It’s the 4th year we’ve spent Christmas in Giens, and every year we’ve stayed in the same house. It’s a beautiful 2 storey house designed and built in the 1950′s. It’s full of interesting angles, colours and different materials.
Our 2 Storey House in Giens
On sunny days I love the way the light cascades along the veranda into the open plan living room. The house is built to endure very hot weather, but there is something about the winter light that just creates a beautiful setting.
The Veranda
The other benefit of coming here in the winter (apart from the lack of crowds) is that we also get to enjoy the inside of the house, something we wouldn’t do if it was 30 degrees. We’d just be sat around the pool instead!
Emilie Hard at Work
Posted on : 28-12-2009 | By :
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Travel
We were out for a bit of a walk earlier, and stumbled upon this spooky looking abode.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Tree House” now ;-)
Posted on : 28-12-2009 | By :
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Travel
It’s been such a busy few months at Milk and Honey, but we’ve finally managed to have a little break and head down the the Cote D’Azur for a few days. We’re staying on a little peninsular called Giens in a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
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There isn’t a great deal to do here but I guess that’s the whole point. It’s just a perfect opportunity to spend some time with our family away from the madness which is our normal life. Yesterday we had lunch on the Veranda, went for a walk on the beach (windy but exhilarating) and spent 3 hours enjoying each others company over dinner.
Posted on : 21-12-2009 | By :
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Food & Drink
Ever wondered what to do with left over Christmas Pudding?
One of our Milk and Honey competition winners contacted us recently with this fantastic recipe from Waitrose she discovered at Taste of Christmas 2009.
Preparation time :10 minutes to 15 minutes
Cooking time : 8 minutes to 10 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
200g leftover, cooked Christmas pudding
50ml essential Waitrose Whipping Cream
4 sheets of La Petite Maison Feuilles de Brick Pastry
4tsp Cooks’ Ingredients Cinnamon Sugar
Method
Preheat the oven to 200C, gas mark 6. Break up the Christmas pudding into pieces and mix with the cream until smooth. Spoon into a piping bag with a straight nozzle.
Lay out the pastry sheets and pipe a cigar-sized line of the pudding mix lengthways along the middle of the pasty. Fold over the pastry lengthways and roll into a cigar shape.
Place on a baking tray and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until crisp and serve with Waitrose Mince Pie Ice-Cream.
Simple! For full details please check out the recipe on the Waitrose website.
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You’re probably wondering why we haven’t posted in a while. Well there are actually two reasons for this:
1. We’ve been rushed off our feet with Christmas orders over at The Milk and Honey Boutique
2. We’ve been developing our new blog in the background.
So if you’re reading this now, you’re probably looking at our wonderful new blog! Having exhausted all the possibilities with Blogger we’ve decided to move over to WordPress (hurrah!) and we’re very happy with the outcome. Have a look around – you’ll find all your favourite posts still here, and if you have subscribed via RSS they you don’t need to update any links as we’ve done it all for you!
As normal service has now been resumed, you can expect plenty of new posts from now on..!
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Our 2 Storey House in Giens
The Veranda
Emilie Hard at Work
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