Barbie

On the Saturday evening of the festival we decided we’d have a barbecue and invite a few local friends over to join us. Everyone staying with us joined in getting ready for the evening, setting up the tables and chairs in the garden, hanging up the lights and preparing the food and drinks area.

We’d already prepared some nibbles to have with drinks, some cheese gougéres and some spinach and feta parcels. We just needed to get them cooked. Pam had made some blinis, which we topped with cream cheese, a local smoked trout and some basil. The food and wine soon brought everyone together and our evening had begun.

For the barbecue we cooked marinated poitrine de porc, merguez and porc sausages, along with yellow pepper and halloumi skewers with a ras el hanout and honey spiced marinade. There was a variety of salads; watermelon and feta, a french styled lentil salad, new potatoes and green beans with a caper vinaigrette, coleslaw and a dried fruit bulgur wheat salad. It was all rather tasty. For dessert we did a chia coconut pot with chopped mango.

All the tables we had put out around the garden allowed for happy little gatherings of friends and friends to be.

It was a really wonderful evening.