Culinary Retreat with Shannon & Wlady Grochowski

Meet Shannon Grochowski, our hostess at the culinary retreat. I will post mostly photos..the wi-fi at Abbaye de Reigny was a tad slow…

The aroma of molten Valrhona chocolat is in the air. We inhale 👃 only the best chocolate 🍫 

immersing ourselves in 🍫 chocolat. We made pink Champagne 🍾 ganache.

 Immersion in délicieux, fruity Burgundian Chablis for the wine 🍷 tasting at Cuisine Angeline.

Immersion in

The Burgundian landscape (early morning mist)

Noon - where Vlady & Shannon live 

In Milly-le-Château in the Yon Vallé, 

When not making luxury, gourmet chocolates in Butte, Montana at La Chatelaine.

Vlady & Shannon have a few lucky guests quarterly

To their lovely haven by a cool, babbling brook

Breakfast at the Abbey was at 8:00 am

The l’Abbey is 

Quite glorious (not my bedroom).

Things we ate

Shannon bakes us her elderflower cake the last night,

With homemade lemon curd & her strawberry jam inside.

Solli, Jane Hope & I were visiting “artistes” . We stayed in the annex.

I set up an ‘atelier’ painting the pink 🌸 peonies I bought at Jardins,Jardin.

We visited the town where the film Chocolat was made.

Flavigny-sur-Ozerain,renown for their famous tins of traditional bonbons 🍬

The candy museum was fun and educational.

A classic Burgundian medieval town 

In Noyer, the others took a ride in a caleche, while I scouted out some Burgundy snails 🐌 

The last evening at Shannon & Vlady’s, I put my feet in their cool brook. What a lovely 4 days 🌸

🍫Big Merci Vlady & Shannon Grolchowski ❤️

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