In June Boredville hosted their International Food Festival, around 50+ food stalls lining the City Centre High Street and Town Hall square. I found four French stands:
- Two Crepes Stands - not keen too sickly for me, brought back memories of New Year‘s Eve 2009. I was with Monsieur X in Les Menuires, and had to eat all of it, as the restaurant boss sat on our table talking to him and watched me eat every last crumb of it.
- A Bread stand - well there had to be one, but I wasn’t going to pay three times more for a baguette than I could in a supermarket. I know it would taste better but come on there is a recession on.
- Provencal Kitchen- serving chicken and garlic potatoes, cooked the southern French way, and served the English way in a plastic container with plastic knife and fork. It was gorgeous. could have had it every day of the festival, my taste buds said ’oui’ but my purse said ’non’ and it was back to cheese sandwiches and crisps.
Visiting France and living with a Frenchman gave my taste bubs a new lease of life, a change from hamburgers and chips. Apart my beloved chicken nuggets, my favourite food is fish - as long as the head is cut off, the sauces aren’t too spicy and it isn’t lobster. The one time I ate Lobster it tasted good but the humiliation of looked an idiot trying to eat it for the first time with a group of 10 Frenchies around me, made sure I would never try it again. I have always been a fishy girl (volia! Maybe that’s why I’m single), and the best fish dishes I’ve had have been cooked by Frenchies - La Phare Away in Cap Ferret, a small French restaurant in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and various dishes made by Monsieur X’s own hands.
But back to what I know best - Fast Food! I think Quick restaurants are from Belgium, but I class them as French probably because of the presentation. The burgers are actually upright and look like the photos on the menus, not like the pile of cold mush usually served at some Fast Food joints in England. I always used to nag Monsieur X to take me to one when I used to visit him, to me the best fast food in the world.
And my last point to why I enjoy French cooking - I have never ate it alone, expect for the Boredville Food Festival, wasn’t the same without friends especially my French ex one.
17 - Go to France to research different recipes (or eat in Quick). Write my own Anglo - French cookery book, 101 English recipes with a French twist: For Example poisson et frites avec sauce rouge, batonnets de poissons and nuggets de poulet avec differentes sauces….Sounds a lot better in French.
