It Isn't Just About the Eating

You will have seen a couple of previous posts which have merely provided visual evidence of what we get upto at or around 11am most mornings.  Typical of us really that it revolves around food!

Today, yet another beautiful, warm and cloudless Drome day and sitting down to one of our favourite pieces of French patisserie, I decided that a little research was due about the Mille-Feuille.  Its translation means a thousand leaves and it is also known in some parts of France as a Napoleon.

Its origins stem back to 1651 when a description was first given and typically it is made up of three layers of puff pastry alternating with two layers of creme patissiere.  Sometimes this pastry cream can be substituted with jam - for us that's a desperately poor substitute!  The top layer can be dusted with confectionary sugar but more usually and in our case preferred, it is covered with icing or fondant and finished with brown stripes made from chocolate.

All we know is that they are the perfect accompaniment to a good filter coffee and that no one back home seems able to produce them to the standard of a time served French Patissier.

It's been a slow news day here so I hope you don't mind a little background on our daily eating habits?