All good things...

[j4]

... must come to an end. So I find myself unfortunately back in the windswept flatlands now after a lovely holiday which I may write about at greater length some day. (Summary: company, food, scenery and weather all excellent.)

Will probably never catch up with LiveJournal, so if anything interesting's happened that I ought to know about, please let me know by email (or comment here).

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes please! Ate lots of tuna while I was away. And anchovies. I have finally seen the light about anchovies.

mm, yes

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

Did you have a slice of the anchovy pissaladi$egrave;re at the market...?

Re: mm, yes

[j4.livejournal.com]

I didn't, no! (Plenty of anchovies in the salades niçoises that I had, though.) All the pissaladière I saw (in markets, shops, cafes, whatever) looked a bit limp and not as tempting as other local delicacies. Next time, maybe.

In the meantime, it's off to read my Elizabeth David books...

Re: mm, yes

[nja.livejournal.com]

We seemed to be constantly eating stuff containing blette, which I think is a kind of Swiss chard and (according to Nicoise sister-in-law) a local delicacy which can be included in both sweet and savoury dishes. It tasted of nothing. Every time we went into a restaurant one of the adventurous English gourmets would be prodding his food saying "what's this green stuff then?" and Christel would roll her eyes and say "blette, of course".