A Cozy Day in Our Village: Chestnut Cake, Bay Leaves & A Sunset by the Sea

in autumn color and the mountains around. Oh, look! It looks like the Titanic! Our mountain stays almost always green. There are just a few red trees and by the way one alpinist. We have lots of alpine trails around the village and the village itself is so quiet. One of two restaurants is closed for the season. There are less visitors. It's very very quiet now. We are preparing today a chestnut cake because it was the season of chestnuts. We haven't made this cake for one year. Last time it was exactly one year ago. We have the sugar, the butter and it's a Wednesday. How do you say it in English? Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Okay, today is the Wednesday and we don't have a school. Yes! Every Wednesday there are no school for kids. It's super, super, super good today. I just noticed that there are a hole right in the middle of the bag. First aid. We'll add one tablespoon of honey. Do you remember the honey that we bought in the medieval village? This is almond powder and you can add even more. More is better. Oh, we never can find anything in this house. Now I have already boiled chardonnay and we will chop it. Well, we made this cake a year ago with chestnuts but if you replace the chestnuts with any other ingredients, this is our favorite cake recipe of all time. We love to do, I discovered that we love a banana cake and which is absolutely not French and of course with chocolate inside. Yeah and this time of the season we are enjoying a chestnut. Now the cake will go to the oven for 40 minutes so I have quite a time now to do another thing. Obviously, cleaning a little bit but what I really want to do is we have a dry bay leaves that we collected this summer, late summer, so it's already dry. And now I need to put it in a jar so let's do it. I already mentioned before that I harvest the herbs around our mountains because it's a part of my meditation. And we have flowers, our bougalier is in flower now. Every time I look the enormous bougaliers in other villages I am like really really impressed because my own is so small. You remember this is a Grimaud village. I've been here this summer and yeah I was amazed by all bougalier that they have everywhere and it seemed that it grows so easy, not easy for mine and this is really funny. Seriously, well, never give up. It's been already three years. Yeah, maybe one day. Back to the herbs. I have not much. It's almost gone. This is rosemary which I think I have to collect again. This is also rosemary but it's turned red or something. I have to drop it off. It didn't dry well. And bay leaves, not so many but we're gonna fix it right now. There are lots of bay leaves around, the same as other herbs. The one herb that I really miss around our village is oregano. Last time I collected it on my trip to Provence but with other herbs we have no problem especially with the bay leaves. Any time of the year, everywhere. I remember some of you was asking if I homeschool Matt. No, we don't. We have a beautiful school right in the village. A very small school with a few kids. So I prefer that he goes there and have fun with other kids and you know. The cake is ready. Oh look, a cat. I don't know this one. This afternoon we decided to go down to the sea. It's still very hot and we don't know for how long it will last. So we try to enjoy every day. We are in our favorite spot again. So how are you, my dears? I hope everything is good and you have good plans for weekend or no plans at all and you'll stay quiet at home and enjoy very little simple things around us. In any case, I wish you a great time and I thank you so much for watching our videos and take care. We love you all and we will see you very very soon. Bisous!