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Saturday, September 8, 2018

Visiting Pouliguen (France): Sunbathing at Brittany's Family Beach with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Visiting Pouliguen (France):  Sunbathing on Brittany’s Family Beach with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget



Pouliguen is a family-oriented beach in Brittany, which means that there is no topless bathing like there is in the next town along the coast at La Baule.

We went to the crêperie called Au Jardin du Balata in Pouliguen.  Crêpes made with buckwheat flour and served with savory fillings are called galettes.

Laurent’s mother ate a traditional galette with ham and cheese.  I had a more modern take on the dish and ordered a galette with ratatouille and egg.

Ratatouille comes from the South of France, but the stewed eggplant, onions, zucchini, tomatoes, thyme, and bay leaf tasted delicious with the scrambled egg inside the Breton galette I ordered tasted great.

Typically, galettes contain savory items like eggs, ham, butter, mushrooms, onions, and so on.  A crêpe is made with white flour and sugar.  Crêpes are filled with sweet items like chocolate Nutella.

Cider is the preferred beverage that goes along with galettes and crêpes.  The sweet kind is called “doux” and the more astringent one is called “brut.”

I ate a dessert crêpe called a Negresco for dessert.  I daintily ate the Negresco filled with vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, and sliced almonds and was very happy with life.


By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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