Market day

It’s less than two weeks now until Christmas, and there’s a few jobs that we’d like to get finished before then, but generally we are going to take some time to relax and enjoy the Christmas period.

This morning we headed into Bar-Sur-Seine to do some early Christmas food shopping. It was market day, and despite the drizzle we ventured out. The cheese stall was particularly inviting and I just couldn’t resist buying some Brie aux truffes, it really is quite a decadent cheese, very luxurious, so will be great for a little treat over the coming weeks. The fish stall was very nicely stocked, everything looking so fresh and well presented, all laid out on stacks of crushed ice, which invites you to buy it. Fish is obviously a bit of a talking point at the moment, so it will be interesting to see what the choice and price is like in the new year. I bought a couple of pieces of salmon, which are always very flavoursome, so I will cook them quite simply, maybe with a hollandaise sauce. They were also selling some gorgeous looking smoked salmon, it was a rich burnt orange colour with the sweet aromas of being freshly smoked - I will get some when we go back just before Christmas.

Lastly was the fruit and vegetable stall. Too early to buy this for Christmas, but I did get a beautiful looking cauliflower to make some soup and some satsumas to just nibble on.

Hubby fitting in…..