This receipe is for Donna VanAlstine and Chris Rud, our visitors from Toronto Canada. Use preferably a roll of “pâte sablée” (kind of shortbread dough). Could be replaced by another pastry such as the puff pastry and adding some honey over the goat cheese. cut the dough in 12 round portions Lay a slice of [...]

Liz’s Salmon Rillettes At the request of our World Travelers Sabine Bessey and her husband Ebaheart, here is the receipe of Liz’s Salmon Rillettes: Get from the fish market about 200g of fresh salmon heat your oven at 200° Few drop of lemon, salt and pepper, roll your salmon inside of an aluminium sheet cook [...]

I like to serve dishes, French or fusion, that our World Visitors can discover and appreciate. Travelers from Japan love sea food but I knew enough not to feed them shrimp tempura. I treated them to a Liz’s bouillabaisse. Here is the receipe: As for all my ingredients, the fish need to be very fresh! [...]

We are lucky that our International visitors seemed to share different months of the year! Our customers word of mouth is our best advertising. Google search is also very important, keeping us busy… since  Tripadvisor somehow moved us from the Carcassonne area to the whole Department of Aude. People who have visited us know that [...]

O’Vineyards March 2013 Wall of Fame After our Australian, Singaporian and some of our frequent UK visitors, most of our recent guests came from United States. Our fun has started much earlier this year thanks to you all! We are missing the pictures of our International Peruvian Germano family. Will soon do a post on [...]

We had a great group for a Cooking Workshop! An & Philip, Jenny & Barry, Josua & Alexandra. Easter Food and Wine at O’Vineyards Carcassonne Two hours in the kitchen with Liz preparing many courses to accomodate many O’wines! See the full menu after the picture gallery! Home Cured Salmon on Canapés Spring rolls (added [...]

- Peter Aucamp, Johannesburg, South Africa - TripAdvisor Senior Contributor – Reviewed March 18, 2013: “A wonderful evening” “How fortunate to have found O’Vineyards through Tripadvisor. We spent a wonderful evening with such generous hosts were indulged with wonderful food and amazing wines. How nice to sit around one big table. A visit to the vineyards, followed [...]

Baked sliced Potato: fast and easy recipe! slice one potato per person. dip in cold water for one hour. drain and dry. spread one table spoon of duck grease on a large flat pan…..use oil if you don’t have any duck grease. spread another table spoon of oil or duck grease on the top of [...]

Back from the market with a colorful array of fresh local food!

Gary and Iola Thomas celebrated Geraint and Meinir thirtieth Anniversary. The six course meal included a colorful vegetarian stuffed green and red cabbage … and that was our vegetarian’s favorite! We did not forget the other guests who enjoyed a duck and pork confit served with the puffed potato, red pepper and cauliflower. Recipes will be [...]