And then there's the stuf that's really not good. Too much is fried. Fish and chips usually is breaded, fried fish, fried potatoes, and green peas. It's good, and I guess you need a lot of starch to get through an English winter, but...
Lillie
Sunday, July 19, 2009
observations sunday 19th
Why is English food so uniformly lousy? They seem to admire French food enormously, and try to emulate it, which I don't think is all that hard, but it falls seriously flat here. I decided I was going to have something that wasn't fried yesterday evening, and went to a place that was a pub with "serious" food. Service was good, the place was very nice, the food was expensive (it always is), and I ordered some grilled fish served with pureed celeriac (celery root) and roasted radishes and beans. The beans were good, French longish green beans, cooked perfectly. Roasted radishes? Huh? The pureed celeriac was okay but uninspired. The fish was a piece of fish grilled and plopped on top of the rest, which were arranged nicely. It could have used some seasoning. It was cooked well, but needed salt, pepper, lemon, anything... and this was $20+. The glass of red was okay but it was 6 pounds, e.g., another $10.
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Mon Cher Lillie,
ReplyDeleteI am Caroline Bordelon, a next door neighbor of your cousine Melissa Ihrig. She gave us the link to your blog, which is very interesting and entertaining, since she knows that we enjoy France, are of French descent, and have traveled in the area of your home in France. We have visited Beynac, Domme, Sarlat, Ste. Emilion on trips and stayed in Beynac both times. We also enjoy Rocamadour and that area.
Your home in Couze sounds great. It is something we have thought about doing, but never got serious about. After reading "A Year in Provence" we decided it was better to just rent.
We have friends in Fayence, near Nice, who lived in our old subdivision here for 30 years and upon retirement, moved to Fayence.
Melissa and Bruce told us about your daughter's wonderful wedding. They had a great time.
Enough for now. We just wanted you to know how much we enjoyed your postings and will continue to be "voyeurs" if that's OK.
Au revoir
Caroline Bordelon
carolyngbordelon@yahoo.com
Glad to hear you're enjoying it. THanks, Lillie
ReplyDeleteOK. I did the Followers thing, so I hope I'm more successful leaving a comment.
ReplyDeleteLove the photo of you & Martin.
Hope St. Plumber came to your cottage and fixed all leaky things. And then sent his cousin to fix the wallboard, etc.
Now I'm going to try to Post Comment.
Hopefully, Gretchen
I finally succeeded! though not without difficulty. although I'd become a Follower and had logged in using my Google account, it wouldn't let me choose Google from the Comment As dropdown. So I tried Name/URL. That appears to have worked. Life is good. I may have a glass of wine *long* before happy hour.
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Gretchen, fundamentally I don't have a clue how this works. I suspect that I should be able to track "hits", however, my only clue that people are actually reading my blog is when I either get comments or emails fussing at me...I understand totally how you don't have a clue whether what you're doing is working.
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