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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. Not that I will limit myself to food only. There are numerous posts concerning life in France, comments on life in general and, certainly, opinions about anything that strikes my fancy.
I welcome your comments and promise to publish all of them good & bad so long as they're not offensive, pornographic or rude.   If you have some good recipes you'd like to share 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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Life's Complicated, but We're Getting There!

Things continue to progress satisfactorily, but not without complications.

. of being much larger than our friend's little studio. Mind you, the studio was great! Beautifully thought out and equipped, cozy & everything worked, but small for two adults & a large dog. The free tomatoes were great though! What great friends we have!

We'll be in the new place until September 24th when we complete on our new permanent house 7 can start moving in. A good thing too as our good friend from California, Joyce, has arrived for a weeks visit. The new place has 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, a very well equipped kitchen, a swimming pool & great views. Lucky us!

Our major complication concerns cars. Our little blue car has been out of commission for weeks. I made the mistake of tewlling the garage that I wasn't in a hurry. So they've been working on it in their spare time. Then last Sunday when I tried to start the Merc nothing happened. The engine just didn't turn over. Tried jumper cables to no avail. So I called the garage and they came & towed it away after trying all the things I'd already tried. They arranged to loan us a car the next day. Its a fairly old Renault, it runs fine once you get it going. The problem is that you have to go through this complicated sequence with the key & the remote locking before the engine will start. No air conditioning either & its been hot. Still beggars can't be choosers they say.

She of unbounded generosity ended up inviting 7 people for lunch yesterday. Two local friends who wanted to see Joyce plus two English friends who were vacationing near Toulouse. Needless to say the English friends got a bit lost as they plugged in Parisot to  SatNav, but it took them to the wrong Parisot. Anyway they finally arrived and we had a nice lunch.

I don't have time to write out the recipes now, but there are a couple I'll share later. We has toasted bread rounds rubber with garlic cloves, then rubbed with nice ripe tomatoes & then topped with an anchovy fillet as a nibble. Our starter was green beans & mushrooms with shallots, toasted walnuts and creamy vinaigrette. (very tasty). The main course was slow roasted shoulder of lamb with potatoes, carrots & leeks. Dessert was a great fresh fruit salad.
All in all a nice meal with some good wines to keep the conversation going.

Garage called this morning. We'll get the Merc back on Monday. It was a bad starter motor. 500€ worth! We were planning on buying a new car anyway, but the motor could have packed up a bit later!

We're off to our favorite restaurant for lunch, Le Vieux Pont in Belcastel. We're taking our friends who loaned us their studio as a gesture of thanks for their generosity. Should be fun.

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