Thinking about lunch. This time of year, it is always soup and at the moment I have a bit of a parsnip glut so more often than not it is parsnip soup, which Joe tolerates as long as there is a LOT of bread !!..
Then, it is either lentils, something involving chick peas and it always comes out of a pot and for pudding, tarte tartan.
What we eat is to a large extent supermarket driven… and I am so pleased that France still follows the seasons. It is impossible to find a strawberry, nor a cucumber until June and I would find the concept of eating water melon rather odd in January. At the moment I want BIG foods, cauliflower cheese, cabbage and lardons and bœuf bourguignon. Conversely it would seem strange to the French to eat raclette (basically a cheese fondue) at any time apart from in the depths of winter.
Our diet changes with the seasons, this has to be a good thing. When supermarkets stock the same foods all year round it must be so easy to eat the same meals all year round.
The French may have got many things wrong (the economy !!… ooppps that was a bit controversial !!)… but their supermarkets have to be applauded for only stocking seasonal fruit and vegetables.
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