Our Frugal Summer in Charente

Sarah Jane's Travel Memoirs Series, #3

Nonfiction, Home & Garden, Gardening, Vegetables, Food & Drink, International, European, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Sarah Jane Butfield ISBN: 9781503080362
Publisher: Sarah Jane Butfield Publication: January 16, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Sarah Jane Butfield
ISBN: 9781503080362
Publisher: Sarah Jane Butfield
Publication: January 16, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

Our Frugal Summer in Charente: An Expat’s Kitchen Garden Journal
Meet Sarah Jane, a woman with a reputation for culinary catastrophe who tries to keep her family fed in challenging circumstances in rural France. Frugal living was not part of the plan when they arrived from Australia to undertake the renovation of a quaint cottage in the Charente. However, when life throws them a curve-ball the challenge was set. How to survive in France with very little money and two Australian cattle dogs. The answer came in the form of five chickens, four ducks and a vegetable garden! The frugal plan was to save money by any means possible, to enable any money they could earn to be invested into continuing the renovation of the cottage. In true ‘Good Life’ style Sarah Jane attacks this challenge head on by keeping some small livestock and converting a garden, that resembled a meadow, into a French ‘potager’ or kitchen garden.The French tradition of using produce from their ‘potagers’ is renowned for enabling families to create meals that are healthy, cost effective and simple.
There are 31 recipes for a variety of food and drinks, included in a month by month account, of how they transformed a neglected garden into a frugal yet productive expat kitchen garden.

Comments from the beta readers:
“The photographs are a great addition and they enhance the visual conception of the challenges you faced and the results you achieved.” John Brewer
“A thoroughly enjoyable read, written in your usual honest and down to earth style.” Carol Peden. 

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Our Frugal Summer in Charente: An Expat’s Kitchen Garden Journal
Meet Sarah Jane, a woman with a reputation for culinary catastrophe who tries to keep her family fed in challenging circumstances in rural France. Frugal living was not part of the plan when they arrived from Australia to undertake the renovation of a quaint cottage in the Charente. However, when life throws them a curve-ball the challenge was set. How to survive in France with very little money and two Australian cattle dogs. The answer came in the form of five chickens, four ducks and a vegetable garden! The frugal plan was to save money by any means possible, to enable any money they could earn to be invested into continuing the renovation of the cottage. In true ‘Good Life’ style Sarah Jane attacks this challenge head on by keeping some small livestock and converting a garden, that resembled a meadow, into a French ‘potager’ or kitchen garden.The French tradition of using produce from their ‘potagers’ is renowned for enabling families to create meals that are healthy, cost effective and simple.
There are 31 recipes for a variety of food and drinks, included in a month by month account, of how they transformed a neglected garden into a frugal yet productive expat kitchen garden.

Comments from the beta readers:
“The photographs are a great addition and they enhance the visual conception of the challenges you faced and the results you achieved.” John Brewer
“A thoroughly enjoyable read, written in your usual honest and down to earth style.” Carol Peden. 

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