Where is she?

That's what I bet a lot of you have been asking yourself these days.  I do have a legitimate excuse.  I just got back from my yearly week of eating and drinking with Joanne Weir.  Every year Joanne brings a group of "students" to cook with her for a week in Provence.  I have the wonderful job of planning all of our activities outside of the cooking classes.  This year the group was particularly good at following her recipes, because everything turned out perfectly, and I think I ate more last week then I usually do in a month.  We drank lots of great wines, including La Gramière. Just imagine, I get paid to do this!   One of the participants would ask, every time I poured him a glass of wine, "Is this yours? " and when I said no, he replied, "I don't like it."  Let me tell you, flattery will get you EVERYWHERE!

We stay at a beautiful place called Blanche Fleur, which I highly recommend if you're ever in the area. For a whole week we have the place to ourselves. We cook a lot, visit several markets, and taste and drink a lot of wine.  It's such great fun. If you like cooking and want to visit Provence (or Spain or Italy) I think you'd have a blast! 

Joanne is going to do her best to promote our wines (note the label stuck on her chef's coat!)

Now back to sticking stickers on boxes for Kermit!