The madeleine Blog

Friday is always Soup Day at my house. This is one of the handful of routines I have been able to maintain over the years, since my older children were toddlers. I can count on one hand the number of the routines I actually follow. As a rule, I tend to have difficulty sticking to any given plan. I don’t know if I should blame aging, or undiagnosed ADHD – that thing was never mentioned when I was growing up, and tends to still be ignored in France, as far as I can see. Maybe i

I would never have imagined writing two consecutive posts about figs. I enjoy figs, don’t get me wrong. But not the way I gobble up plump...

Photo Adobe Stock I haven’t done much cooking lately and haven’t felt much of an urge to cook either. Somehow days and evenings go by and...