The Chateau Diaries #285 Fannys's next scam Buy me a soul and some friends

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Madame de Pompanddoodoo said:
For anyone who can access BBC iPlayer or the archives I really really really recommend a 6 part series called The Curious House Guest where Jeremy Musson spends the weekend at 6 different stately homes in the UK and Ireland. I have just binged watched the whole series and loved them all. If you can access them watch them you won’t regret it.
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I loved that series it is fabulous
 
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HalcyonOrganic

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„Philipp, Jeremy’s mother said she wants to extend her stay at Lalande. She’s also ordering a security guard for Jeremy’s door at night.

Ohhh what a lovely knife set you have there. What will you do with that? Why are you grinning?“

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Imperious Me

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FecilitéJ said:
I used to make a mean cassoulet back in the day, well I suppose, a UK version as we didn't have all the imports they do these days. My favourite sausage to add was good old Marks and Spencers pork, celery and walnut sausages. They were delicious, I was so so mad when they discontinued them 😭😭😭
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Can you make them? I want the recipe now 😁
 
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Beachgirl

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NotAChatelaine said:
MariE is not dillydallying about over the weekend. No siree. She’s signed up for the Ashburton 2 day Indian Plus course.


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Good on ‘er.

Confounding expectations, she really seems to be loving every moment and making a go of buckling down to learning.

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On our Indian cookery weekend you will learn the fundamentals of Indian cookery.
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Wow going straight in teaching how to make Vindaloo 🥵🥵
 
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Fennelbug

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Lady Avonlea said:
Grifting has highlighted the worse of Fanny’s narc traits, but it's just not Fanny's money hungry, dishonest lifestyle that has caused old friends to distance themselves. We never see Fanny taking time out of her trips to meet up with old friends for a drink or dinner. What does Fanny do to stay in touch with old friends - NOTHING! It's all about her and not about them.

Fanny is a transactional phony! Can you mail Fanny a box of her shopping and pretend it's a cadeaux gift. Can you babysit Fanny's shitoo while she's on vacation. Can you come for the weekend, it's going to be a fabulous party plus I've got a costume for you, and it would be wonderful if you would cook your delicious roast dinner on Saturday evening - they'll be 16 of us! People get tired of being used, especially when Fanny is making money off of your efforts by filming it for YT !

Unlike Fanny, most of her old friends have grown-up and now have real lives, real jobs, real families and real responsibilities. They don't have time to travel to the middle no where in Central France to play dress-up and make believe. Even if they are still interested in coming to an annual, silly dress-up party at the dump, they don't want a pink camera stuck in their face filming the entire weekend and then have it posted on YT.

For the first time in her life Fanny had friends at uni and that's where she peaked in life and got stuck! Staying at the dump was fine when they were all young, drunk, silly and stoned. It's not as much fun when you are middle-aged, drunk, silly and not stoned. Her friends standards have gone up a bit, but Fanny doesn't seem to have gotten that message when it comes to entertaining her own guests. Fanny loves 5 star, but she treats her guests like they're still 21 year old students staying in a 1 star, no-tell motel.

Even many new chateau friends, unless they are desperate (ie: the Shreks, Permasmiles) only visit the HMN once, out of politeness, and never return.

Finally, who the hell wants to spend their time hanging out with Snorty? No one with half a brain. Snorty, the closeted gay, pre-pubescent drop-out brings nothing to the table and Fanny's bogus boyfriend shtick has contributed to making her a laughing stock!
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Snorty Ruins Everything
 
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MRShavershamsdress

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billybudd said:
I never went to any kind of culinary school, and did baking not at all. I stood next to the baker, a self-taught former social worker and current gay man, who taught me about the soul of baking just being there.
He was a chemist.
The rest of us qua chefs were screamers. You can fix a broken sauce. But if the cake don't rise, honey, there's gonna be no sugar 2nite.
He was always fiddling with three different kinds of thermometers, trying to figure out the actual temperature in the different ovens and areas of the ovens. Real precision, paired with these sugar plum porn fantasies he dreamt up, literally, at night, were the heart of the lesson. Also mark up. He sold for six dollars (this was a long time ago) what he made for 82 cents. Only the bartenders got more love from the restaurant owners.
There was a real sugar porn aspect to it, which he was right, uh, on top of. People kill for buttercream. Add liquor and they will pay $15 more for a slice while they levitate.
The exec chef could do savory pastry, taught us puff pastry and so on, also strictly chemist/surgery/temp-sensitive work. No lamination, no sugar 2nite, and you've pissed away six pounds of butter. A big nono.
A one-day course makes me laugh. One real culinary school grad I know -- chef, not baker -- can formulate baking recipes and knows how proteins chemicalize -- for example, how yogurt will tenderize the cornbread, if you run out of buttermilk etc. This is the key knowledge, aside from the sugar plum porn markup, and you do not learn it in one day.
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Too right! The most accomplished bakers have the soul of an artist and the brain of an organic chemist. I’ve known some who were incredibly talented with breads of all types but were utterly hopeless with any kind of pastry. Same with cake artists. Rarely do you find a talented all around professional baker. When you do, you’d better put a ring on it and make sure they like their partners thicc!
 
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billybudd

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Madame de Pompanddoodoo said:
For anyone who can access BBC iPlayer or the archives I really really really recommend a 6 part series called The Curious House Guest where Jeremy Musson spends the weekend at 6 different stately homes in the UK and Ireland. I have just binged watched the whole series and loved them all. If you can access them watch them you won’t regret it.
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Thanks for the tip, it's really interesting to see good English style after so much exposure to bad French style. The basket of potatoes in the Regency dining room, ting ting. Curated, useful, previously owned by great grandpa stuff. No somebody else's random Emmaus stuff.
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Is she going to be one of those people who starts to see Jesus' face on her tortilla?
 
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What if with Marie’s new skills, a new confidence and self worth emerges, and she finds that she has now outgrown Lalande and Fanny.
She may realize that a whole new world might open up for her if she continues to upgrade her skills and network with other like minded people. That she gets what a dead end Lalande, as well as her association with Fanny really is for her life.

I hope she has much success and gathers the strength to remove herself from the toxic dump and Fanny, for good.
 
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