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French-Inspired Salads: Elegance and Flavour in Every Bite

French cuisine is known for its elegance, refinement, and ability to transform simple ingredients into something extraordinary. French salads, or salades composées, are no exception. They often feature seasonal produce, fresh herbs, and high-quality ingredients like cheeses, cured meats, and classic French dressings. From the iconic Salade Niçoise to lesser-known regional favourites, French…

French-Inspired Salads: Elegance and Flavour in Every Bite

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Get 15 easy French meals recipes in the free book

Get 15 easy French meals recipes in the free book

Bring a bit of France to your home …check the top 15 easy meals you can make yourself and get the free recipe book from me. 

Exactly, if you cannot visit France or you live in France and you want to eat the best cuisine in the world which is said to be the French one, I have an idea for you. How about cooking and baking those delicious and easy to make French meals including  obviously the even…

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Top 20 weird and a bit disgusting foods to eat in France

Top 20 weird and a bit disgusting foods to eat in France

The 20 Top Weird, Unusual, a bit disgusting foods you can find in France!

Everyone knows that France represents great quality cuisine. There are many famous chefs creating an amazing food starting for the specialists in bakery, by chefs who prepare main dishes and there is always an impressive dessert to come to which you cannot say no. But this is not all, there is cheese and wine which you can…

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Market day in France can be the main event of the week or month. Like a street party, if the weather is favourable everyone is out and about. 

For the small community like La Croisille-sur-Briance in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region  (NW France) the market day is only once a month,  on 18th. The stalls are set up along the main street and surrounding parking lots. I head out with my camera and shopping bag to find out what does an authentic France market has to offer. 

  Book shop in La Croisille-sur-Briance

First of all, this small rural community have a great advantage for book lovers so of course I first have to drop by from there. Thankfully, it’s right on the way as the shop is only open on Saturday and the market day until noon.  This second-hand book store is run as a charity and is located at the main square of the village. Created and managed mostly by British ladies who have chosen this area for their off sea retirement it has books in English as well as in France. 

    There are long rows of books. Thousands of them, including all the ‘big names’ and popular titles like Stephen King but also young adult authors. I find The Hunger Games and Gone Girl to mention a few.  Most noteworthy is that despite being called a shop the prices are as low as they possibly can be. One euro gets you any three books you want. 

  Farmers market in French

Finally, I drag myself away from the books and continue to the market that is just a few steps away. 

The food stalls include an astonishing range of cheese, sausages, baked goodies and sweets. Soft nougats, rows and rows of smoked sausages covered with a white layer and hang from the string. A few booths that sell CDs and DVDs have sound systems and they play a piece of upbeat French music. Street food stalls spread a savoury fragrance reminding me that I only had a light breakfast.

Produces seem to be mostly from the greenhouse (and/or Spain). However, there are plenty of artichokes, asparagus but also some onions, carrots and other spring vegetables. 

With a beautiful spring day seems like the whole village and people from surrounding areas have taken an excuse to get out of the home. Consequently, the ambience is a mixture of busy-businessy and slow-indulgent shopping. People from the village and surrounding have come to this early Thursday to stock up on their monthly special treats. 

  This year the April of 18th has lovely weather. The day is sunny and the temperature is at the twenties. Gardening season is at its peak so many people are here looking for seedlings. 

      Street food on French market day

The selection of French food and sweets offered if the main star of course. Quite a few different locations have stalls with astonishing cheese selection. Another, repeated appearance is sausages. 

Food vendors can rely on the smell and colour to bring in the customers. Two large wok pans are filled with paellas and third (to my surprise and delight) with sauerkraut and sausage. Apparently when it comes to street food, French are confident enough to remember their neighbours Spain and Germany. 

  Food stalls at the market

Not surprisingly the most popular food truck is the one selling cheese. We are in France after all. However, it’s really hard for an outsider like myself to tell why one stall has a long line while the other one only a few steps away is empty.

  No pre-packed ham offered here. Thick slices are skillfully cut and packed right in front of the customer. 

  Backing and loaves of bread are attractively set and tempt with their looks and fragrance. What captures my eye at the baker’s stall are a fluffy white ‘clouds’. These meringues are about the size of my head. Light and fluffy they call out to people passing by “take me home, you know you want to”. 

  The strawberry season is about to start.  If you are looking for an easy and perfect French dessert it’s hard to go wrong with meringue pieces served with strawberries and whipped cream. 

  As in almost any bazaar around the world,  also the market day in France can’t get along without things made in China. There are piles and racks bending down under colourful garments and boxes of socks and underclothes. They must get some business or they would not be here, right? Though seems like the food sections are a lot busier. 

Market day in Franch also seems to be a family day. People are out with their kids and even pets. We left our pack of seven home but there are other dogs and this lovely fellow comes to say hello 

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When travelling in rural France, make sure to check when is the local market day

A morning at the local bazaar is the perfect way to learn about French food and mentality. Apparently, the sellers follow the market days in this area of rural France from one location to another. A little bit like a travelling circus. They arrive early in the morning, set up their stalls and pack up at noon to move on to the next location. 

Have you travelled to France of been there in the past? Let me know what is your favourite part of French and local cuisine? 

  Market day in rural France Market day in France can be the main event of the week or month. Like a street party, if the weather is favourable everyone is out and about. 

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Exploring Paris day two part three.

After the catacombs we were starving so headed out for lunch. We found this pub/restaurant called Lakanal and asked for a english menu. They brought us that huge board haha.

I opted for french cusine and had the duck confit with potato pancakes. It tasted really good! Service was good here and they offered free bread and tap water when I said i didn’t want a drink. Highly recommend.

After lunch we took the RER b train to Notre Dame. I have already been here but it was a gorgeous weather day.

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Fruits de mer Part 4: Plateau de fruits de mer wine pairing with Preston Mohr

For our final instalment of the Fruits de mer series, we've saved the Plateau de fruits de mer, or seafood platter, as the grande finale! The plateau is named so because of it's elaborate, towering presentation of fresh seafood. This luxurious dish is most commonly found being shared amongst couples and friends at Parisian restaurants dedicated to fresh seafood. However, when staying in your own apartment in Paris, you have the luxury of ordering a plateau to-go from one of Paris' many poissoneries, or fish markets. Paired together with the right wine, a plateau makes for a perfect evening in!

Plateaux come in various sizes and offer different assortments of seafood. Typically, the poissoneries have a few different plateaux that they have pre-selected, but you can certainly feel free to be creative and compose your own! In the example of the platter pictured above, it is composed of huitres (oysters), langoustines (Norwegian lobsters), bulots (whelks), crevettes roses (large, pink shrimp), and crevettes grises (small, whole shrimp). With some help from your local poissonier, this could certainly be elaborated with homard (lobster), tourteau (Crab), and caviar. For your dégustation in your apartment, be sure to remember the traditional accompaniments: Vinaigre aux échalottes, a white wine vinegairette made with shallots for the oysters, and fresh mayonnaise for the bulots and the crevettes grises. Now here's Preston with which wines to pair with your plateau!

A beautiful plateau de fruits de mer is all about simplicity and sharing with family and friends. The coolness of the seafood combined with the wonderfully fresh smell of the sea call out for a crisp white wine to be shared by all.

The tried and true pairing that comes to mind would be an icy-cold bottle of Muscadet. This white wine is made in the sandy soil at the western limits of the Loire Valley region, before the river Loire spills into the Atlantic Ocean. Muscadet’s proximity to the sea and many oyster beds has made it for years a simple choice to accompany the huge plateaux of seafood that one can find on the coasts. The wines of Muscadet are made from the grape variety called Melon de Bourgogne. This classic pairing offers you nice fruity, inexpensive and easy to drink white wine to wash down your seafood and loads of rye bread slathered in salted butter. There’s something almost religious about this experience as it’s so quintessentially French!

If you prefer your wines less fruity, but more mineral (stony, flinty) and a bit more complex, than opt for a 1e cru Chablis. These wines come from some of the better plots in this famous white-wine growing region situated at the northern extremity of Burgundy. The 1e cru wines will have more concentration and depth and gain in lovely smokiness and richness after a few year’s of bottle ageing than the wines labeled as simply Chablis. Made entirely of the Chardonnay grape, Chablis is very rarely overly oaked and they are the definition of freshness, crisp acidity and an posses an almost sea-like character. The French believe this flavor comes from the fact that the soil in Chablis is composed of fossilized crustaceous shells dating from millions of years ago when this part of France was covered with water. Most cellars will have at least two or three 1e crus to choose from and they cost around 15 Euros a bottle and are well worth your money.

Enjoy! --Preston Mohr

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Ratatouille from Montagné Restaurant.