MAMA, GUESS WHAT? We almost goofed!
Well, today is National French Bread Day in France and mama almost forgot to tell me, so there I am lazing around on the little chair next to her computer, lazing and gazing at the same time, and all of a sudden mama scares me to death by crying out, “OH, LOULOU, do you know what today is?”
Hello, mama, of course I know what today is. I was just keeping it to myself, haha.
So we dug up a photo of one of mama’s breads, which you’ve no doubt seen way too often, but also another one of a magnificent fougasse that was baked here in Collioure by our local bakery for mama to celebrate a holiday at our village’s Chateau Chateau Royal.
Pretty nifty, no? And guess what?
It tasted good, too! Even that big!
And of course I was not going to make mama feel bad by reminding her of something she had forgotten.
I am too well-bread.
But when I DID tell her, it got a rise out of her, haha.
That is a big loaf of bread! (Do they call that a loaf?)
Wow,we don’t know what to call it either! A fougasse unfurled? A lacerated loaf? I think a long, long loaf might work?
Fresh baked bread – FABULOUS and your Mama knows alllllll about that subject. We love our bread book your Mama wrote and I’m sure living with her and sampling those goodies she can make is incredibly special!!!!!!
Hugs, Pam
Oh, mama is so happy that you like her book and those loaves make pretty goood BLTs!
That’s one large loaf, Loulou. Wow! Looks yummy.
A little olive oil, or a little butter, or a little honey maybe…? Or some goat cheese?
That looks soo good. I have one of her cookbooks and I made a bread once. I am sure it would have been better if your mama made it. 🙂 XO
Well, keep at the focaccia. It is really easy but you must let the air stay in the dough. Then bake at a very hot temp. I’m sure you would have success, Ellen. Try again, mama says.
That bread looks totally amazing and enough to share too!
Oh, there was plenty to go around.
Oh gosh – we could just about smell that good aroma all the way over here !
Wish it would travel better, mama says.