I’d love to taste the ‘galette des rois’.
January 6th goes unnoticed here.
Rosemary Kneipp
January 9th, 2017 at 9:40 pm
You can begin a new tradition!
Lesley
January 6th, 2017 at 11:01 am
Your tiramisu sweet sponge lady fingers are also Boudoirs on the packet bought here in France. I’ve just looked at the plastic box of what I’d call dog bicuits and Gamm vert have them as Récompense Education & Plaisir. The Dog does not mind what they are called.
Rosemary Kneipp
January 9th, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Ah yes, boudoirs. I had forgotten that name. I checked on the origin and it seems they were invented for Talleyrand and are called boudoir after his so-called “boudoir diplomacy”. To be verified …
I bought my dog biscuits at Leclerc. I’m disappointed. I’m sure it’s better to buy Récompenses Education & Plaisir.
That’s a really fun post about la galette des Rois! isn’t it a great tradition in France – so many traditions here are celebrated food!
Rosemary Kneipp
January 9th, 2017 at 9:49 pm
Food is a serious business in France! My daughter treated her work colleagues to a galette des rois in NYC where she now lives. She bought it from Kaiser’s but they sell the fève separately because of food allergies!!!
I’ve always found the use of the word “cake” here funny, especially the way it’s pronounced as “kek”, and a cake aux olives or the like is so often terribly disappointing, unlike the divine galette des rois! I love January and the excuse to carry on indulging in buttery pastry when other countries are “detoxing” and eating soup! Thanks for sorting out all these different definitions (another one for dogs is “croquettes pour chiens”), and thanks for linking to #AllAboutFrance. Bonne année Rosemary!
Rosemary Kneipp
January 10th, 2017 at 6:39 pm
Their pronunciation of cake is a little Scottish actually :). I think that cake aux olives has to be fresh or its inedible personally. Yes, you’re right, croquettes seems to be used almost exclusively for cats and dogs.
Bonne année to you, too, Phoebe.
Lesley
January 12th, 2017 at 10:42 am
I have thought that croquettes are the base, dry, crunchy food for dogs (and cats) that are fed instead of opening a tin/pouch of wet food. Kibble appears to cover that in the US?
Rosemary Kneipp
January 13th, 2017 at 9:01 pm
Yes, I just checked. Croquettes seem to be real food substitutes as opposed to doggy biscuits :). I haven’t put them into action yet because the trenches prevent me from going into the vegetable garden which is where I have access to the dogs I’m supposed to be training.
Just make sure you don’t reward the dogs for barking rather than teaching them to stop.
I thought about that but my brother assures me it won’t happen.
I don’t think galet or galette is used in Canadian French.
That’s interesting.
Yes,galette is used by French Canadians….
Do you have the galette tradition?
I’d love to taste the ‘galette des rois’.
January 6th goes unnoticed here.
You can begin a new tradition!
Your tiramisu sweet sponge lady fingers are also Boudoirs on the packet bought here in France. I’ve just looked at the plastic box of what I’d call dog bicuits and Gamm vert have them as Récompense Education & Plaisir. The Dog does not mind what they are called.
Ah yes, boudoirs. I had forgotten that name. I checked on the origin and it seems they were invented for Talleyrand and are called boudoir after his so-called “boudoir diplomacy”. To be verified …
I bought my dog biscuits at Leclerc. I’m disappointed. I’m sure it’s better to buy Récompenses Education & Plaisir.
That’s a really fun post about la galette des Rois! isn’t it a great tradition in France – so many traditions here are celebrated food!
Food is a serious business in France! My daughter treated her work colleagues to a galette des rois in NYC where she now lives. She bought it from Kaiser’s but they sell the fève separately because of food allergies!!!
I’ve always found the use of the word “cake” here funny, especially the way it’s pronounced as “kek”, and a cake aux olives or the like is so often terribly disappointing, unlike the divine galette des rois! I love January and the excuse to carry on indulging in buttery pastry when other countries are “detoxing” and eating soup! Thanks for sorting out all these different definitions (another one for dogs is “croquettes pour chiens”), and thanks for linking to #AllAboutFrance. Bonne année Rosemary!
Their pronunciation of cake is a little Scottish actually :). I think that cake aux olives has to be fresh or its inedible personally. Yes, you’re right, croquettes seems to be used almost exclusively for cats and dogs.
Bonne année to you, too, Phoebe.
I have thought that croquettes are the base, dry, crunchy food for dogs (and cats) that are fed instead of opening a tin/pouch of wet food. Kibble appears to cover that in the US?
Yes, I just checked. Croquettes seem to be real food substitutes as opposed to doggy biscuits :). I haven’t put them into action yet because the trenches prevent me from going into the vegetable garden which is where I have access to the dogs I’m supposed to be training.