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Hahahaha, this is so '70s or '80s... Loved it back then, haven't had it since then....
If there's one place where the classics never go out of style, it's France.
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and for good reason, despite all the modernistic frimfram those are dishes that stay great even when they are temporarily out of fashion. I predict a revival of classic French cuisine.
Recently I made potato gratin, nobody in the household had ever eaten it and everyone was smitten.
Recently I made potato gratin, nobody in the household had ever eaten it and everyone was smitten.
In the southwest of France where I'm living currently, the traditional cuisine is classic peasant food on steroids. Cheap to make, even today. Lots of beans, sausage, duck, and slow-cooked economical cuts of meat. I assume it's pretty similar where Harbeer is out on the coast, but I haven't had the chance to visit much out that way. Every time I eat something of that ilk it reminds me of when I was a farmer and would walk home for lunch, ransack my kitchen for every edible morsel, then go back to work for 4-6hrs and do it again for dinner. Nothing makes you really appreciate the old style of meals like 12hr days on a farm. That said, it can be pretty heavy eating when you aren't doing that kind of physical effort to prepare for it.
I just visited a friend this weekend while I was up in the Aveyron seeing my in-laws and for a very classic and delicious lunch they made potato dauphinoise, slow roasted chicken, and haricot beans cooked in the rendered chicken fat. This was proceeded, of course, by pates, cornichons, and homemade bread, which was itself proceeded by some apero. A nice dessert rounded out the meal.
