Saumon Norbert

Not  many people know of Saumon Norbert. That’s because it is a recipe we developed at Kerrouet House and named it after one of our students (Norman Hatcliff) who was celebrating his 65 birthday with us! It’s a simple and delicious dish and I am sure you will love it! 

Ingredients:

150g/5.5ozs of salmon filet per person 

1 red onion diced

1 red pepper diced

1 green pepper diced 

1 yellow pepper diced 

1 roll of goats cheese sliced

Method

Preheat oven to 240C/460F

Make an insertion in the middle of each salmon filet and insert the slice of goats cheese. Sprinkle the mix of vegetables on top. Place the salmon filets on greased baking paper and season with salt and pepper. Bake the salmon for 10 minutes. Serve with salad and a dash of basil oil. 

A trip around Dinan Market

Dinan is a lovely medieval town with its very own port on the River Rance. It has a wonderful historic city centre with outstanding architectural merit. Every Thursday morning our students have a choice to visit the food market and sample a galette saucisson (galette sausage with onions and mustard wrapped up in a buckwheat pancake - one of Brittany’s best fast food delights!

One is never enough!!

Brittany is the home of beautiful hydrangeas

Street artists are never far away

The art of a good galette is in the wrist

Join a queue and you won’t go wrong

It’s asparagus season!

The wild boar are plenty about

Brittany is the fruit and vegetable centre of France


Brittany now has its very own Pastis and it’s delicious!

The French Show London 2012

Well we survived the French Show and London too. It was a hectic few days but very rewarding on so many different levels. We met hundreds of lovely people all doing just what we are doing - following their dreams and making their business in France work. There were numerous estate agents selling French property and these were surprisingly very busy (what recession?) with lots of interest from well heeled visitors. The English still love France according to Owen Coke (A Place in Brittany) who was exhibiting at the show. This was reiterated by Frederick Bonneau (Manoir de la Vigniere) who was kept very busy dealing with a constant queue of enthusiastic visitors. It was also nice to see three other cooking schools (including Isabelle Mellinger - Spoontrip) exhibit their programmes. We were impressed by the number of people who expressed interest in our courses. Things are definitely busier than ever this year and we are already taking bookings for summer 2013! We had the pleasure of meeting the acclaimed musician, Frederick La Verde, who enthralled everyone with his performances playing his extraordinary mobile piano! We were also delighted to meet Rudolf Junginger of Art de Brique who has some wonderful architectural designs for your new home in France!

We were also introduced to French Radio London. This is London’s first terrestrial French language radio station, broadcasting 24/7 on DAB, on the Internet and on their iPhone App. Created to serve London’s 400,000 French residents, they not only air internationally renowned French titles, but believe that their mission is to discover new talent in French music and bring new French sounds to the UK.VIVE LA FRANCE!

French Dining School (London)


We also checked out our winter cooking school, French Dining School (London) located right in the heart of central London. Just a few minutes walk from Berkeley Square in Mayfair, this school will soon provide additional courses in French cuisine for all our cooking students from December to March each year.

Another enjoyable aspect of London life is car spotting and we simply could not resist falling in love with this little beauty!