Eating Winter Seafood Meals in
the Sables d’Olonne (Vendée, France) with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
On
another cold weekend in Paris (France), my husband Laurent and I bundled up
toddler Florence and drove out to the Vendée region to visit Laurent’s
grandmother, who lived in the Sables d’Olonne on the Atlantic oceanfront.
When
we arrived, I walked to the indoor Arago Market
with Laurent’s grandmother to buy lunch which included:
-raw
oysters
-pre-cleaned
clams for steaming
-lamb
fillets for grilling
Then,
we took Florence for a walk down the Remblai.
It was pretty windy on the oceanfront.
Just a few streets inland, the temperature was warmer, because there was
no wind.
We
drank a Jurançon Doux as our cocktail.
This wine comes form Southwestern France and was pretty reasonably
priced at the time.
Then,
we ate raw oysters - one dozen
each. I like to eat mine with fresh
lemon juice.
Our
main dish was grilled lamb fillets with green beans and small, French lima beans
from Puy. We drank a Bordeaux from the Médoc
with the grilled lamb. A selection of
cheese followed this course and a nice dessert.
Laurent
ate a chocolate éclair while ate a Polonaise, a fat cake soaked in rum that is
supposed to resemble an old Polish lady.
We
returned to Paris well fed. Florence’s
time by the Atlantic Ocean gave her pink cheeks and a happy smile.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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