French Kitchen Lessons

Travel to a farmhouse in Normandy to learn to cook with the seasons, shop at the green markets, and adapt traditional French cooking techniques with modern twists.

In 2010, Cat Bude and her husband left their jobs in Seattle, packed up their house and their kids, and moved to a run-down, rambling farmhouse in Normandy, France.

French Kitchen Lessons shares the joys of and recipes from French country life. It offers classic French staples like pastry doughs, mother sauces, and stocks, then teaches you how to transform them into dishes to share at your table every season. Recipes range from traditional like Boeuf Bourgignon, to those with modern twists like a savoury Paris-brest, and are all inspired by the French market-to-table tradition.

Cat Bude is a writer, blogger, and cooking instructor. She moved to Normandy in 2010 and started a blog, Rabbit Hill Lifestyle where she shares her life. She also hosts cooking classes out of her renovated 17th century French farmhouse.