A "chapon" is not a "Big Turkey", it's a particular rooster, it's less dry than turkey. French also eat all sorts of food like escargots during that time. The "Bûche de Noël" is less common now as it can be heavy at the end of the meal :D New Year is usually celebrated between friends and Christmas mainly with family. It may not the best time to visit Europe unless you are invited to someone's home as most places will be closed for Christmas. My French family used to gather at my grandfather's guests pavilion or my uncle old and cold manor... The Children often had a table apart so they had more fun and didn't bothered the adults. My Lombard Italian family gathered at my more humble grandmother's house, we ate Cotechino with lentils, Torrone, Panettone, Risotto ai funghi porcini and the same "chapon" (Cappone ripieno)...
Got to watch this next to our Christmas tree with Mom today, it almost felt like you were here! Love you sister! Love you Paul! I really enjoy watching you're family and friends get featured and talk about their experiences there too! Sending hugs and so much love!♥️♥️♥️
I think Father Christmas climbing a rope ladder has been up continually on a house in a nearby village for 4 years. He is now nearly all black and hanging on by one hand. Some french have a habit of leaving their outside decorations up all year…and beyond ❤️🙏🦙
I spent one Christmas in France with my host family and we did 3 different Christmas feasts, all with different main courses. We had pork with porto wine sauce, white sausages with apples and chestnuts (les boudins blancs), fish with salted butter sauce (beurre blanc) and chicken with mushroom sauce. The only common component was the seafood. It was definitely an experience😀
Watching this a while after Christmas lol, but I live in Bordeaux and I get my gingerbread house kits at ikea every year! I’m guessing they would have them in every ikea if there’s one in your area :)
You want Gingerbread....this company in France has been in business longer than the USA has been a country.....and it’s big and family owned and been making them the same way for from the start.......and it is in Strasbourg www.fortwenger.fr/
That's the thing the gingerbread tradition is more an up North (and North East at that) tradition so being that she's in Aix En Provence she's not exactly in the best part of France for anything gingerbread. Hell the gingerbread she saw at Botanica with Paul was "Pain D'épice aux cristaux de sucre" you know the way it's enjoyed in LILLE ! Lol as in , in my city ...
I can’t wait to go to Strasbourg and experience their Christmas Market and while I’m there I’ll have to look into this company. Thanks so much for sharing.
Let me know your families Christmas Traditions in the comments down below. Also if you’re from France please let me know if I missed any interesting facts, I’d love to learn more. My family and I have a tamale squad every year and we celebrate on Christmas Eve with lots of music, food and laughter. Merry Christmas!
Well your hubby being from Aix-En-Provence I think I'm gonna discover how it is in that region of France from my cocitizens thanks to you ! (yeah I didn't watch the video yet) And given that Lille and it's area used to be part of the County of Flanders , if I start sharing mine your hubby will go "But that's sound like a weird mix of Belgium and Picard christmas" to which I would go ... "Brother ... have you looked at the French map lately :P ^^"
Wait we DO have eggnog but being you're indeed in the South of France you're not in a region where it is appreciated look up "Lait de Poule" we do make it at Christmas time just not all over France. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lait_de_poule Hell in Madame de Bovary (a classic of French literature) the author mocks her because she drinks it at any day of the year. Also "Un Chapon" (a capon in english) is a neutered rooster that has been fed with more fatty seeds and doesn't get to drink water but actually is served a cocktail of almond and oat and hazelnut milk for what he gets to drink. The result is a more muscular and fattier animal (I mean with the amount of highly metabolizable proteins - for a rooster - that he's being fed it's not too surprising) And also ironically his flesh is therefore also tasting a bit more milky (again not too surprising given he only drank veggie milk his whole life ) "Dinde fourée aux marrons" is indeed a classic , and "Chapon" can be stuffed in all kinds of different stuffings depending on the region. Over here in northern France "Chapon fourré aux marrons et aux Speculoos"
@@sig4311 thanks for always coming in with all the facts! I love it. I didn’t know they had egg nog, I haven’t seen it anywhere in Aix. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎄
@@SamFournier Happy Holydays to you too and by the way the "Holyday clusterfuck" doesn't end with New Year's eve over here in France :p I can't wait to see your videos about discovering "La galette des rois" for epiphany and to see which filling is traditional in Aix en Provence in other words is it a frangipane region or an apple sauce region. And then a video about "Crèpes Day" aka candelmas (La Chanedeleur in French ) telling your viewers all about how much it is really acceptable to spend a whole day stuffing yourself with nothing but crèpes. Speaking of which maybe we will get to see you trying to flip some crèpes thanks to this vegan crèpes recipe : www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_crepes-vegan_337324.aspx By the way Marmiton is a legit wiki of cooking in France people come sharing their recipe or their variants of recipes they saw on the site, so it's a place where it can be useful to go when you wanna find a vegan spin on a traditional french recipe. For real Marmiton has been and still is a life saver for vegan expats trying to live to adapt to French life without sacrificing their veganism. :) Hell why wait for the crèpes day to do so "French traditional holydays recipe but with a vegan spin" what about finding a vegan "galette des rois" as well ? Let's see .... *searches searches* Ah Ha ! Here : www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_galette-des-rois-vegan_382438.aspx And for a "accidentaly vegan" pate feuilleté let me recommend you this one no butter no eggs : HERTA TRESOR DE GRAND MERE Pâte Feuilletée épaisse 280g , here I'll even give you a link to the product page so that you see what the package looks like : www.herta.fr/univers-produits/tresor-grand-mere/herta-tresor-grand-mere-pate-feuilletee-epaisse-280g-0 Another thing that's cool is that marmiton allows you to make a brand recommendation when you post a recipe that way vegans know what to pick when there is no product advertising that they have no animal products in their food product.
@@sig4311 there’s a Crepes day? Omg, that is amazing! I’m lucky to have an amazing vegan patisserie in Aix where we are getting the Buche de Noel. I’m sure I’ll find other holiday delicacies there😍
