Cookies? Or bars? Why decide? Allow us to introduce you to the love child of Mr. Cookie and Mrs. Bar, the Magic Cookie Bar… We think it will be the start of something beautiful.
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With spring underway (even if the weather Gods don’t appear to have gotten the memo) and the summer holidays just months away, we’re being bombarded with glossy magazine covers advertising bikini-body bootcamps and other various, get-yourself-beach-ready how to’s. Now, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to trim down that extra layer of warmth that [...]
I’ve made it more than halfway through my daughter’s first year of “real” French school. And I’ve survived!
CP is the equivalent to American first grade, but without the fluff and frills of American school. It’s amazing how much the kids have learned and how little time they have during the [...]
We Americans LOVE our peanut butter and we practically invented the modern cookie, so what could be more natural than a marriage between the two?!? With peanut butter now readily available in France, a reunion is definitely in order. Here’s a recipe that our French friends, Michaël & Aline from
Americans who come to France to work are warned about the special phenomenon that happens in France during the month of May. It is referred as les ponts du mois de mai, which can be translated as “the bridges of the month of May,” although that means absolutely nothing in English or in [...]
It is hard to find inspiration in the north of France in late winter. It ‘s cold; the skies are grey and it snows for 24 hours straight, without ever turning into the beautiful winters of my childhood. But nothing overcomes the winter blahs and blues quite like a nice warm muffin. A [...]
In the U.S. we like our holidays like we like our fountain sodas…BIG! Even those holidays which may or may not even directly apply to us are celebrated as though they the are. Take Saint Patrick’s Day. Irish ancestors or not, I bet you are careful to don green when March 17th rolls [...]
We’re loving the newest trend in baking… mug cakes! So easy to make and even easier to eat! A big thanks to Juliette from JuicesAndCakes for sharing this quick and easy recipe for a cookie in a cup. Enjoy a little taste of heaven in only 5 [...]
An Easter celebration just doesn’t seem complete without an evening spent dyeing Easter eggs in preparation for the Easter Bunny’s arrival. As a little girl I used to love competing with my brother and sister to see who could create the brightest, most beautiful egg. Of course, the dyeing process was easy with [...]
January through March is often the hardest time of year, expatriate or not. The hubbub that surrounded the end-of-the-year holidays has long since died down, and while the days are starting to get longer, this doesn’t help much when all it does is allow you to better see the trash and debris that the [...]
One of my fondest memories of grade school in the U.S. is the classroom holiday parties. And Valentine’s day was a definite favorite! Remember making valentine mailboxes from shoe boxes and having them filled up with Brach’s conversation hearts and cartoon- character valentines from your classmates? Barring that ultra-romantic valentine you got every [...]
Ahhhhh, Paris… city of culinary delight… gastronomic getaways galore… As both visitors to and residents of the “city of light” can attest, there is no shortage of restaurants in Paris, rather the problem is finding the “gems.” These are, unfortunately, often buried under [...]
QUESTION
I am facing what is maybe a common situation, which I struggle to find the answer to. I am non-EU citizen (American) living and working in France on the work permit. I recently got married to a French citizen. I was then told to change the status of my visa from [...]
Requests for French nationality mainly are now being met with stricter requirements from French government.
I have been addressing the question of the issuance of the carte de séjour, which grants the right to a foreigner to stay and often to work in France. My experience is that all current requests are reviewed with more [...]
If you are American, you may remember Whoopie Pies from when you were a child. They may have been called Moon Pies or even “gobs”. Really?…who wants to eat something called a gob? Let’s stick with the name whoopie pie because it’s more fun to say and when you, your friends or your children [...]
