Kitchen Decor

This evening the children will sprinkle the kitchen garden and will gather some bits aromatics for tart of Fanny.

"The evening, the smells flavored by the warm ground moistened by the watering of the Provençal gardener."

This morning with the kitchen garden Charlotte and Corentin will gather small spring vegetables.

"Vegetables soaked with the Provence scents, protected as secret, savoured as sin."

In Shade of the Garden, Pretty this May and June, let us gather with the garden the dishevelled peonies.

"The Provence farmer is going to finish his days in the freshness of his garden with all his well hidden secrets."

At the end of summer, under thick foliations, let us crunch the grape very gorged with sugar and burning sun.

"It is the long-awaited moment by the wine grower of Provence: the hour of the grape harvests. Suddenly the countryside starts again living"

The laurel has patience in the garden before to be dried in the cusine to adapt many provencaux dishes.

"Attention on this grass of Provence, especially for the children, because when it is green the leaf of the laurel is toxic"

Always present in nature, the kitchen, a pot or a basket thyme is the inevitable meeting of Provence.

"In the Provençal cooking, thyme is the most used by far. Of the grill in simmered flat youngs, it perfumes quite as one pleases."

Another odor of Provence. In ballade rosemary rubs with you and still scents your atmosphere during long days.

"The rosemary is long-lived and acclimatizes easily far from its native Provence."

In Provence the worship of the lavender is present everywhere. You can even taste ice cream with lavender.

"The use of the aforementioned grass of Provence in the Provençal cooking lives however almost nobody."

Lavenders summer: these fraiches scents to perfume the embroidered linen sleeping in cupboards.

"Our ancestors, in Provence, perfumed cupboards and took away insects with the dried lavender."

At shade of the treille, at the suspended hours, we enjoy between friends of the delights without similar.

"The straw hat, the "capéou" in Provençal, is indispensable for flanner or make in fields. Warning in the sun which fills"

The garden full sun: O, beautiful summer, returned here the time of these baths of sun and these lunched flowered under the arbour.

"Sunflower: "turn with the sun". In a completed alignment all the flowers turn to the radiant beams."

In the chestnut groves of High Provence is dissimulated Delicious Boletus.

"It grows to the end of spring or at the beginning of the autumn, following the whims of the Provençal climate."

The gouteuse morel is deserved with its so different hiding-places, but which happiness to find it in your plate.

"The snow melted, the spring takes back these rights, the morel just appears."

It is obligatory kneel in foam, under the pines and the oaks, to find "miss girolle" , but it deserves it well.

"Has girolle grow late in winter, she has to be afraid of the Provençal sweetness."

Our grandmothers kettle, installed at the edge of the stove, always ready to whistle with hour of infusion or tea.

 "In winter, by evaporation, it was in charge of of hydrating the air of all the Provençal house."

Quiet but odorous, the hand coffee machine waits the hour of the breakfast, the end of the meal, a friendly visit. It would have anecdotes of them to tell you.

"At daybreak, precedent allocates him in fields, its smell wakes the still sleepy Provençal ancient country-house."

Tea lover partner, always lends to deliver its varied savours come from east.

"For the Provençal people not long ago even, this beverage and these exotic utensils, seemed chic people reserved."

In the country house early in the morning, the bowls smoking under the arbour feel the smell of the coffee. The slice of bread! Jam of apricot or fig?

"The bowl in Provence, each had his, every part made carried one particular mark, before the more impersonal arrival of the glass."

The oil pot in the past was used to preserve olive oil with shelters of the light in the part pantry.

"In Provence the olive oil serves for all the recipes and it support easyly the strong temperatures of cookings."

The preserve pot in the past was used to keep food in salt, oil or straw.

"The strong hot season of Provence obliged the ancient to find all the craftiness to protect the food"