We had a luncheon on the terrace...

The cat was asleep.  Dead fast, doing what he does best.

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It was a stunning spring day so we decided to have a luncheon on the terrace.  The blue cheese is pretty special,  A Fourme d' Ambert.  It dates back from the 8th century.  It is a full fat sheeps milk blue (50% fat), creamy and utterly delightful.  This is now my favourite blue cheese.

Along with our cheeses we had pear, date walnut salad.  A favourite of ours,  but this time we roasted the dates in the oven.  Remember Joey, all those years ago when you did that?  Those chewy yummy dates stayed in our heads.  So, paired with fresh pear, chewy toffee like roasted dates (thanks Joey!), roasted walnuts, amazing cheese.  Utterly yum.  

Toasty roasted chewy yummy with cheese.  Addictive. 

Spring is here in Signeville.  Our Cherry blossom is always the last to blossom in the village which makes it extra special. 

 

The cows are out!

They are so sweet, mooing and jumping at the bottom of our section.  It's always a spring delight to see our cows back.  

Luncheon on the deck

 If there's something we love to do from time to time on beautiful days is have a wee luncheon on the deck.  This one was with sourdough of course, 2 types this time.  A walnut date sourdough and standard.  I made a pear walnut and date salad and we had Delice de Mussy Chaource.  A cheese from a small fromagerie in Chaource, about 1hr 30 from here.  It's covered in chopped walnuts.  Cheese and walnuts are very good friends.  We also had a truffle affinois.  Both extremely delicious with a nice bottle of Gewurtztraminer.  

A very pleasant way to pass a spring afternoon.  But we need to buy that hammock!

It's BBQ season

 We've had the most amazing weather.  With amazing weather comes bbqs on our outside fire pit.  And we've discovered one of the yummiest things to bbq is confit duck.  It is so delicious with that hint of smoke.  It goes all gooey crunchy.  The fat on the duck melts off into the fire to give an even better smoke.  It's just yummy yummy scrumptious.  I served this Asian style with rice, satay sauce and star anise flavours.  Delicious.