Month: June 2015
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How to Make a Forest Noire
How to make a Foret Noire (a black forest cake.) Easy… you ask my niece Juliette to come over. She made the chocolate cake (which in itself was almost as good as French Husband's kisses. Then she cut it…
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Twenty Three Years Ago
Twenty three years ago Sacha was born three weeks early. He weighed 8.8 pounds. French husband, Chelsea and I were spending the weekend with Yann's Great Aunt who lived two hours away from the nearest hospital.…
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Simple Necessities
My Grandmother Frances, Va, came to America from the Azores. Her trunk was filled with simple necessities: Linen towels, Some chemises, A hair brush, Some dresses, a few in cotton, maybe one…
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How I Met Annie
France celebrates the end of World War II on the 8th of May. Over twenty years ago, when we first arrived in the French village where we live, an elderly woman came to our door. She introduced herself as Annie…
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Serving Up Paris
Cutest tray of Paris ever! 1950s a keeper!