Christmas Eve in France is almost more important than Christmas Day. The evening, usually a big family affair comprises of a light seafood meal with Crab, Lobster, Oysters etc after which you attend Mass, upon return you have 13 deserts, we are not talking Pavlova, but tastings for example a date, figue, etc.and so leaving space to eat again on Christmas day where it is tradition to eat either Turkey, chicken, Goose or Duck.
This is what we shall be eating Thursday night.....
On Christmas day we shall be eating Salmon en croute, we ordered a Fillet of Scotish Salmon from our Fishmonger who is in our village for the market on Tuesday.It looks delicious!
It is always interesting when living in a different country to observe the differences in peoples priorities. It is commonly known that the French love their food. And they are quite happy to pay good money to eat well. Whilst buying our Salmon the customer before us bought two live Lobsters. They were 180€ a Kilo and weighed 1.45 kilos, the fishmonger even managed to keep a straight face when is asked for the €262 Euros! The customer did not flinch! whilst I stood with my mouth open in disbeleif!increable!
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