Its Friday night.... Its Galette night...

Galette anyone?

In every true Breton family there is someone,  who is rather good at making galettes and on a Friday they are charged with making galettes for the whole family!..

However, we are not a true Breton family.. so I buy my galettes from a man in the village who spends every Friday afternoon mixing batter and flipping it over a hot plate to create lovely light galettes.

Bretons treat their galettes very seriously, so of course there are many fetes and festivals celebrating the galette. On the last weekend in July, Gourin hosts the annual wheat and buckwheat crêpe fesitval where over 150 galette makers are at the service of thousands of guests all hungry to sample the best galettes in the world!.. At this festival there is also a competition to make the biggest crêpe in the world... the record stands at 98cm!

A couple of months later, on the last Sunday in September, the Fete de la Galette takes over Pipriac, the birthplace of the Confrérie de la Galette.

During June the Rennes Tourist Information Centre organises a galette competition which is open to all the creperies in Rennes. With a judge liable to pop in at any time..this is an excellent time to sample a perfect galette.