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Dessert · Pies & Tarts · Provencal Recipes · Tasha Powell · Taste

Chocolate and Pear Tarts a Fall Dessert

October 15, 2021

This chocolate and pear tart is a perfect dessert for autumn. Chocolate and pears are a magnificent marriage of flavour and texture. For this dessert, I also created a leaf design with raspberry coulis and caramel on a white plate (using squeeze bottles) and blended the colours with a synthetic brush.  I meticulously placed chocolate

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Guide to the Villages of the Alpilles

September 17, 2021

Beautiful Alpilles Established in 2007, the Parc Naturel Régional des Alpilles covers the mountain range and its flanks. As a protected natural area, there are restrictions on construction and park usage. However, the artifacts from human settlements discovered in these hills date back to the Neolithic era, and the range is the result of millions

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Dessert · Pies & Tarts · Provencal Recipes · Tasha Powell · Taste

How to Make French Fruit Tarts Seasonal Recipe Variations

September 16, 2021

One of my favourite desserts is seasonal fruit tarts (tartes aux fruits). These tarts also make nice afternoon treats. So, I make them all year with local, in-season produce. In California, you find puff pastry sheets at most grocery stores (Ralphs, Gelson’s) and at French supermarkets like Carrefour or Intermarché. Typically, I make the French-style

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Explore · Locals Travel Tips · Our House in Provence

My Favourite Things About Provence France

September 13, 2021

The amazing region of Provence, France, has so many wonderful places to explore and points of interest to check out that it is almost impossible to decide my favourites. After not going to Sablet because of the pandemic for more than 1 year and 1/2, I am trying to figure out how to get to

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Guest Post · Inspire · Provencal History & Traditions

The Seasons of Tour de l’Horloge in Aix-en-Provence

August 31, 2021

It’s someone’s job to clamber up narrow staircases and reach across the void inside the Tour de l’Horloge to manoeuvre the four (4) statues around every 3 months when the season changes. It’s down to (or should we say up to) the Mairie concierge, who says he didn’t realize this was involved when he took

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Ginger and Nutmeg · Provencal Recipes · Taste

Fresh Figs Sweet and Savoury Recipes from Provence

August 18, 2021

Sweet and earthy, the fragrance of a fig tree full of almost ripe fruit is like standing in a pot of jam. The fig tree is known as the Common Fig. It grows both cultivated and wild in most countries that are close to the Mediterranean and in many parts of Asia. Some tree varieties

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Explore · Keith Van Sickle · Stay Fit

Top Biking Routes in the Alpilles

August 10, 2021

My wife and I live part of the year in St-Rémy-de-Provence, a charming town that sits at the foot of the Alpilles mountains. We love to bike in and around the Alpilles on routes that range from easy to moderately difficult. If you stay off the busy main roads, biking in the Alpilles is easy

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