say cheese!

My pal Michael wins the friend award for not only visiting me once this year, but twice! He got here on Thursday, and after marathon laundry (he's already been traveling for several weeks) we got down to business: food! Michael is even more obsessed with French fromage than I am, and our afternoon of visiting the Château fort de Rambures ended with a little jog into Normandy (it's not far) to a specialty cheese shop. Kern Fromages is run by a man from somewhere north - perhaps Denmark - and he was more than happy to help us select some cheeses for the evening. While we were selecting our third cheese, he asked Vous êtes nombreux ? No, it's just the two of us. We just like cheese. It was hard to hold back on the Roquefort and the cheese with flaxseed, but the cerise sur le gâteau was the goat cheese encrusted with golden raisins. Miam miam. An evening walk through Poix and Blangy eased my guilt in enjoying the dinner of salmon in cream sauce, pan seared potatoes, carrots and of course, cheese.