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Mis en Bouch is like a littly tiny appetiser. We are making the party round with a group of our friends, all olvie farmers, and it was our turn to host.
I bought these cute little "spoons" as they say in French. You use these spoons for preparing Mis en Bouches. Now normally at a restaurant you will get one spoon, it is called an amusement for the mouth. Not really a full appatizer just a small amusement.
I knew at the store when I saw them that they would be perfect for my husband, for his "style." He wasn't to happy when I brought them home because we really don't have money laying around but I knew in my heart once he had them int he house he would'nt ask me to return them and I was right! ha-ha, do I know the man or what? Pictures are of our friends and the mis en bouches and dinner.
He prepared these mis en bouches
Dinner was very simple, in the wine glasses on the plates, gazpacho soup with a dollop of unsweetened whipped cream, pecan coated chicken breasts, a pastry cup with finely really finly cut slivers of carrots and zuchini and our personal serving of cream sauce in the little cups. Desert was homemade bread pussing topped with our own cherry sauce a dollop of vanilla icecream ont he side and a home made chocolte truffle, I didn't take a picture fo that. By our standards this was not a gourmet meal but simply a nice little simple dinner party.
On the dinner table picture Andre is holding up a bottle of "Provence Rosé" wine produced in Texas. A frined of ours visited and borugh us that to try. The whole table was most eager to try it, they were all excited and even Yvonne. Yvonne never drinks not ever on doctors orders becaue of medication she is on. She said, "Pour me some I want to try it" I couldn't beleive it when Yvonne wanted some. Sadly the Texas made "Provence Rosé" wine was not a hit. Everyone was very very polite, very polite, however nobody asked for any more. And the wine showing in the bottle in the picture was still there at the end of the meal. They all said ti was to sweet and the best thing we could do was to chill it really really cold and serve it for an aperitife. Seceretly I think they were happy it was not near as good as the worst real Provence Rosé produced here. They were very excited and open to try it I don't think they approached it with any bias at all, quite the contrary. So it seems like Texas has a ways to go in producing Provence Rosé wine.
One item of note is the picture of Lucien. He is one of our best freinds. Look at the guy he is over 70 years old. Their farm is a bit in the countryside and they live in town. Each morning they get up at 5am and she works with him every day at the farm. She stand on her feet all day picking out the bad fruit from the good fruit. His main crop is apricots, he grows several American varitals of Apricots, cherries, apples, Olvies and some grapes.
Jean Arnaud is a very rich farmer. After WWI he got in a program offered by the Americans and was sent to a farm in Ohio as a young man. He speaks pretty good English and absolutly loves America and Americans. All our French family and freinds and stangers have a high opinion of Americans. In 1956 he was back in France after having studied farming int he Unted Staes and he started farming. Ther was a big freeze in 1956 and many fo the farmers were destiture and lsot their whole income for a year and gave up and took factory jobs which were booming. Jean Arnaud only ever wanted to be a farmer so he picked up acers and acers of land dirt cheap. He survived the big freeze and afterwards capitalized on it (if that isn't the Americna way I don't know what is). Today he is a very rich farmer and you should see his house it's unbelievable. Jean's wife was a 3 & 4th grade teacher in Pelissanne a little village next to our city. She taught every kid int hat village and when the discussion is about so and so she remembers the kids and how they were in her class. She knows all the good fmailies and allt he bad families in the village. Paulette talks about when they were first married the bathroom for the apartment building was four floors down and how during the big freeze it was so cold that she would wash her clothes and then Jean would have to take the wet clothes over to his aunts to rinse them My hsuband says in the old days the lower priced washing machines (which you ran by hand) didn't have a rinse basin in them.
Then there is Andre. Andre is rather like us. Made his money earlier and is moving onto a second life in olive farming. Andre owned a very large car dealership in the big city of Aix en Provence. Andre ahs 2 partners a dentist and an attorney and they bough 50 acres of virgin land and converted it to an olive farm. Andre is trying to talk us into farming organic and we are litening. We are still so new to what we are doing that we are not ready to pull the trigger yet but we are listening. Andre goes to a mill that produces only Fruite Noir Olive Oil which is a kind of musty tasting oil. He finally admitted to me recently that only the old people like Fruite Noir and allt he young ones like fruite vert oil, whihc is what we produce. I am sure it took a lot for him to say that. Andre has 4,000 olive trees and we only have like 1,400 so he is a bit bigger than us but he has to split 3 ways because he has partners. He is a really nice guy, divorced with adult children liekt he rest of us in our little olive farming group.
Then the handsome guy you see wearing a Finlandia Vodka T-ahirt is my hubby. We ahve every kinf of liquor T-shirt made as he got them form the liquor distributors when he owned his restaurants.
it was a nice little party and everyone had a good time. Next up will be Andre but chances are we won't go to his house he takes us out to a restaurant for his turn, which is fine.
Pictures are-
Checkerd shirt is Lucien followed by his wife
The Jean Arnau seated at the patio table followed by his wife
Andre with the patterend shirt
My hsuband
I bought these cute little "spoons" as they say in French. You use these spoons for preparing Mis en Bouches. Now normally at a restaurant you will get one spoon, it is called an amusement for the mouth. Not really a full appatizer just a small amusement.
I knew at the store when I saw them that they would be perfect for my husband, for his "style." He wasn't to happy when I brought them home because we really don't have money laying around but I knew in my heart once he had them int he house he would'nt ask me to return them and I was right! ha-ha, do I know the man or what? Pictures are of our friends and the mis en bouches and dinner.
He prepared these mis en bouches
- Fresh muscles pulled out of their shells and prepared with breadcrumbs and garlic butter
- Fresh oyseters on a bed of cooked spinach with finley chopped onions and a white cheese sauce
- cooked salmon with the white cheese sauce and fresh basil
- Sushi
- fois gras with a cherry sauce (from our cherries) on toast
- shrimp in a little cup with homemade coctail sauce
Dinner was very simple, in the wine glasses on the plates, gazpacho soup with a dollop of unsweetened whipped cream, pecan coated chicken breasts, a pastry cup with finely really finly cut slivers of carrots and zuchini and our personal serving of cream sauce in the little cups. Desert was homemade bread pussing topped with our own cherry sauce a dollop of vanilla icecream ont he side and a home made chocolte truffle, I didn't take a picture fo that. By our standards this was not a gourmet meal but simply a nice little simple dinner party.
On the dinner table picture Andre is holding up a bottle of "Provence Rosé" wine produced in Texas. A frined of ours visited and borugh us that to try. The whole table was most eager to try it, they were all excited and even Yvonne. Yvonne never drinks not ever on doctors orders becaue of medication she is on. She said, "Pour me some I want to try it" I couldn't beleive it when Yvonne wanted some. Sadly the Texas made "Provence Rosé" wine was not a hit. Everyone was very very polite, very polite, however nobody asked for any more. And the wine showing in the bottle in the picture was still there at the end of the meal. They all said ti was to sweet and the best thing we could do was to chill it really really cold and serve it for an aperitife. Seceretly I think they were happy it was not near as good as the worst real Provence Rosé produced here. They were very excited and open to try it I don't think they approached it with any bias at all, quite the contrary. So it seems like Texas has a ways to go in producing Provence Rosé wine.
One item of note is the picture of Lucien. He is one of our best freinds. Look at the guy he is over 70 years old. Their farm is a bit in the countryside and they live in town. Each morning they get up at 5am and she works with him every day at the farm. She stand on her feet all day picking out the bad fruit from the good fruit. His main crop is apricots, he grows several American varitals of Apricots, cherries, apples, Olvies and some grapes.
Jean Arnaud is a very rich farmer. After WWI he got in a program offered by the Americans and was sent to a farm in Ohio as a young man. He speaks pretty good English and absolutly loves America and Americans. All our French family and freinds and stangers have a high opinion of Americans. In 1956 he was back in France after having studied farming int he Unted Staes and he started farming. Ther was a big freeze in 1956 and many fo the farmers were destiture and lsot their whole income for a year and gave up and took factory jobs which were booming. Jean Arnaud only ever wanted to be a farmer so he picked up acers and acers of land dirt cheap. He survived the big freeze and afterwards capitalized on it (if that isn't the Americna way I don't know what is). Today he is a very rich farmer and you should see his house it's unbelievable. Jean's wife was a 3 & 4th grade teacher in Pelissanne a little village next to our city. She taught every kid int hat village and when the discussion is about so and so she remembers the kids and how they were in her class. She knows all the good fmailies and allt he bad families in the village. Paulette talks about when they were first married the bathroom for the apartment building was four floors down and how during the big freeze it was so cold that she would wash her clothes and then Jean would have to take the wet clothes over to his aunts to rinse them My hsuband says in the old days the lower priced washing machines (which you ran by hand) didn't have a rinse basin in them.
Then there is Andre. Andre is rather like us. Made his money earlier and is moving onto a second life in olive farming. Andre owned a very large car dealership in the big city of Aix en Provence. Andre ahs 2 partners a dentist and an attorney and they bough 50 acres of virgin land and converted it to an olive farm. Andre is trying to talk us into farming organic and we are litening. We are still so new to what we are doing that we are not ready to pull the trigger yet but we are listening. Andre goes to a mill that produces only Fruite Noir Olive Oil which is a kind of musty tasting oil. He finally admitted to me recently that only the old people like Fruite Noir and allt he young ones like fruite vert oil, whihc is what we produce. I am sure it took a lot for him to say that. Andre has 4,000 olive trees and we only have like 1,400 so he is a bit bigger than us but he has to split 3 ways because he has partners. He is a really nice guy, divorced with adult children liekt he rest of us in our little olive farming group.
Then the handsome guy you see wearing a Finlandia Vodka T-ahirt is my hubby. We ahve every kinf of liquor T-shirt made as he got them form the liquor distributors when he owned his restaurants.
it was a nice little party and everyone had a good time. Next up will be Andre but chances are we won't go to his house he takes us out to a restaurant for his turn, which is fine.
Pictures are-
Checkerd shirt is Lucien followed by his wife
The Jean Arnau seated at the patio table followed by his wife
Andre with the patterend shirt
My hsuband
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