I get up late.
My trip leisure mode should be kicking in. In the darkish of our shuttered cottage,
My Fitbit tells me it’s already 9:30.
Today is market day within the subsequent city over, and we’re hoping to purchase some recent fish for our night meal earlier than it closes. I slowly rise up and open the window shutters and wood door to the blue sky and solar, I anticipate once I’m staying right here in Le Brusc, a small city that sits on the Mediterranean in southern France. After our morning cup of espresso and a beneficiant slice of baguette unfold with butter and Nutella, we examine with our daughter and husband, who’re staying within the subsequent cottage over with their 14-month-old daughter. She’s nonetheless napping, however as quickly as she wakes u,p we’ll be able to go.
I make my grocery listing from a fish recipe I discovered in our hosts’ cookbook. It gathers recipes from farming girls of this space primarily based on the native meals and customs. I take alongside our reusable grocery bag, we pile within the automobile, and are off to discover a parking place not too removed from the market. As we arrive, we will instantly inform that cubicles are closing down. With the presence of the Tramontane, one of many two winds that generally hug this shoreline, it’s attainable that the market distributors determined to shut early.
Fortunately, the fishmongers are nonetheless open and so they nonetheless have the fish I’m searching for. It’s a household operation with the grandma gathering the fish and weighing them and the grandson fileting them for us. The remainder of the market is now shut down so we’ll need to get the remaining elements on the native grocery store. But whereas we’re right here, we stroll alongside the water’s edge and take within the colourful boats, turquoise water, and blue sky, even with the wind.
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On our manner again dwelling, we cease at Swan House (Swan House), an outside museum/backyard the place native artists present their works, after which cease for a drink on the harbor. So far at the present time has been in full leisure mode.
Later, again on the cottage, Jim and Heidi reduce greens and I put collectively the layers of the fish dish, boiled some potatoes , and threw collectively a inexperienced salad.
With the orange flan that I made earlier, a bottle of native rosé, and slices of recent baguette, we take pleasure in a scrumptious supper collectively.
This is what reminiscences are made from! And right here’s the recipe if you wish to make the dish as effectively.
2 lemons
Salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
3 cloves of minced garlic
¼ c. minced parsley
2 T. olive oil
6 filets of hake or white fish
1 onion, thinly sliced
2 zucchinis, thinly sliced
3 tomatoes, thinly sliced
1 c. heavy cream
Turn the oven on low. Cut one lemon into wedges to serve on the desk for squeezing on the dish. Juice the opposite lemon.
Rinse and dry the fish then dip it within the lemon juice. Dip the zucchini within the lemon juice as effectively. Fry the onion within the olive oil till brown then take away to a big baking dish.
Keep within the oven whilst you sauté the zucchini slices till they begin to brown. Then take away and layer on prime of the onions within the baking dish.
Keep within the oven whilst you fry the fish filets till tender, then take away and layer on prime of the zucchini within the baking dish. Keep within the oven whilst you fry the tomato slices.
Remove them and scatter them across the edges of the dish. Sprinkle the garlic and the parsley on prime.
Add the bay leaf. Put again within the oven whilst you warmth the cream in the identical frying pan. Pour over the elements within the dish and serve instantly. Sprinkle as wanted with salt and pepper.
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