One of the beauties of holidays is that you discover
new things and have experiences out of the ordinary. Our holiday experiences
are also based on building on what has happened on previous days. So devotees
of past blogs may recall that we drove up into the valley behind Mount Ventoux
and discovered a delightful auberge for a snack lunch. We had noticed that the
auberge had a shady terrace where people were eating proper meals. So today we
drove there for lunch.
Sure enough we were seated with about twenty-five
other diners on the terrace shaded by an awning and a tree. Warning the downside
of the tree was that it kept depositing little buds in drinks and on people.
The meals were served from a kitchen window across the road and walked across
by two waitresses. Obviously the road was not busy, with even a dog sleeping in
it.
The auberge served rustic country food that was both
hearty and interesting. Marion had a mozzarella salad, the mozzarella melted in
the mouth with the accompanying salad dressed with a piquant pesto sauce. I had
a Corsican dish of stuffed pasta with a tomato and Parmesan sauce. It was one
of those sauces that cried out for you to soak up the remnants with bread,
which of course I did.
The main courses were simple but well cooked. Marion
had rabbit in rich gravy; fantastic sweet potato chips accompanied both our dishes.
This also made the perfect partner to the salmon that I ate. It was cooked in
foil on a bed of very thin courgettes with lemon and tomato on the top. With a
small glass of rose it was a great lunch.
It was appropriate that I ate fish for brainpower;
this is because each night we are playing Scrabble with Iain and Barbara.
Although it is a friendly game passions run strongly and the language sometimes
leaves something to be desired. All four of us stretch both the actual rules
and moral rules to the limits. Would you allow jove, while in play we did not
question it but afterwards we decided that it had broken the rules. It has
provided a really super evening and great amusement. Tomorrow it is the final
game and the reckoning. At the moment the ladies have won four out of five
games. Maybe we will even it up tomorrow!!!!
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