The Chateau Diaries #313 Let them eat porcelain! They have to since the food portions are so miserly!

[C'est moi]

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OK. I'm getting what @HalcyonOrganic was hinting at now. I think Olivia maybe a plant. Picking up on discussion just as the dump accounts do.

 

[JackSpratt]

I cringe every time I see this clip. I remember watching the episode at the time. I bet that woman wanted to punch Linda Barker and Handy Andy.

 

[HalcyonOrganic]

OK. I'm getting what @HalcyonOrganic was hinting at now. I think Olivia maybe a plant. Picking up on discussion just as the dump accounts do.

hmm? What have I done when?

 

[ploppityplop2]

Lest we forget, that scullery work surface was bodged on installation by Danny Boy within the last year and a half. Tattlers said at the time the bamboo top would immediately begin to rot and was entirely unsuitable. That’s my problem with Danger Prone Danny at Chateau Brûlée. He might work hard, but he works wrong. No appropriate engineering plan much less correct stabilization of the heat damaged structure. No matter how hard he works, would you trust your children or grandchildren to spend one night in that building? Hard work is not a substitute for smart work. Dan Preston is simply incapable of that.

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Spot on

 

[CountessPompidoo]

She's a poor refugee, lost in the world and relying upon the kindness of strangers.
Or a slumming oligarch? An international escort? A runaway mail order bride?

I like the slumming oligarch theory a bit of grounding never hurt anyone.
Not sure she'd make too much money as an international escort, doesn't seem to fit the stereotypical profile, and as for a runaway bride, she'd have been tracked down by now surely. I think she will always remain a puzzle that one

 

[C'est moi]

Is there a Tattler pattern of bone china or stoneware? If not, there should be!

The plates could have @Jules100 tile patterns

 

[Imperious Me]

I’ll never forget that episode omg the disaster and I had second hand embarrassment too, one for the ugly and obviously stupid design plus the teapots omg.

is their a Patreon video or it’s still down, I was sure she said Wednesday

She had the 'free' option the other day, which explains why her membership is going up and the $$$ is going down... EDIT: I just joined.. it doesn't give you anything unless she chooses to unlock anything.. so I canceled. Don't want to add to her #s

 

[Pyke]

If I was FRK I would gave rearrange those shelves to what I used / needed when F and S were away, not mentioned it and got on with my culinary tasks. If they "complained" I would resign on the spot. Not that I would ever accept a job working for those two in those conditions, I would never be so desperate.

 

[Le Baiseur]

Way back when Dan started his Patreon, he said it was just temporary until he could get a private subscription service started. I think it's been a year+ since he said that; I wonder what the delay is? The Shreks have done it, and I wouldn't be surprised if Fanny is currently flashing her cutlets at Steve to entice him to help her get her subscription going. She can be free from Patreon and blame the scandal on a glitch.

 

[terese m]

If I were Marie I'd start loosening the screws to those shelves above the sink just al little bit everyday.
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Well, Mother Nature might just do the trick. Apparently Lalande is on/near a fault line!

 

[Imperious Me]

I wouldn't call a formal garden a "relaxing oasis"
and who's going to maintain that tit?
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Gawd help them when she's too old to carry most of the weight..

 

[NotAChatelaine]

Quinoa? Gluten?

Since when?

 

[M&MsMom]

Way back when Dan started his Patreon, he said it was just temporary until he could get a private subscription service started. I think it's been a year+ since he said that; I wonder what the delay is? The Shreks have done it, and I wouldn't be surprised if Fanny is currently flashing her cutlets at Steve to entice him to help her get her subscription going. She can be free from Patreon and blame the scandal on a glitch.

I've always wondered why Stephanie hasn't done this sooner, although I'm not really aware what platform Steve uses. Is it just something he's created himself? He would have to manage everything and his own patronage must be small compared to Stephanie's.

Maybe it's a new business for Steve to get into! He can take a cut of the proceeds from his precious Stephanie and maybe buy himself a wash, cut and blow-dry for his hair?

 

[billybudd]

So La Moulin has an impressive €25-30 prix fixe menu (changes daily on their website) which also blows Jarvis' revolting supermarket meals out of the water.

My Mill Menu

www.moulindes4saisons.fr

Perhaps you Frenchies can read the menu in French and tell us what you think "winter trim" on the Maine poultry means, and other whimsies in the charming menus. Maraicher I take to mean today's veg from the farm to table market gardener, whom we support by buying what he's got instead of stipulating. In season, supporting local farmers which is completely beyond the ken of either Jarvis or Wiik.
Please note again, Maine poultry, local, special, delicious -- Jarvis has poule noire du Berry in her region, served sauce jaune at Le Relais du Facteur for a €15 festive prix fixe menu. Jarvis can afford it.

Noire du Berry Chicken - Arca del Gusto - Slow Food Foundation

Local, slow growing breed. It is very rustic and suited to the original Berry area (Indre and Cher) and has a dual purpose: meat production and egg

www.fondazioneslowfood.com

One day it's coeur du rumsteck, French butchery, which is UK Rump, Silverside, or Topside, US sirloin or round.

Coeur de Romsteck and Pavé de Rumsteck – Rump Steaks. French Cuts That Make for Some of the Tastiest Steaks.

This site gives background to French food, the dishes, how they are made and how they should be served.

behind-the-french-menu.blogspot.com

Next day it's local specialty poultry.

Volailles du Maine | Local Poultry From Maine-et-Loire

What is Volailles du Maine? Volailles du Maine (farm chicken and turkey) is poultry of excellent quality with no surplus of fat. With excellent quality of the meat come strict quality controls, so there can be 11 chickens or 6 turkeys at most per one square meter

www.tasteatlas.com

Both days local cod, what I suspect is housemade raspberry vinegar, peaches in season, fruit fantasy in season and restaurant imperative chocolate -- but nice bonne femme cooking vibes, including the calves' brain. Creative rustic starters, peach salad, brains, bruschetta with egg and smoked poultry. Again, light, piquant, well-thought through, socially conscious and soulful.
It's not rocket science, Marie.
Nor is it the Lalande specialty of halved blueberries, straight from the Isabelle and Stephanie Jarvis' Lalande Cookbook: How to Show Your Paying Guests, Nursing Home Patients, Friends, and Volunteers Exactly How Little You Think of Them and What Chumps They Are.



Menu “My Mill
Starter + Main course + Dessert = €29.90
Starter + Main Course Or Main Course + Dessert = €25.00
Starter + Main Course Or Main Course + Dessert + 1 Glass of Wine Or 1 coffee = € 28.90
Peach Return Salad
Or
Veal brains cooked meunière, bacon and mushrooms
Accompanied by its Mesclun, Raspberry Vinegar juice
* * * * * *
Heart of Rumsteak
Vegetables from the Market Gardener
Or
Cod fillet cooked meunière
Flavors of the moment
* * * * * *
Trilogy of Cheeses and Mesclun
Or
Mimi's sweetness
Or
Fruit Fantasy

Menu "My Mill"
Italian Bruschetta, Boiled Egg and Smoked Poultry
Or
Salad "Return of Peach"
* * * * * *
Poultry from "Maine"
Winter Trim
Or
Cod fillet cooked meunière
Flavors of the moment
* * * * * *
Chocolate Sweetness
Or
Fruit Fantasy

To remind, here is the young local farmer-chef at Crozon sur Vauvre, Romain Moreau, that Jarvis could support -- instead of the supermarket -- by paying him a monthy sum to produce vegetables for the B and B. He is featured on the mairie's website as a young person staying to work in rural France, and in this newspaper article.

https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/indre/crozon-sur-vauvre-indre-romain-moreau-ou-la-bonne-recette-du-maraicher

Jarvis could help green France, establish a local CSI farm to table economy, and have fresh French food on her table weekly. Give the boy four hundred Euros a month and help establish a 21st c family business.

vie économique - Site officiel de Crozon sur Vauvre

www.crozonsurvauvre.fr

 

[Le Baiseur]

I've always wondered why Stephanie hasn't done this sooner, although I'm not really aware what platform Steve uses. Is it just something he's created himself? He would have to manage everything and his own patronage must be small compared to Stephanie's.

Maybe it's a new business for Steve to get into! He can take a cut of the proceeds from his precious Stephanie and maybe buy himself a wash, cut and blow-dry for his hair?

I didn't think of the nightmare it would be to personally manage all of those patrons and different levels... assuming all of the current patreons migrate over to the new service.

 

[Nettle flower]

The prancing twerp does have a sense of humour, except it’s never progressed beyond the school playground. Remember his uncontrollable giggles (no doubt with shorty sound effects) at the bash Permasmile Viv threw for the Manor & Maker engagement/pre wedding? Hysteria about cocks, pure adolescent. Arrested development in bucket loads.

Whenever (which is quite often) anyone says something he doesn’t “get”, his look of incomprehension is mixed with outright petulance. It’s almost worth watching CD, just for those moments. Unsophisticated, ill-educated, one dimensional prat.

Oh I so agree, those looks are priceless, although now the I'm not afraid face is my all time favourite Snorty face. I've had to watch it more than once, it makes me giggle.

 

[Alice Strictknickers]

We should come up with a pattern and then all of us go to one of those 'paint your own pottery" places and send our creations to the rubble that is la Lande!

Maybe Marie could get us a good deal at her friends' café in Haworth?

Cobbles and Clay

Haworth's creative cafe. Hi and welcome to Cobbles & Clay – a café and pottery painting studio at the top of Haworth's Main Street.

www.cobblesandclay.co.uk

 

[Lady Avonlea]

First Patron Video

- Fanny is sitting in a restaurant in the Netherlands with lots of loud banging and clanging of dishes in the background
- Fanny's hands are flapping wildly and lots of hair flips
- Massive misunderstanding apparently.....patreon wrote to Fanny about a problem with discounts on multi-level marketing which are against their T&C's (apparently Fanny doesn't know what multi-level marketing is, but likens it to a pyramid scheme)
- Patreon said she can't have any discounts for a business that isn't via patreon (ex: the B&B)
- Fanny had to remove discounts on B&B stays at Lalande for different patron tiers
- Fanny really doesn't understand it all and asks patrons for advice
________
- they stopped in Amsterdam and visited Nic & Antone
- now in Maastricht and having dinner with Philip's parents tonight
- have only seen one picture of the chandeliers before buying them - antique shop wanted €8,000 for 4 chandeliers but Fanny got for the bargain price of €7,000 (included cleaning), but they still need to be electrified
________
- Princess Diana's gilder has arrived at the shitoo - the chapel is going to be all blinged up & very, very shinny
- Fanny is hoping to get the GS all blinged up and shinny too

 

[Boleyn sister]

I have to still read the previous thread but if noone posted this yet, here it is, just for you

Guide to Goyard bag Prices and sizes (2024)

In this guide we will dive in to Goyard and its Prices and sizes.Explore the varying prices and sizes of these coveted designer bags across different regions. Gain insights into what makes Goyard bags a luxury staple and find the perfect fit for your style and budget

collectorscage.com

Saint Louis GM € 1,500

similar Dior scarf

not sure about the scarf but the bag is defo new, I know her shajt (weird I know) as I have posted about it since the very beginning, as we started this trend of spotting the lux shajt, especially at the times when she pretended she was wearing water battels around her waist and was never given a present by her mum, I feel obliged to continue ,
poor orphan princess she is

 

[Frenchie0810]

Latest vlog. Are u kidding me. Bicker bicker both Fanny and Marie piling on Snorts. What was he eating that went moldy??? I could not understand them. Also Quinoa is naturally gluten free. May be processed in wheat plants..

But as far as we were told Marie is not celiac, just avoids gluten....
So much mis information. and we say MP better piano player. And we get Snorts on the piano and dumb blonde girl with dog on her shoulder again. Cant wait for Mummy to get there. Also why should Snorts have any say what happens in the kitchen???? He is so out of bounds. Take your porcelain and put it in your study/bedroom or a container...dumb ass

It sounded hideous.. get your foot off the sustaining pedal Phi Phi.