What’s Cooking?

With all the rain the last few weeks, we've basically been housebound.  Hunkered down on the couch with blankets and cooking up lots of good food.  I thought I'd share some of the yummy meals we've been eating recently. Roasted Red Kuri Pumpkin & Coconut Soup *recipe found here  Autumn Vegetable Roast *toss with olive oil, s&p, garlic, and chili flakes.  bake at 400º for 30-40...

Hump Day: Port Wine in Porto

I think that, by now, you all know how much I love wine.  Living in California and France has given me the opportunity to learn about wine and the wine-making process in real life experiences, which is best way possible.  So when Stéphanie and I took our Girl's Trip to Porto, Portugal, I was really excited to expand my knowledge to a new type of wine about which I knew very little:  Port Wine.  There's a whole...

Food Porn Dictionary: International Edition

With all our recent travels, I thought it would be fun to put together an International Edition of the Food Porn Dictionary.  It's not just France that has great food in Europe, you know.  Our first stop is... COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Typical Danish food consists of open faced sandwiches, plus hearty dishes with lots of meats, potatoes, and gravy.  As I mentioned in my travel post, Copenhagen is surprisingly a...

French Bed Beard: Fig’s Diary

Hi Everyone! It's been awhile since my last diary post, so I asked Mom if I could take over the blog today.  We've had a lot going on here and, to be honest, I've kind of had a bad week.  First, my best friend Sauce moved back to Montreal. It seems like all the beautiful women here leave me.  First Teti, and now Sauce.  Sigh. Actually, Sauce is more like an annoying little sister who never left me...

Copenhagen City Guide Part III: Dos, Don’ts, Eats

I hope you guys are ready for my final post on Copenhagen, because I have many more recent travels to tell you about!  You can read about Copenhagen Parts One and Two by clicking on the links. Like any city, we had a lot of options of what to do with our short amount of time.  I think we did a pretty good job of filling our days with relaxing and interesting activities.  I've compiled a list of Dos and Don'ts...

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone is having a spook-tacular day!  France doesn't exactly "celebrate" Halloween, so we're not really in the spirit here unfortunately.  Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Quite frankly, I love any occasion when I can dress up in a costume.     Guess we'll have to do a better job for next year!

A New Season

Earlier this week, after a long day of travel returning from our trip to Stockholm, I sat down in my apartment and realized that our lives here in Montpellier are changing.  Seemingly overnight, the brutally hot summer days have been replaced with crisp morning air and fall leaves.  The bins in the fresh markets that once held peaches and almonds are now filled with chestnuts and squashes.  The throngs of French...

Vacances!

Hello Friends! Back in January, I wrote this post, about living in the present, after my 18-year old cousin Amanda died tragically in a terrible accident.  Last week would have been her 19th birthday and as I've been thinking a lot about her and that post, other unfortunate events occurred that have really made me reflect on my mantra of "no day but today."  Lately I really feel that I've been spending so much...

Hump Day & Copenhagen Part II: Carlsberg Brewery Tour

One of the main things The Hub and I have been saying when asked about our trip to Copenhagen is, "Well, we drank a lot of beer."  In terms of drinking, we've always loved beer, but it's really taken a backseat to wine here in France (and my waistline thanks me), but in Copenhagen, it's all about the beer. Which obviously led us to the Carlsberg Brewery.  I mean, How could we go to Copenhagen and...

Copenhagen City Guide Part I: Fast Facts

Are you guys ready to hear about Copenhagen?  Good, because that's what's happening over here this week.  Copenhagen is my kinda town and we had a wonderful visit!  Everyone was all, "oh, why did you pick Copenhagen for your birthday trip?" And I'm all, "umm, I don't know.  Michael says it's cool?"  I knew I married him for a reason.  The man is smart.  We took the very last direct flight of the season from...