tattum's kitchen

Un vin en Valbonne

A beautiful middle age village with only eight streets. Enough to fall in love with it. While the church bell rings, we taste a nice provence wine. Salute mes amies!

Cannes

Paseamos por la promenade de Cannes. Solo los mas privilegiados pueden permitirse una tumbona en el espigon, a 45€! Y me parecia caro ayer Juan les Pins...

A la plage

Juan les Pins. En la playa publica porque las privadas, aunque tres chic, son tambien tres chere. A 18€ la hamaca...

Glaces de Violete et de Rose

Nous sommes en Tourrettes, comiendo helado.

Bon Jour

After a huge breakfast with croissants, toasts, brioches, ham and cheese, 4 types of homemade jams and what was the best part, sweet figues directly taken from the tree. We are now moving to Grasse. This is a picture of the views of our room. Besos!

De la route

Nous sommes en Perpignan! I love mobloging! Besos

Barcelona!

Cenamos en El Japonés De Tragaluz, sushi superico! Meredith, Chelsea, Alvaro and me went to the Ommm Hotel for these great Cosmopolitan. Now we are looking foward a big breakfast with Pantumaca. Besos!

My Holiday Plans

You know how this summer has been for me... Alvaro and I where waiting till the last minute to make our summer holidays plans.
The best holidays for me have always been the ones I could make by car.
My parents loved France (they still do) and in our school holidays, they put us in the car and my father drove hundreds of kms till some rented house in the south of France. On our way we stopped to buy baguettes and ham, some salads, and we had lunch under a tree, making a nice picnic...I must say that I wasn't a great company at the time, I was having a hard adolescence...
The houses where rented we the help of The Gites. This is one thing I LOVE about France, The Gites. Good prices, lovely houses, lovely people to meet,...how is it that we don't have this in Spain?
I remember Draguignan, we spent a whole week in a beautiful house in the Provence and Tende in the Alpes Maritimes.
I think I was like 15 the last time I went to the Côte d'Azur, long time ago...
Now you find P Diddy, and Paris Hilton sunbathing in Saint Tropez, and you may also see me....jijiji

So, these are our plans:

Août 18 night in Barcelona
Août 19 till Août 24 Le Rouret in Côte d'Azur
Août 24 and 25 night in Cruilles in Girona

I'll soon be back with more details!
If you have nice recomendations of restaurants in the Cannes, Nice and Saint Tropez zone let me know!

If you go to San Francisco

I had lunch today in a terrible place in Madrid called La Alpargateria. I think it's a franchise, because you can find these all over Madrid.
It was terrible first because I expected something as you can see in their web page, that finally wasn't it at all. And second, because I'm still hungry....
We ordered a Tuna Carpaccio with a Vinaigrette of Olive Oil, Lemon and Soy and Mustard Essence, (o yes there was a lot of that, essence...) and a Spinach Salad with grilled Chicken in Honey Sauce. They had this Low Calories Special Menu with really good looking dishes, the prices where from 8 to 15 €...well,...the carpaccio was like whisper of what a thin layer of tuna should be, it had no taste, it didn't even taste to tuna...and like a sushi lover I know how the tuna should taste....
The salad was served in a big (I would say huge) plate, like the ones you have pasta, but it only had a few leaves of spinach and three little pieces of chicken...Alvaro was already thinking in going to McDonalds...
Why? Pleace tell me why do they do things like that? Do these people think that we are stupid? Well we are, we paid 34€ for 2 cokes and the bread, and these 2 little embarrasing and pretentious dishes. Of course I later thought that we chose from the Light Menu, it was low fat beacuse you can't get fat eating this.

Ok, but thanks to this shameless place I remebered the restaurant where we ate while we where visiting Napa. Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen is the perfect place for a summer night dinner, it has this wonderful terrace full of plants, that in my imagination is illuminated with candles.
We had lunch in the inside, and it was soooo .....
Everything is painted in white, the menu is writen with chalk in a blackboard, and everywhere you can see these black and white pictures of the owner and family. The atention was impeccable, you may be used to it if you live in the States, but here in Spain is not too often...
Even the sugar, when we ordered the coffee, was cute, brown and white irregular sugar lumps. (isn't it, Irene?)
I ordered the "Grilled Rare Ahi Tuna, peppery greens, Spanish peanuts & wasabi-tamari vinaigrette",I have no words to describe it...I only wish I had it's recipe, (or otherwise, I wish I lived in San Francisco...)

So if you have the chance, or if you're visiting the lovely vineyards, stop here to eat, you won't regret it.

Me, myself and Irene

Next to the Chinese Theatre, next to the Stars!! In LA.
No me puedo creer que estes ahi ahora! Que suerrrrrttteee!!