french life Archives - Curious Provence

Visit Beautiful Gordes Market on Tuesdays

July 14, 2017 by ashleyt 18 Comments

Beautiful Gordes Market in Pictures

Gordes, classified as one of the most beautiful villages of France. This famous hilltop town looks out over the Luberon National Park. You feel obligated to stop your car driving into the village as the village is arguably even more beautiful from the outside. The architecture here is similar to the bories village settlements where dry stone dwellings were made from rocks in farming land. You can visit some of these settlements nearby the town. All to say, Gordes Market is worth visiting if you’re in the area.

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French Clafoutis Recipe

January 31, 2017 by ashleyt 4 Comments

When we first moved to France, the property we lived on had a large, abandoned cherry orchard. Consequentially, we researched all the best French cherry recipes. Everyone kept telling us about cherry clafoutis!

Clafoutis, most often made with cherries, is one of the classic French grandma desserts. People are most likely to feel nostalgic about clafoutis. It was often eaten as an afternoon snack when kids got home from school.

It’s cheap and incredibly simple to make.

Personally, I like it for breakfast at either room temperature or just out of the fridge. As all French desserts, there is very little sugar and all the better for it.

Clafoutis is almost bordering on the healthy…

This dish is one of those rare dishes that don’t improve with more luxurious ingredients such as cream, chocolate or a fresh vanilla pod. The joy of clafoutis is the squidgy lovely texture.

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Tellines à la Persillade, a simple market dish

October 27, 2016 by ashleyt 5 Comments

Tellines (pronounced tellEEne)

There was a little commotion yesterday morning at Saint Remy de Provence market. Gilles, the oyster and mussel vendor, placed a large tub of tellines at the front of his stall. First to notice, with coffees in hand at 8 am, were the other foraines (market workers). Some even stopped in the middle of the bise* greetings to make their way over to Gilles’ stall. Threats were made to keep some for them. The lip-smacking in anticipation for dinner started particularly early.

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Planting Leeks in Provence

August 31, 2015 by ashleyt Leave a Comment

Winter leeks have a blue tinge to their leaves. These are being sold right now at Vaison la Romaine market on Tuesday mornings.

Repiquage des Poireaux d’Hiver

For those of you who aren’t kicking yourselves for enthusiastically sowing hundreds of seeds when the first spring blossom appeared (the sprouting weeds somehow not reminding you of the seemingly unmanageable workload that comes with a ‘potager’ of a decent size), you will most likely be thinking of planting your winter veggies. I would suggest planting leeks in Provence.

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Goat Cheese Market in Rognes

April 11, 2015 by ashleyt 1 Comment

*The Fête de la Chèvre goat cheese market is on April 7th this year in Rognes (2019)

What would a chévre festival be without the goats?!

Rognes has a wonderful goat cheese market every year. A true reflection of the best of Provence!…