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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Bake Day Thursday


One of our favorite cookbooks is the Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Baking. We have sampled and enjoyed many of its recipes. We particuarly like the rugelachs which are made with cream cheese. RXC has not tried this recipe since moving to France as we needed to find a cream cheese substitute. Thanks to a list of substitutes for American ingredients in David Lebovitz's blog, we found a substitue in the local supermarket for a trial. Well it worked just fine and the rugelachs are delicious. And since the oven was on, it became pizza night with a few pitas to put in the freezer.

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