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   Welcome to French Food Focus. The name describes the intent of this blog. I'll focus on food and because I live in rural   
   France the stress will be upon French food.  There are numerous posts concerning life in France and, certainly, opinions
   about anything that strikes my fancy.
   If you have some good recipes  or if you want to rave about any great French restaurants this  is the place to do it.

 I hope you enjoy my ramblings about rural France! 

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This is our village. Our house is the white one at the top right.                      

A new twist on an old recipe 

A favorite dish especially this time of year in the midst of tomato season is the Italian standard of Tomatoes with mozzarella some basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. A lovely fresh and simple dish which I have always enjoyed. The other day I has some beautiful large tomatoes, but no mozzarella; just a hankering for the dish.

This is what I came up with.

The local shop always has brie on hand so I went up & bought some. Now I was ready.

A slice of tomato then a slice of brie on top of that (you can cut off o leave the rind as you prefer) then another slice of tomato, then brie and so on until you have enough layers. Now sprinkle on some nice olive oil followed by a vinegar of your choice. (I used plain red wine vinegar, but sherry or white wine should work well. I don't think balsamic would be right.) Now some sea salt crystals and a grinding of pepper. The final touch is a generous sprinkle of fresh thyme.

Voila! As we say here; that's it. I must say that it turned out beautifully. The flavors work very well together. Its important that the brie be ripe, but not runny ripe. Just ripe enough to bring out the flavor. I suspect that Camembert might work pretty well also.

Haven't thought of a name for this yet, but I'm open to suggestions.