NEW SECOND EDITION - OCTOBER 2016
Our Frugal Summer In Charente: An Expat’s Kitchen Garden Journal - nominated as one of the 'Top 50 Self-Published Books Worth Reading' in the Read Freely Awards 2015.
Amazon Reader Review quote:
"5 stars for Our frugal summer.
I am a foodie!! .loved this book inciting her frugal lifestyle, with superb recipes and life in charente. a must read. by angela."
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 5 chickens, 4 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.
Book club members say:
"Sarah has a wonderful writing style and a lively sense of humour and the subject matter of this book was an entertaining and interesting change. This author has taken me out of my comfort zone nationwide and I'm so glad she did. Try it you will love it." Reviewer -swnseajac
"The great thing about this particular book is that it is about forgetting what we don't have, and taking instead what we do, and making the most of it. This is a principle the author seems to apply to her life, also and that comes across clearly in the memoir sections." Reviewer - Margaret
Our Frugal Summer In Charente: An Expat’s Kitchen Garden Journal - nominated as one of the 'Top 50 Self-Published Books Worth Reading' in the Read Freely Awards 2015.
Amazon Reader Review quote:
"5 stars for Our frugal summer.
I am a foodie!! .loved this book inciting her frugal lifestyle, with superb recipes and life in charente. a must read. by angela."
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 5 chickens, 4 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.
Book club members say:
"Sarah has a wonderful writing style and a lively sense of humour and the subject matter of this book was an entertaining and interesting change. This author has taken me out of my comfort zone nationwide and I'm so glad she did. Try it you will love it." Reviewer -swnseajac
"The great thing about this particular book is that it is about forgetting what we don't have, and taking instead what we do, and making the most of it. This is a principle the author seems to apply to her life, also and that comes across clearly in the memoir sections." Reviewer - Margaret
