C’est la vie…

You might remember we had a lovely holiday in western France just after Easter, staying on the beautiful sandy coast of the Vendee. Whilst there we ate some delicious food in restaurants, I made some pretty decent meals too, as we were self catering for some of the time. Everything tasted wonderful, so I came home full of enthusiasm to recreate some of the things we ate. There was a very slow-cooked lamb dish with a herby sauce I described to our lovely butcher at the top of the road. He struggled to work out which cut of lamb had been used but we settled on rump. These were vacuum sealed for me to cook them sous-vide, a process I haven’t employed before, but the slow-cooker provided a perfect water bath. Imagine my shock/horror when the packages expanded and threatened to burst during the 6 hours they were floating around! Did it work? Not really. Then there were the gallettes. I even had a tutorial (in French) about the perfect way to create them. Buckwheat flour was easy to find in a health food shop, but could I get the consistency right? Having tried several times and failing I decided that It’s better to enjoy the moment whilst on foreign land and look forward to the next time we can enjoy them when travel to these fabulous places 😉