[How highly do you rate French food ?]

19 minutes ago, NormanH said:

no idea why that photo  looks so dark. It is bright and clear in the original

 

Experiment to see if this works  better

[How highly do you rate French food ?]

For those who have FaceBook this is a good group with  recipes that give an impression of French home cooking  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/283463419554192/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=1054579545775905

 

[How highly do you rate French food ?]

no idea why that photo  looks so dark. It is bright and clear in the original

 

[How highly do you rate French food ?]

Here you go...

[time for new words to dislike ...]

And the American use of "momentarily" to mean 'IN  a moment' rather than "FOR a moment"... as is "your Firefox is updating and will be available momentarily"

I would have preferred that it stayed around for a while..

[No bell-ringing nonsense in France!]

I have always disliked this, since I have had one of my cancers return after two years, and then metastases on the liver 5 years later from the same one. The other cancer has remained in remission but one knows that nothing is certain, so this empty celebration is more wishful thinking than anything else.

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1 hour ago, Riggers said:

I got a three course meal in a French Restaurant in Liverpool for£19.99 last week and it was excellent My three course Christmas lunch in an Italian was £25.99 still okay like everywhere there’s good and bad The prices are going up here though 

Here is the 19.50€ menu from one of my haunts..

[How highly do you rate French food ?]

"Not much on the menu for a 80% vegetarian like me. "

How about this then? Another place where I can watch the preparation through  the window into the kitchen

 

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13 hours ago, DaveLister said:

Very nice Norman, and strikingly similar to the board outside a restaurant I know in a local town that has a reputation for serving 'real French food'. Fortunately few of it's clientele are up at 6:30 when the Brakes van delivers.

In that  Café  the kitchen is open to view and you can speak  to Sandrine as she is cooking. I am sure it is home cooked food.

Don't assume that Brakes and other suppliers delivering means that they are serving meals completely pre-prepared by those firms, although that  is a possibility. Sometimes the restaurateur is buying in ingredients or things such as Ice-cream https://www.krill.fr/trouver-votre-distributeur/sobraques-distribution/

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12 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:

Where are prices please ?

Not much on the menu for a 80% vegetarian like me.

 

 

12 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:

Where are prices please ?

Not much on the menu for a 80% vegetarian like me.

 

15€... each day there is just the one dish.  My point is that it shows  Traditional French FOOD

 

[time for new words to dislike ...]

1) "Raft" to mean 'a range' as in "A raft of measures'

2) "Ramp up" to mean 'increase'  as in "Security will be ramped up"

[How highly do you rate French food ?]

This week's menu in a local café gives a pretty good idea of what I think of as French FOOD, as opposed  to the diet of what is largely NON-French muck described in a previous post..

[VPN on 2nd router]

That soiunds like quite an achievement, but I don't really understand the aim.

Why is a second router needed?  I  can switch my VPN off or on as required

[How highly do you rate French food ?]

Château Milhau - Petit Béret
Route de Cazedarnes
34620 PUISSERGUIER
Le Petit Béret
France

Just outside the town on the way to St Chinian

[General Election]

Will see  if I am refused too

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I have been through the process of  registering to vote and received

[Its OK now…. You can move to France]

And his successor as Minister for Education sends her children to a  private Catholic school, citing  the fact that there was no  cover  for missing teachers, and her children  meet a better class of friends in the private system https://www.liberation.fr/societe/education/enfants-doudea-castera-scolarises-dans-le-prive-cest-lecole-qui-se-fout-de-la-charite-20240112_EF5H2S5UVVBVNPFDPZKDMHT2D4/

 

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I have just   started the process but they want  the  uk Passport number and my old address and post code. So far no nI Number and it accepted  the date I left the UK which is 28 years ago. Haven't finished yet as I have  to look out the passport, but will report back

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5 hours ago, DaveLister said:

Unfair Norman. The question was broad enough to generate a discussion which drifted, as these things do, to the merits of alcohol free drinks. So, to quote ALBF " I give it four stars ".

I was  replying to the original question, not to the "drift" 😉

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I would feel obliged to vote as I have 'banged on' about this for years...

 

[Post christmas....]

Or a with a bit more 'edge'

 

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[Tracing French Pensions]

MP has given  you the main link you need for the "régime générale" so normally that should be enough ....but

You may also have paid into other "régimes" depending on the work you did.

I also have https://www.agirc-arrco.fr

and https://www.ircantec.retraites.fr

 

 

[A quandry]

I enjoy this site

https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/week/béziers_france_3032833

That is for my town, but you can set  it to anywhere in 'location'

On "weather maps'  there is a good menu on the left in which you can choose things. I find the 'radar' option with EU 2 hour interesting

[How highly do you rate French food ?]

This is a ridiculous question: it is difficult to defines "French" food  since there is  such a large range of regional dishes; and personal taste affects the idea of 'rating'.

In this area there are strong influences from Catalan/Spanish and Italian cooking, and hints of North Africa in some of the seasoning. There are restaurants serving everything from Vegan dishes to ribs of beef; seafood platters with oysters, raw mussels  'bulots' and whole crab; and traditional fare such as "Pot au feu", seasonal soups (potiron in October, or "vélouté de champignons " more recently since we finally had a little rain so there were some mushrooms).