Hummus by Hugh
Diary, excuse the gap. This holiday was a bit of a last-minute-wonder-surprise. So for the week that we knew we were going, we weren’t eating a lot. You know, it’s just after Christmas and…we’ve been eating plenty. Enough that it’s probably going we will probably notice it while skiing and snowboarding. So a week of eating mostly fresh veggies and the odd bit of toast was just fine. After all, when you go to France, you don’t want to arrive overfull. Bringing us to the subject of…
French food.
Sigh.
I have only started to appreciate French food in the last couple years. There is much of the cheese. The most fabulous cheese. Cheeses, if I stand corrected. There seems to be plenty to keep the meat-eaters happy. But little veggie me is more impressed by crepes. Yes, they are just pancakes, but they taste. better. in. France. Especially at the top of a mountain. Especially after skiing down against the wind until you can’t feel the tip of your nose from the cold. Especially filled with hot cherries and Grand Marnier. Especially then.
This trip was the first time that we stayed in a chalet rather than a hotel, as had always been under the impression that you had to book all the places in a chalet…like it would be perfect with a group of friends but pretty darn expensive when it’s just the two of us. Ha. We were wrong. (Thank you Nedley for putting us right.) So we stayed with eight other people we didn’t know…but the best part was that pretty much all of our meals were cooked for us by our chalet hosts. So kinda like a B&B that serves afternoon tea and a four-course dinner, all at the top of a mountain. A very lovely idea indeed.
One of our chalet hosts was particularly excellent in the kitchen, and it’s pretty safe to say he knows how to cook a great deal more than the average twenty-three year old guy. So diary, consider a whole week’s entries summed up by a little record of what we ate at our little chalet, courtesy of Hugh’s Kitchen:
Afternoon tea cakes: banana bread (with no nuts…yay), chocolate sponge, white chocolate and raspberry cake,
Starters: homemade hummus, salmon rolls, waldorf salad, potato & leek soup, broccoli & roquefort soup
Veggie dishes: savoury pancakes, lentil cakes, fajitas, cashew filled pastry, mediterranean vegetables
Meat dishes: duck l’orange, pork chops, salmon parcels, chicken fajitas, beef strogonoff
Desserts: Raspberry Eton mess, pears in red wine sauce, lemon mousse, chocolate pots, apple crumble
Plus one evening of Savoyard specialties: raclette, fondue and hot rocks with crepes suzette.
Recipes linked look as close as I can guess…just a way of bookmarking for a day when we are feeling nostalgic and want to cook something mountain-like!
xlovesx
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