Gardens in center of France
The marshes surrounding the small city of Bourges formed a barrier that protected early Celt and later Roman settlements from invasion. The vast marshlands inspired fear and superstition since those who entered...
Janet's Jaunts Blog
goats of loire
Perhaps it’s the country girl in my heritage, but I loved our visit to a Loire farm where goat cheese was made. The city folks among our group of writers stuck their...
stained glass & asparagus season in Loire
We visited a stained glass maker in Chartres before heading out to Orleans where we took a cooking class. Although the glass maker has been doing it for 30 some years, he...
chartres 1 hour from paris
Chartres, a little more than an hour by train from Paris, is a popular day trip from the city. It’s also become a bedroom community for the city, since it’s in the...
loire like home
It’s been as cool here as early spring in Ohio, with a good dose of rain. Its hasnt dampened the experience though. Flew over on Continental’s new flight with a pilot as...
sorry guys
Being a newbie at this blogging thing, I thought I could no longer blog when the Pillsbury Bake-Off icon was removed from the News-Herald’s Web site. But I got the answer to...
Finding THE nuts
Readers have called and e-mailed me in their search for the Fisher Dry Roasted Peanuts called for in the Double Delight Peanut Butter Cookies recipe that won the Pillsbury Bake-Off. In Dallas...
and the winner is…
Carolyn Gurtz of Gaitherburg, Md. is the newest Pillsbury Bakeoff millioniare. Her Her Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies are brilliantly simple..they build upon a roll of Pillsbury Create ‘n Bake refrigerated peanut butter...
Big sigh of relief
Tonight’s western style dinner at Eddie Deen’s party center here in Dallas was the first event in which finalists, media, food industry executives and supermarket consumer affairs directors were all together. Food...
Bake-Off strategies
The 100 finalists have just finished cooking and submitted their recipes to the judges, who are sequestered away in a room carefully guarded by security. I spent four hours walking among them...
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