Yay it's lunchtime :dance:
Just had the most delicious fresh baguette with Normandy butter, spreadable boursin cheese, and a chunk of last night's roast lamb from a local farm. It reminded me how much I love French food! What is your favourite food & drink from your current and/or past local regions?
From Cornwall where I grew up my favourites would have to be Cornish pasties (obviously!), and Cornish clotted cream, and hevva cake, Cornish fairings (biscuits) and clotted cream shortbread, clotted cream fudge (see the theme?!), Cornish brie. Oh, and Helford Creek apple juice!
In Italy I lived in a region called Emilia Romagna and its two local specialities are two of my all-time favourite foods - Parmesan cheese and Parma ham (prosciutto). I also loved gnocci and polenta, erbazzone, focaccia bread, mortadella sausage, and most Italian cheeses.
My favourite foods in the Algarve were mostly regional dishes made with freshly-caught seafood and local meats (especially salted pork). LOVE grilled sardines (must have been caught that day though, and must be grilled whole!), caldo verde which is a cabbage soup, bacalhau (a dish with potatoes and shredded cod), Portuguese chorizo. Oh and the desserts, the Portuguese do various forms of custard tarts, rice pudding and mousses, 3 of my all-time favourite dessert types.
And then here in Normandy my favourites are baguettes (can't beat a fresh baguette at lunchtime!), croissants, local veal, coquilles saint jaques (scallops!), Pont l'eveque and Neufchatel cheese, galettes (savoury pancakes eaten at lunchtime, though they are strictly from Brittany but are very popular here) - ooh and the salted lamb from the bay of Saint Michel.
I am actually drooling on my keyboard :bounce:
Just had the most delicious fresh baguette with Normandy butter, spreadable boursin cheese, and a chunk of last night's roast lamb from a local farm. It reminded me how much I love French food! What is your favourite food & drink from your current and/or past local regions?
From Cornwall where I grew up my favourites would have to be Cornish pasties (obviously!), and Cornish clotted cream, and hevva cake, Cornish fairings (biscuits) and clotted cream shortbread, clotted cream fudge (see the theme?!), Cornish brie. Oh, and Helford Creek apple juice!
In Italy I lived in a region called Emilia Romagna and its two local specialities are two of my all-time favourite foods - Parmesan cheese and Parma ham (prosciutto). I also loved gnocci and polenta, erbazzone, focaccia bread, mortadella sausage, and most Italian cheeses.
My favourite foods in the Algarve were mostly regional dishes made with freshly-caught seafood and local meats (especially salted pork). LOVE grilled sardines (must have been caught that day though, and must be grilled whole!), caldo verde which is a cabbage soup, bacalhau (a dish with potatoes and shredded cod), Portuguese chorizo. Oh and the desserts, the Portuguese do various forms of custard tarts, rice pudding and mousses, 3 of my all-time favourite dessert types.
And then here in Normandy my favourites are baguettes (can't beat a fresh baguette at lunchtime!), croissants, local veal, coquilles saint jaques (scallops!), Pont l'eveque and Neufchatel cheese, galettes (savoury pancakes eaten at lunchtime, though they are strictly from Brittany but are very popular here) - ooh and the salted lamb from the bay of Saint Michel.
I am actually drooling on my keyboard :bounce: