{"id":270,"date":"2017-05-10T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-02-26T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T10:19:55","slug":"a-summer-in-france-at-la-cloche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/a-summer-in-france-at-la-cloche\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summer in France at La Cloche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am back from the Falklands for five days and it&#8217;s time to head off to the Dordogne where I shall be heading up the tiny kitchen team at La Cloche in Abjat Sur Bandiat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-344 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/P1020531-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/P1020531-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/P1020531-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/P1020531-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1940&#8217;s food and dress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First thing to think about is Edwina&#8217;s 70th. I got the job through a chum of mine from early barging days and it&#8217;s her Mum&#8217;s Birthday soon so we are organising a 1940&#8217;s party. The Menu will reflect a &#8216;Dig for victory&#8217; theme. A foraged soup to start made with Wild Sorrel, Pennywort, Dandelion, Spinach and Oxalis. Cheap cuts of meat cooked long and slow followed by Pain Perdu, which translates as lost bread, and is a take on the British Bread and Butter pud but much nicer as it&#8217;s made with the left over Croissants and Pain au Chocolate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moulin D&#8217;Abbeye<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-447 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_43-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_43-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_43-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_43-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_43.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brantome and the Moulin D&#8217;abbeye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-446 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_07-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_07-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_07-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_07-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1506-05_lemoulindelabbaye_07-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brantome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The real highlight of my Summer in the Dordogne was Brantome and the Moulin D&#8217;Abbeye. I spent a long sublime evening alone working my way through the Chef&#8217;s Degustation Menu, all seven exquisite courses of it. It was honestly the best meal I have ever tasted combined with the most superb scenery and perfect service. A definite return to &#8230; again and again<\/p>\n<p>www.moulinabbaye.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am back from the Falklands for five days and it&#8217;s time to head off to the Dordogne where I shall be heading up the tiny kitchen team at La Cloche in Abjat Sur Bandiat. First thing to think about is Edwina&#8217;s 70th. I got the job through a chum of mine from early barging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/a-summer-in-france-at-la-cloche\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Summer in France at La Cloche&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47,49,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-french-cuisine","category-gourmet","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourished.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}