Hi folks,
We are in France now.
This is the land of minuscule. We have just completed our seven-day canal boat trip. All aboard survived. It was fun. We cooked our own evening meals and made up the most delicious baguette rolls for lunch with rillette or pate , tomato, cheese. Bread, cheese and tomato sounds pretty ordinaire, but the bread and the butter is so extraordinarily good, that it is a feast. My mission is to try every cheese in France. There are 380.
The countryside is exquisite. There is normally a path beside the canal. We have a botanist traveling with us. She picked a bouquet of wild flowers for our dinner table, made up of red and white clover, ragweed and fleabane. She pointed out hazelnut trees just in bud and huge walnut trees with young fruit, which could be pickled immediately. However, the winner was cherries. There were cherry trees in EVERY backyard absolutely loaded with fruit in all stages of maturity. We were able to forage for some on the canal bank. We tasted white ones and maraschino but best of all were the black cherries. We were able to use the boat hook to reach the higher branches so we had cherries for supper that night. Sounds just like the "famous five"
We are off to Dijon by train. Yes Dijon mustard. We will have to sample, naturellement.
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