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| French food alphabet calendar |
Welcome to my French Food
Alphabet Advent Calendar where I am working my way through a selection of
delicious food posts; some are regional specialities, some are my personal
favourite foods, some posts include recipes, but all are linked to French food
and drink. I hope you are enjoying your virtual tastings.
It’s the 19th
December and S is for Seafood Platter.
A seafood platter is a dish of
celebration for the French and is often served for the Christmas Eve or New
Years Eve Reveillon meal. Until a week
ago I was a seafood platter virgin. I had sampled some of its delights
individually, but never had the courage (or budget) to order the full theatre
of sitting in a restaurant with a dominating platter hovering above the table.
This was something that needed addressing and at a pre-Christmas meal with
French friends I was initiated. As you can see from the photo this was one
loaded platter with oysters, prawns, langoustines, crab and sea snails. It was
a lovely relaxing evening, everyone just dug in and munched away at their own
pace, stopping every once in a while to show me how to remove the sea snails
from their shells and attack the crab. It was a great fun evening with good
food and lovely company.
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