On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:28:17 +0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw
> wrote:

>Well, you should have seen the "tacos" I got at a "Tex-Mex"
>restaurant on the Bord de Mer in Villaneuve-Loubet. They were
>pretty funny, too. They were grilled.
>
>Not bad, though.

I saw a Tex-Mex joint in Biarritz (I think it was there, not in
Montauban), but passed it by. The duck confit and the terrines de
pays (sp?) and the cured duck breast on chevre were more the point
where we were. I live in Texas when I'm not on vacation. Tex-Mex I
can get. Can't get away from it, actually.
>
>> But we found a burrito
>> "kit" in a Champion grocery store. Old El Paso, in fact.
>> Globalization is scary. We tossed the spice mix and used garlic,
>> oregano, cumin and some chiles we brought with us to season the meat.
>
>Ah.

I forgot to mention that we put lots of garlic in the meat, too.
>
>Me, I miss being able to buy canned cassoulet. And decent
>bread, of course.

Love that bread, too. I also got a lot of pleasure from visiting the
bucherie near my daughter's apartment. The guy really wanted to show
me what good meat tastes like -- to the extent that he sold me
something I didn't ask for on a couple of occasions. I took to
calling him the meat Nazi. But he was right. He knew stuff about
meat that I didn't. He was the reason I bought onglets one evening.
Yum.


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