A Garden In Burgundy 2018
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A chronological collection of images from a year in The Hungry Cyclist Lodge gardens. The ideal place to unwind after a days cycling and wine tasting in the vineyards of Burgundy.
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A Hot Tub In Burgundy
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I like to to collect things. A brocante is my favorite place to be and I have been known to come back with more things from the tip then I dropped of. Marginal returns I like to call them. So when a good friend offered me an oak wine fermenting vat, I dint hesitate.
Read MoreAsparagus with Dijon mustard Mousseline
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Asparagus is at its best when served simply, as with this classic French sauce.
Read MoreBuy The Thirsty Cyclist Wine in The UK
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As January draws to a close, the excesses of the holiday season are now a distant memory and it's time to start thinking about wine again. We are proud to announce that our delicious house red, The Thirsty Cyclist, Beaujolais Lantignié Rouge 2016 is now available in The UK from the fine folk at The Wine Beagle.
Read MoreA Garden in Burgundy 2017
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As the year goes bye I am never without the handy camera on my mobile phone, and below is a chronological collection of photographs I have posted on Instagram.
Read MoreFrench Onion Soup with Bovril & Comte
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In the dark depths of winter, few recipes warm the soul more than a steaming bowl of French onion soup. At this time of year little grows in the garden but the sets of onions drying in the cellar are at their best.
Read MoreParmentier de Confit de Canard
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For all its 'bucolic romance' picking grapes in Burgundy is back-breaking work. Seemingly endless days are spent bent-double, snipping at sticky grapes while steadily hiking up hill. The work is relentless and monotonous and high point of each day is lunch!
Read MoreAn Easy Tarte Tatin
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There is no dish that represents autumnal French comfort food like a Tarte Tatin. Slow-cooked apples from the tree, sweet caramel loaded with butter and a puff pastry that crumbles and oozes in equal measure, all come together for what has rightfully become a culinary French classic.
Read MoreIntroducing The Thirsty Cyclist
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Lantignié is an exceptional off-the-beaten-path terroir of the Beaujolais that faces due south on the slopes below the Avenas pass. Here the granite subsoil is full of rare and precious minerals such as quartz, fluorspar and baryte, that provide plenty of fuel to the vines and complexity to the wines.
Read MoreThe Hungry Cyclist Lodge Is Open - 2017
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Another winter passes by, spring is in bloom and once again it is time to roll away the stone on The Hungry Cyclist Lodge for another busy season.
Read MoreGrand Marnier Creme Caramel & Kumquat Marmalade
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Inspired by these welcome addition to an otherwise uninspiring trip to the local market, here is a recipe for a Grand Marnier Creme Caramel with a Kumquat marmalade. With a mirror-smooth caramel topping, velvet texture and zesty marmalade, this easily prepared desert is welcome as a warm afternoon and hints at better times to come.
Read MoreJerusalem Artichoke & Mussel Soup
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Digging over some beds to keep warm and take on a little sport the tubers of Jerusalem artichokes appear like forgotten treasure. Thats where I planted them. Bursting forth in spindly yellow flowers in the summer months, this relative of the sun slower goes to ground in the winter reproducing countless tubers. Leave a morsel behind when dogging and rest assured next year you will have kilos of the things.
Read MoreThe Times 50 Best Holidays In France 2017.
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It was a huge honour to have The Hungry Cyclist Lodge feature in The Times 50 Best Holidays in France for 2017. Joining an impressive list of holidays from family donkey walking in The Ardeche to hiking in Corsica, we could not have been happier to make the final cut at number 18. You can read their kind words here or click this link and logon to The Times website.
Read MoreTerroir To Table - Discover The Organic Food & Wine Of Burgundy
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Burgundy is the most fascinating wine region in the world. Nowhere else on earth is fine-wine made in such small quantities, in so many different ways by so many different winemakers. All with the singular goal of making a wine, that is in their minds, the perfect expression of the plot of land from where the vines are reared.
Read MoreSalmorejo Recipe - A Chilled Soup for A Summers Night
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2016 hasn't been the best of years in Burgundy for the wine production, but in the garden we have been blessed with a fine year for tomatoes. The late frosts of April that devastated the vineyards, didn't get a chance to attack the tomatoes vines. A soaking wet June was followed by a searing hot summer, and with little rot and plenty of dry heat our tomatoes have thrived.
Read MoreA Wedding In Burgundy
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On August 6th we had the honour of hosting Lauren and Adam Richardson’s for their wedding at The Hungry Cyclist Lodge. Arriving from all over the world, seventy of the bride and grooms family and friends, came to Auxey-Duresses to celebrate Adam and Lauren’s special day in the heart of Burgundy wine country.
Read MoreA Garden In Burgundy - Summer 2016
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"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."
Read MoreBrocantes: Junk Shop Joy In France
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Among my childhood memories of summer holidays in France – seemingly endless car journeys, fighting with my older sister on the back seat, Dire Straits on the cassette player – one stands out: repeated stops at localbrocantes (junk shops).
My parents seemed to suffer from some kind of affliction – they were physically unable to drive past a brocante sign. My mother even had a knack of waking from a doze just as a sign appeared: “Look, a brocante!” And we would abruptly pull over.
Read MoreA Visit from Neil Gower
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I first met Neil Gower in 2009. Having spent the previous three years either on the saddle of my bicycle in the Americas or hidden away in Tooting library writing about my travels. Neil was commissioned by Harper Collins to illustrate my journey and words.
Read MoreSaucisse de Morteau and Butter Bean Casserole
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In our cellar a few lonely root vegetables lurk, and after months in the dark they are starting to soften a little and need eating. Butter beans and other pulses are always in stock as well, and these hearty beans always soak up plenty of flavour and add some well needed protein for the muscles after a days cycling or digging in the garden.
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