food back here in Couze

Well, P had told me about buying some rillettes de canard at the Intermarche (the supermarket in Lalinde), and how great they were. Today I went to the Thursday market in Lalinde and bought some raie (skate), butter, brie (both au lait cru, raw milk), tomates a l'ancienne (what the old farmer in Bourbon county calls "heirloom tomatoes", emphasis on the 'h'), some very new potatoes, things like that. Also a jar of rillettes de canard. I can make this stuff. It's what is left over on the duck after you cut off the breasts and make confit de canard out of the legs; I think what you need to do at this point is to cook the carcass (salted and peppered) somehow in duck fat, and then scrape off all the meat. And you have rillettes. At least that's what I plan to try. It's all in keeping with the philosophy of not wasting ANY thing.

Lillie