Still very busy!

Just a little update to say that we are still very busy at La Vieille Grange.
Our B&B seems to be going from strength to strength. We have however booked a week off next week. We thoroughly enjoy doing it but we need to get some of our jobs done around the place.
This week we took the opportunity to try out a couple of our own meal creations and I am pleased to say they went down very well and are now on the menu. One was something that should not work but does. We cooked two nice fat Toulouse sausages wrapped in ham and then baked them inside a Brioche loaf which is a sweet cakey bread. The sweetness of the bread and the savoury sausage taste just great together. We also did a twist on breakfast. We baked soft rolls. Scooped the inside of the rolls out to form a bowl. We then added to the bread rolls beans, scrambled eggs and sausage chunks and a rasher of bacon. Very Yummy!
My friend Jean-Paul and I have a lot of jobs at the bread oven to get done as we are very busy with bookings for bread making and baking demonstrations.  This year in August we are having another three day festival of bread making and baking. It has been growing year on year and is now one of the biggest festivals in the region. Over the festival weekend I will bake over one thousand French Boules. These are all sold and the money is then donated to all the local causes such as the elderly, the homeless and some of the poorer children in school. We raise every year with the festival and our demonstrations over  25,000 Euro and after expenses and insurance costs to set up the festival it all gets given away to all the various charities. The other main purpose is to keep the tradition of bread making alive and well. I never in a million years thought whilst walking around on the top of Esso tankers and running three petrol stations that one day I would be living in France teaching French people how to make French bread, it's just very weird!
After really lovely weather it turned really nasty with wind, rain and storms. Bretagne is very green so the rain does have it's benefits and the sun will soon return so we have that to look forward to.
Sunday morning we are off to a brunch at a new restaurant run by an English couple and I am supplying some bread for the Chef to 'Critique'. They have done a brilliant job of the renovation and it's the way I would have it if it were mine.
Time for bed!

Wow! Another busy week at La Vieille Grange.

It's been another rewaeding week running our B&B. We now have it all off to a fine art I am pleased to say but as is the way we are always learning.