April 29, 2017. French market day

LOCATION:  Housesitting near Poullaneon, Brittany, France

WEATHER:  Sunny and cool.  Highs in 50s

 

The homeowners left and we are now on our own.  We sure hope that all 21 chickens survive these next two weeks, under our care!  We collected 13 eggs plus found 2 broken ones.  We keep the misshapen ones for ourselves and store the rest to sell.

We drove about 15 miles to the closest medium-sized town for its Saturday market.  It was a nice market - vegetable, fruit, cheese, meat, cooked food, seafood, and clothes stalls.  And, surprisingly....mattresses.  This stall was selling rustic bread....

And this one, good goat cheese...

This one, al kinds of cheese...

George bought some bacon here..

We bought some paella from one of the stands.  They cook it in huge paella pans.  It was doing a great business.  We wanted to buy some of the great looking seafood, but we weren't going directly home, and were worried about spoilage.  Apparently, the western coast where we will go one day, has great mussels and oysters.  After shopping, we went to a cafe on the square for a drink and to people-watch.    

Our neighbor left us some baby lettuce which we planted.  A new set of campers arrived.  While George was opening the gate for them, the chickens got out!  He had to corral them back in.   Our homeowner is an artist and has a nice artist studio on the property.   These campers are interested in some paintings drawn by our homeowner.  We are trying to put them into contact so that the camper might buy one or two.

 

DINNER:  In an unsupervised moment at the supermarket, George bought some venison.  It had a picture of morel mushrooms on it, so he thought it would contain them.  It did not.  I made a risotto with onions, leeks, mushrooms and garlic, and served it with the sauteed venison.  Pretty good.