Hello,
If you were at the Beaujolais Wine Festival last Friday in Dallas, it was a real blast. We shared a glass (or two) of Beaujolais with many of you and had a lot of fun. The elegant classic Laguiole knives were our best sellers, but many of you also loved the beautiful wine and food theme Torchons tea towels as wel as the pepper mills and other French items.
Here are some pics from the Froggies at the festival:
Jeannette Johnsen is the winner of our raffle. She is now the proud owner of a beautiful black resin Laguiole set (value $150).
Jeannette is a tireless volunteer at the French American Chamber of Commerce and we could not have found a more deserving winner.
Bravo Jeannette.
We hope to meet you this coming friday at the Beaujolais Wine Festival organized by the French American Chamber of Commerce Dallas/ Fortworth.
Let's have a glass of wine together (not virtual this time) and let's discover
our wine accessories (coasters, corkscrews...).
For more information about the event, please follow this link
I would really like to hear what you think about the products we are selling, our service, our site, any kind of feedback. Especially if you are happy with us!
Please post your comments with sugestions, requests, stories, praise or even complaints.
Thank you
We have some French neighbors in our street and they invited us to a barbecue last week end. The weather was pretty bad so we stayed inside. They cooked with this kind of ceramic plancha I had never seen before. They put it directly on the cook top. Then it went from the cook top to the table and kept the food warm. It was very convenient.
This recipe comes from a kid recipe book. I began to bake it in France when I was a little boy and I am still doing it now that I am a teen and that we moved to the US.
I tasted a lot of chocolate cakes and I never found any like mine, I can tell you. This cake is very popular and each time we've got friends coming home for dinner, I am the one responsible for the dessert. Most of the time, they eat all the cake and I don't have any of it left for my breakfast!!!
Hereafter, you'll find my secret:
200g black chocolate
200g butter
200g sugar
5 eggs
2 spoons of flour
Melt the chocolate and the butter in a double boiler. Mix them together and then gradually add to the mixture the eggs one by one beating continually, and then the flour.
Then put the cake in the oven 20 minutes (350.F). That's it!
I love skiing in the French Alps. I don't know if you've ever been there but it is just amazing. The Alps have hundreds of kilometers of ski slopes, in some of the most beautiful mountains, rolling foothills, and pristine lakes and rivers in the world. The well-known resorts are world famous destinations for skiing such as Chamonix, Val d’Isere, Meribel, Courchevel ... with Chamonix, host of the first Winter Olympics in 1924, known as its capital. Its prize peak is Mont Blanc, which, at 4,807 m (15,771 ft), is Europe’s highest.
