Another crisp from the usually reliable French firm Bénénuts. Well, it's not a crisp of course; it's a faux chip (french fry) type crispy snack. But none the worse for that. In fact I really like this style of crispy snack, and although the Chef has not admitted it, I notice he keeps going back to the packet for more. And then complaining he shouldn't have. Is that my fault? Of course not.
Of course, another product from Bénénuts means recourse to the weirdly slow and clunky character viewer. I have it on my menu bar but it still takes an age to open every time I need an accent.
So anyway, another very nice crispy crunchy snack. But does it taste "Nature"? Which basically is the old fashioned ready salted. Does it? No. Really strangely this crispy snack tastes quite chickeny. Er... or maybe quite like a chicken stock cube? "A vague taste of chicken flavour," contributes the Chef, "it's odd. Not Nature at all". But he still quite likes them.
We visited the Chateau de Pierrefonds. It was a ruin until substantially rebuilt in the 1800s by Viollet-le-Duc. It looms over the pretty little town of Pierrefonds; there's a lake, and the whole place is surrounded by woodland. The Chef and I spent a while dreaming at an estate agent's window. We could sell the house in London and buy a really beautiful one (with 6 bedrooms!) in the town of Pierrefonds.... and retire to the lap of luxury. It's not as though we are super rich or anything; it's just London prices versus rural France. I expect we'll stay in London. Because visiting France is lovely, but we live in London. Probably.
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