a little cream. Supper was filled pasta with home-made...

@Annb, the curry sounds delicious! I'm glad it's getting colder in the UK - still very warm here, although there was one morning we had to give the heating a blast. Fortunately it wasn't cold this morning, as the hot water didn't come on properly - the gas cylinder ran out - and our showers were...

Good evening from Sevrier, near Annecy. Breakfast was a boiled egg with a bit of fresh baguette spread with paté, and followed by a pear. Lunch was another bit of baguette with some bacon and cream cheese, and I gave the top half of my "tartine" to my husband, as I was full! Followed by a...

Good evening from Bourg-en-Bresse. Thank you for your good wishes! My finger is fine again now - a little bruised, but I've had worse - and I slept off the shock. I have a flu jab booked for when we get back - the 21st, I think - and join the ranks of those hoping it is not a side-effecty one...

Good evening from Plombieres-les-Dijon. No exercise today except walking round Lidl, as, getting out of the car to help my husband put air in our tyres, I caught the little finger of my left hand in the square bit of the door frame where the latch goes in. I thought at first I'd broken it, but...

Good evening from Chalons-en-Champagne, previously known, of course, as Chalons-sur-Marne. Breakfast was scrambled eggs on one slice of seeded sourdough toast (I followed a hack from Sorted Food and stirred a teaspoonful of creme fraiche into it, which made it absolutely delicious!)...

Good evening from Landrecies, near Valenciennes. Food today is not what I'd call healthy; we started off with a banana to keep us going, and then we couldn't resist the lure of a "Big Breakfast Bap" in the terminal at Folkestone, although neither of us ate more than half the sausage spiral, and...

Alas, we don't! I did find liver in a Tesco Superstore recently, but our local Lidl, Tesco, and Sainsbury's appear not to stock it. In France, you can often buy kidneys cooked in a madeira sauce as a ready-meal - absolutely lush! I think we are mostly packed, except for fresh food...