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Weekly Top Posts: 2025-01-19
2025-01-19 05:00 UTC

  1. Review From a Guest of the Tiny House
  2. Gâteau des Rois, King’s Cake
  3. Meet Clare From the Nutcracker
  4. How Poetry Tells the Truth
  5. Gaza: May This be the Beautiful Lasting Chapter

Grocery Shopping in Normandy, Plus Recipes
2025-01-19 02:00 UTC by Corey

Every region in France has its food specialties In Provence, you’ll find goat cheese, rosé wine, bouillabaisse, tomatoes, melons, and olives. In Normandy, it’s oysters, Calvados, apples, cream, carrots, cider, and so much more.


This morning, at the weekly outdoor market where I nearly froze into a snow cone (26°F!), it was...

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Walking the Sand Dunes in Normandy
2025-01-18 02:00 UTC by Corey

Yann’s mother has called Normandy her home for several years now. She moved there from Brittany, a region where she grew up, but ultimately left behind due to her age and not having any family nearby. She made the move to be closer to her daughter. 

When Yann was growing up, his childhood was tied to the vast beaches of Normandy,...

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Looking for a Recipe
2025-01-17 02:00 UTC by Corey

Tell me in the comment section, please, a new favorite stand by recipe.

A bowl of cereal, take out, nor something out of the freezer counts because I know those tricks.

What is your go to when there is nothing to go to and your hungry? Yann would say pasta with butter.

Today, I went online looking for dinner ideas and this popped up from...

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Gaza: May This be the Beautiful Lasting Chapter
2025-01-16 02:00 UTC by Corey

text photos via HumantiProject

Text photos via HumantiProject

Meet Clare From the Nutcracker
2025-01-15 02:00 UTC by Corey

Olivia loves to pretend she’s Clara from The Nutcracker. Her favorite part of the ballet? Surprisingly, it’s not the Sugar Plum Fairies but the battle scene with the « mousies. » She especially loves the moment when Clara throws her slipper at the multi-headed Mouse King to save her Nutcracker.

Each morning, Olivia barely has her...

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Gâteau des Rois, King’s Cake
2025-01-14 02:00 UTC by Corey


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The Gâteau des Rois – King’s Cake.

Recipe:

4 cups of grounded almonds and/or hazelnuts, or a mixture of both,
2 cups of sugar,

Some melted butter to make the almond mixture thick yet creamy.

A drop or two of Grand Mariner,

An egg,

Some milk,
Mix until smooth; try not to eat it raw,
Then place the almond mixture...

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