Poets, painters and puddings. These three things make the world as it ought to be.

Picnic at Lac St Croix

Kate packed our picnic and off we trotted to the lac St Croix , the day was glorious, we were alone on a vast stretch of pebble beach along the shore of the lake, our picnic consisted of delights we had bought from the market and various things we had made.

The veggie terrine, pesto sauce, thai rice and broad bean salad, tapenade, strawberries and goats cheese, wild boar salami, organic whole wheat bread, fresh salad with herbs from the garden. Oh yum yum, absolute bliss and we sat and looked and meditated and closed our eyes in the beauty of it all.

My Plate of food with a rather splendid back drop.

Green Almonds Blue Sky

Roasted Vegetable Terrine with tomato, orange and cardomen sauce.

It is tuesday, market day in Lorgues and a day of catching up on things horrid, accounts, taxes, desk sorting, getting prepared for things lovely, the wedding, loads of work to do for the wedding, and I shall try to catch up with my blog pages.

My friend has gone home, and we cooked up a storm, I have value added fat on my stomach but every mouthful that added to the value was well worth the extra. The week went very well, we went to the markets and chose our food, we worked out fabulous menu's, each one containg a whole learning process, how to fillet a fish, how to make a fumet, how to hold a knife, it is suprising all the little things that I take for granted and think that other people will know, when infact they don't, so the whole week was a great learning experience for me as well as Kate.

I have to walk the dogs and go to the tax office, but this week I am going to give you the menu's and my recipe's so that you can try them out at home and tell me what you think.