Saturday, April 25, 2009

Food of Provence

The food here is wonderful.  Even eating light you could gain weight.  The “Menu” – which is a fixed price 3 course (typically) meal - is what we’ve been ordering because it’s usually cheaper than even a single course “à la carte”.  They basically give you a choice of three appetizers, three main courses and three desserts.  Here are some highlights of our food in Provence.

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The jar here has sardines mixed up as you would tuna.  These aren’t your fathers sardines in mustard sauce, these are fresh and lighter than tuna.

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Roast chicken with couscous.  Couscous is big around here.  There are a lot of North African influences (Tangine and curries).

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Some Rhone wines…

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Crêpes crêpes everywhere…

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This was a smoked chicken, parmesan and sweet corn salad.  Very light and good.  This was our lunch.

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Escargot and shrimp appetizer (my first time with snails and they weren’t bad – a bit chewy is my only thought).  This dish had a rich cream sauce – not heavy but I probably would have been fine with this appetizer alone for dinner.

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A simple beef in mushroom sauce dish of Provence. We see a lot of this sort of thing here (steak is big here).  The beef is good but to be frank we do it better back home.

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And of course some phenomenal desserts.  This was a chocolate torte.

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