Barbecue suppers are a favourite with B&B's--and friends--and family. This year they've been slow taking off and we thought it time to get started!
Friday 18th June-- should be a great date for a barbecue! It's nearly midsummer's day! We're in between B&B's so let's invite all those to whom we owe an evening's grub!
I understand that so far we've had the wettest June on French record. All day Friday was grey--with just a hint of blue sky now & then! We decided to risk it--and laid up the tables in the 'outside dining-room'.
Having veggie guests ( thank heavens they ate fish!) made me decide to stick with a fishy menu:-
grilled mushrooms stuffed with spinach/tomato & topped with blue cheese,
or stuffed with onions in a cream sauce/tomato & goat cheese
followed by prawns tossed in ginger butter
and then homemade salmon & crab cakes served with salad.
For pud I made kir royale cherry & strawberry jellies--- and Sheilah brought the piece de la resistance--- jam doughnuts! These were dunked & rolled in sugar ( French doughnuts are tight on the sugar!) and then cooked on the barbecue!
This coincided with a heavy downpour of rain, but the barbie was pulled under the roof of the shed & nobody noticed!
Copious quantities of red and white wine were consumed throughout the meal and soon after midnight all was wrapped up with coffee and fruit & nut chocolate (French!)-- at which point I remembered the camera & all the photos that I'd planned to take throughout the meal.I rushed around taking pictures at all angles! It was too late and we all look bleary eyed & terrible! They are not good--or flattering--and Janice says she'll pay me not to publish!!--which is why there are only 'before' photos!
--after which everybody wandered off home--or to bed!
ps. In spite of threats from the non-veggies, Boris the cat was not barbecued. He just supervised all the proceedings.
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