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For those learning French, Kristi Espinasse’s blog French Word A Day is a must.  Our bloggeuse lives with her French husband and teenagers in a vineyard near Bandol and relates incidents from her daily life while introducing useful bits of vocabulary to her myriad followers – Check it out here: http://french-word-a-day.com/

Sometimes she provides a recipe and I followed one this week – a gluten-free chestnut cake which she said her guests had loved – and we loved it too.It only has three ingredients so I think the author of Simplissime (see https://aixcentric.com/2016/05/12/news-on-frances-fastest-selling-cook-book/ ) would approve.  Here goes:

500g crème de marrons vanilla, 100g butter, three eggs

• Over a medium heat, melt butter and stir in marrons
• Add beaten eggs
• Pour into greased lined cake tin
• Cook for 45 mins at 150C

Serve with strawberries or sprinkled with icing sugar or pecans.  And here’s the result. Delicious!