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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Yesterday's Lunch


Just so I don't go on and on too much about the renovation I have included a photo of the delicious dessert I had with my lunch yesterday. We thought we would go to the Leroy Merlin in Perigueux instead of Bordeaux. Big mistake. Small store, nothing in stock. But as consolation, we ate lunch at a restaurant along the road home. It turned out to be fabulous. Most of the food was produced locally. The front page of the menu listed each producer, few were further than 10 miles away. I had a wild salmon starter that was smoked in-house. My main course was sturgeon from Montpon. There was a cheese course and then this panne cotta. Rxc had a duck meal starting with a salade perigourdine, then confit with wild mushrooms (it is morrel season), and fromage blanc with red fruit coulis instead of a selection of cheese. He had strawberries and whipped cream for dessert. The wine came from about one mile from our house.



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