More Croissants, Please!

Hello?  Is anyone out there?  Remember that time when I was in France and I said I was going to continue my blog when I got back?  Well… it’s happening,  just a year later! It’s been a crazy year for us over here – job quitting, puppy rearing, wedding planning, wedding having, among some of … More I’m Back!

The chance the above photo ends up on our wall is pretty high.  I love Switzerland.  Oh, you already knew that?  Well it’s still my favorite.  It was a long train ride from Paris to Bern, followed by an almost two hour drive, but we made it to Gstaad on Monday afternoon.  We did another … More Gstaad, Switzerland

I’m a little behind but I’ll start with Paris!  Also, I took almost no pictures there.  Whoops. Andrew got into the city and we met around 11:45, then went to meet the owner of the apartment we were renting.  I picked it because it was affordable and looked to be in a pretty good location … More Two Days in Paris

I’ve been terrible about posting and have been meaning to write this for almost a week now.  Andrew arrived in Paris on Saturday morning and we’ve been running all over France and Switzerland like crazy.   More on that in a later post! Last week was my final week of school.  It was so much … More Week 4: Plated Desserts and Meat

A little late, I know.  Last week was chocolate week in pastry and fish week in cuisine.  Quite the combination. The biggest challenge in pastry was learning how to temper the chocolate correctly – I don’t fully know the science behind it (maybe a later post once I’ve done some research), but if you don’t … More Week 3 Summary: Fish and Chocolate

This weekend, we went to Provence in the Southeast of France to explore.  I have been wanting to go here for awhile – Vanderbilt has a big study-abroad program in Aix-en-Provence and everyone who I know who went there loved it.  We stayed in Aix but arranged a tour for Saturday to see many of … More A Weekend in Provence: Beauty and the Beast, Red Rocks, Mad Max, and The Pope

I can’t wait to tell you all about my travels to Provence this weekend and the delicious things I made last week, along with gutting a pigeon today.  But first, I want to take a time-out to talk about other less glamorous things.  You know that old cliche, “You are what you eat”?  Well, what … More Getting Mushy

I think I forgot to tell you – the school offers extra classes that you can take after hours for an extra cost.  One of the classes that I signed up for was a cheese and drink pairing class, and it was last night (the other is chocolate – it’s next week).  It was so … More Cheese and Drink Pairing Class

Having some trouble with the internet… more pictures to come as I am able to upload them! I just got back from an epic weekend of trekking in the Pyrenees.  If I talked to you at all before this trip, you know that I was really excited to go on a trail running weekend in … More French Pyrenees Trek