It is a recipe that tastes good and smells my childhood. A nice mixture between my dad'pissaladiere with my Mum'puff pastry.



A pissaladière with Breton onions... The pissaladière is a type of pizza, a white one without tomato sauce, done with onions on a bread dough. Usually anchovies are also part of this pie.
The way I do it is a bit different : I use Breton onions, the one from Roscoff, called oignons rosés or may be the Johnny'onions.
They are quite good for this onion pie... because they're sweet. Like South European onions. You need to cook them a really long time... I don't use bread dough but puff pastry instead. It's not "the real one" but it is good !

Time: two hours for the onions and cook about 45 minutes for the onions'pie.

Ingredients
2 to 3 kilograms of onions (it has to become pureed)
A little olive oil
Black olives

One to two hours of gentle cooking.
The tart should be well covered with a thick layer of onions ... more than one centimeter ... au moins. At least. Onions reduce very slowly until it becomes very soft, almost like a puree and the colour becomes khaki brown.

Ingredients for the puff pastry (pate feuilletée) to a 30cm pie
wooden spoon
160g flour
half or 80 g butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
a small glass of very cold water

Cut butter into pieces (2cm to 1) in the flour. Pour the oil. Mix. Add water little by little and mix (no fingers but with a wooden spoon) until dough is held (not necessarily very well but it does not matter).
Avoid putting too much water, your dough will be hard. And do not touch the dough with fingers. These are the two secrets to succeed for a pate feuilletée !
Pour your dough on the table and with a rolling pin, spread roughly.
Fold it again and spread...with rolling pin. Repeat this operation 5 to 6 times. Fold one last time and store at least 15 minutes in refrigerator. The more you've folded your dough, the better the puff!
When the time expired, spread the dough and pour over your onions and black olives. For 45 minutes ... Your puff pastry is done.
Enjoy with a green salad.

Read it in French : Tarte aux oignons rosés de Roscoff sans anchois

The idea is pharaonic ...
its size first: a breton valley with monumental statues (over 3 meters high) .... and its number: 1000 granite Saints ....
What a job! Most of them are still invisible, they are waiting for the sculptors to create them...



The project of the association, is to create an Easter island, a Breton one for the 3rd millennium … to glorify the memory of 1500 years of popular Breton culture ... and to protect the identity of the region.

The first Patron Saints to be carved are those who helped for the Christianization of Britain.
At St. Pol de Leon, during the summer of 2009, artists began to carve the granite and St. Pol was born. 6 other saints of Christianity have followed: Pattern, Malo, Brieuc, Corentin Tugdual and Samson. Each one done by a different artist ...

These works of art were looking for a place to stay : 9 cities have been competing to receive the project. And the city of Carnoët , central Britain, (a few kilometers from Carhaix), won the bet.

After a summer on the coast, the statues returned to their final home, the elected site Tossen Sant Gweltaz .... And the valley began to be inhabited.
The project continues ... There are still a few (!) dozens of carving statues to be done to "feed" the valley. Sponsorship (each statue-menhir is funded by a company) must allow sculptors, each year make their works in granite. From May to September, each month, 8 artists will carve a Catholic patron saint with its attributes (about forty a year). If you want to compete, go on ! The sculpture competition will go on for a while !

The association hopes to attract thousands of visitors and be a cultural crossroads site (Welsh, Irish, Cornish, Breton ...). A center of information and documentation about the Middle Ages (time when the Saints arrived in Britain), the reconstruction of a Celtic monastery and a stage to receive theatrical, musical ... will be created too.

The idea is certainly very good ... and very ambitious, for sure. An arts center to attract hikers from everywhere with a unique site in France, even in the world .... in the Center of Brittany .... (according to the Tourism Committee of Britain, visitors come overwhelmingly in the region to enjoy the coastline, coasts and sea ..). To divert the flow to the inside of Brittany, you need at least a mammoth project ... The musical festival in Carhaix, festival des vieilles charrues, is a good example of success, it is one of the biggest music scene in France...

I went to see ... this winter, these carved megaliths. It is not easy to find them... There was no sign for the precious valley. I was a bit lost in Carnoët when a nice lady told me where to go. It's in the land, park in front of a beautiful church with a beautiful Calvary and after a few meters, you'll arrive at the place which hosts the statues.



The three-meters high statues watch you from the top of the hill.

But for now, the Saints seem to be standing there ... ! and wait for friends! ... May be this outdoor celtic park in Brittany will be competing with Disneyland Paris!



Read this article in French : la vallée des saints : 1000 statues à Carnoët (Bretagne)

New Year... the time of good resolutions for everyone .... But they are not all easy to achieve ... Tobacco addiction, you know what I mean ?

There are so many methods for quitting smoking : some tips to succeed smoking cessation...

The more conventional methods rely on substitutes:
There are the traditional nicotine patch that are applied to the skin for a variable time : 16 or 24 hours depending on your addiction to nicotine and according to your needs and dependance.
The best way is to answer a few questions before choosing the "good" patch ... I have tried this method, it works.
Be careful not to play with your addiction, don't forget to use the patch at the right time because if you're late, you may suffer a crisis of lack, the nervousness or the temptation too strong to go back to a cigarette!
The patch needs over an hour to fitfull your body with nicotine !
Gums can help if you were late and therefore nervous to wait for the fulfitment of nicotine !

To quit smoking, you can try other cigarettes ... done with a mix of plants! Just in cases of emergency, the taste is no good but the gesture of smoking without nicotine will help you through !

The homeopathy offers kits to smokers : small white balls, homeopathic granules do miracles and cures you from your bad habit. Yes, the various tubes relieve your symptoms: loss, restlessness, urge to snack (even eat !)
The advantage of the white balls are that they will occupy your mouth and (as the desire does not last for hours), it should help you to avoid once more a smoke.

There are other methods: hypnosis. It does not work on everyone but for those susceptible, it is a good help. Several sessions are necessary to win the game !

More local approach, the magnetizer .... In Britain, there are still some... for shingles, to heal the baby teeth that grow painfully or for smokers ...

You may succeed trying a change of habit, to break your daily routine a few days... a method that lasts 7 days, a sort of diet, a body purification ... For one week, you change your diet: 1 day, dried fruits, fresh fruits the 2nd, 3rd day steamed vegetables and fruits .... and you focus more on what you eat (or what you miss) than on cigarettes .... Avoid weight by the same time.....

There is also the method of Allen Carr, who in his book The Simple Way to stop smoking convince you that smoking is not fun ... You read his method and over the pages, your aversion to cigarette is confirmed ...
The author is a former smoker (4 packs a day) he knows his subject well and all the pitfalls of "cigarette", the failed attempts...
You can visit the centers Allen Carr to meet people who are in the same process. You won't fell alone and lost in your addiction... So many people are like yourself...50% success says Wikipedia.

The best way to say bye bye to smoking is to combine several methods, will will also help remember that it is not easy … I know, I tried several times and managed ... for now. My smoking addiction is gone. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Read this article in French : Méthodes et méthode pour arrêter de fumer