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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Life in rural France - Food - Friends - Wine - Cheese - Comments
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,
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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. 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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