Reminds me of the blue gym suits that we had to wear in high school, back in the early 70s.
That guy resembles Amaury, but I do not think that it is him.
Absolutely! Why can’t these people ever eat anything semi-normal? I used to plan banquets for our trade association conferences, we always aimed for a surf and turf or turf and fowl or all three to make sure everyone was happy. Nice clean vegetables and potato something as sides. Filet mignon and/or salmon or sea bass or something like that always makes most people happy. Roasted chicken breast, pork tenderloin, lovely soups as a starter, plenty of bread, oh and mashed potatoes with garlic or truffle. Why don’t they eat any of these things? It’s bizarre to me. They are in France for fucks sake. All of the ingredients are right there. They can probably even get decent seafood. For their health they should be eating fish at least once a week, and not just tuna from a can. To feed the help they could also make lovely, hearty soups with meat and vegetables they could eat more than one time. It would also save a ton of time. Most of what I see them eat looks like absolute tit.I have to add, Stuart and Maria's explanation of the food was interesting -- the ochre soup was Lalande-grown tomato-courgette-coriander with a creme fraiche quenelle.
The salmagundi salad was endive on a bed of ricotta sage, with grapefruit, grapes, mint, lemon balm, fennel and celery flowers. Endive and grapefruit strike me as a stern pairing with not enough to offset the astringent aspect. A dish should only have one bitter thing in it.
Roasted onions with pink peppercorns, rosemary, oregano, thyme flowers stuffed into a gigantic raw zucchini.
Duck with black currant sauce by Dan.
Roasted homegrown potatoes.
Zucchini cake with lemon, cardamom, raspberries, strawberry coulis.
There was a salubrious effort to serve fresh food from the garden. Putting zucchini in everything reminds me of the days when the hippies were just starting to plant their own gardens and every day another 10 pound zucchini was discovered and had to be eaten. They put it in everything. The tomato soup. The cake. It's not nice.
I have to say too many herbs and pungent spice like cardamom isn't nice either. Sage and endive and grapefruit might be good together. With mint, lemon balm, fennel and celery? I don't know.
There are a plethora of grapefruit sage cocktails that are trendy -- that might be the inspo Stuart is using for the unusual infusion with the ricotta.
The emphasis on fresh seems to have been an enterprise of Stuart's -- to dig the onions and potatoes and pick the black currants which presumably were hanging around with the 25-foot-long zucchinis waiting for Maria to come out of the house? A for effort, girleen.
I would have served the zucchini on its own-- charcoal grilled, with the halved onions, dressed with some of the duck fat? -- instead of using it as a throwaway stealth ingredient in the soup and cake.
And, with herbs as with accessories, take at least four off before you leave the house.
I cannot understand how she gets away with it either! Surely Karma will get her and the Squirrel !
she’s fine with it because she won’t have to change the Monogrammed stuff!!!
The guy is coming in a hour and I bloody hope he has the parts and knows what the hell is going on with the heater!!!!
Yeah, see that's why I wouldn't buy one, I'd end up looking like Sara
I think they are made in India on the thinnest cotton around --- cheap.
It's baffling to me too. They do eat tit. And you have to work very hard to do that in France in the high summer.
That is very wise advise. Everything they eat is so loaded up with a gazillion different things and spices. It is like more is better. However I would expect that Stuart must know her way around a kitchen. I thought she had already graduated from Cordon Bleu, now they are saying she is still a student.
That dress was so hideous. Not sure either what she was talking about some kind of Texan phrase. She is beautiful. Just not sure about her fashion choices. Is this a Parisian thing?.. It reminds me of my Mom's dress at my wedding back in 1975
Influencer events. Thank you for this insight and the link.
look at the junk in the left side background
I have absolutely no doubt that Fanny reads here and reacts on her flogs. “Articulated” people like us, aren’t fooled by her BS. Speaking of interventions, they need Marie Kondo to rock up and start chucking stuff away.
Thank you Jules for soldiering on in creating these beautiful tiles. I cannot imagine how much time this has taken you.
Very likely. And Isabella probably footed the bill for some of the "home-grown" produce as well.
