[…] Wine Growers Fair at Porte de Versailles this weekend and pick up some more Sancerre for our oysters on Sunday before we ran out which would have been a disaster! Most of the wine in our cellar was originally […]
Maple Leaf
December 15th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I thought about your oyster post today since my husband was just given oysters as a Christmas gift from his company. Unfortunately, it’s not the best gift for us. My husband has some kind of intolerance. I guess it’s not technically an allergy but the result is pretty much the same. As for me, to put it mildly, I’m not a fan. I’ve tried them twice. Two different kinds. I really don’t get why people like them so much. The texture is not appealing and they taste like seawater to me.
I feel like I’m missing something in a way because so many people like them!
Fraussie
December 16th, 2011 at 1:00 am
What a pity! I wonder if you’ve tried the “spéciales”? I don’t think much of the ordinary “fines de claires” which I agree are very salty and of not much interest at all. Have you tried them grilled in the oven? Do you like seafood in general?
[…] also like to buy our favourite “spéciales” oysters from Normandy but this year, for some unknown reason, there wasn’t a single oyster vendor on […]
[…] burgundies for red and Alsatian wines (particularly rieslings) and chardonnay for white, although sancerre does have a small following. There is actually an historical reason for this, but that’s one of […]
[…] we set out for the Saint Eustache market in the rain. We cheer ourselves up by buying our favourite spéciales oysters and fill the shopping trolley with vegetables and chasselas grapes which are the only fruit we eat […]
[…] mentioned the wine. So I decided to cut down to one glass at lunch and two at dinner, except for oysters on Sundays when we usually drank a bottle of sancerre between […]
[…] now that we have our own albeit delinquent nightingales) to buy sancerre for our spéciale oysters on Sunday, but took his Essentiel this time at €9.50 a […]
[…] of the weather. We have an addiction to fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh fish and, of course, oysters on Sunday. When it snowed last week, we wondered how many vendors we would find. As we walked out the front […]
[…] of course, huîtres spéciales are those lovely juicy oysters fattened in small numbers in deep oyster parks which have a sort of sweet salty lingering taste […]
[…] checked out our wine list beforehand, we know we need sancerre, a Loire Valley sauvignon, for our spéciales oysters, quincy, another, less well-known Loire Valley sauvignon for fish and corbières from […]
[…] the market, we spilt up to get some money out of the D.A.B., buy the oysters for Sunday, then the rabbit and chicken, followed by eggs, fruit and vegetables, coffee, more vegetables, […]
[…] winter, we start with the oyster vendor and buy two dozen spéciales as these are our favourites. At 7.20 euro a dozen, they are considerably cheaper than the ones we […]
[…] the traiteur, a côte de boeuf, lamb chops, champagne, a vintage red or two, a couple of dozen of spéciale oysters and a bottle of sancerre. However, after we bought Closerie Falaiseau four years ago and […]
[…] canal so we set off to walk along it to the Bastille market where we’re going to buy oysters to take back to the flat for our traditional Sunday […]
[…] was followed by (small portions of) spéciale oysters, smoked salmon and foie gras with quincy bought at the wine fair recently (a Loire Valley sauvignon […]
Yes those are beautiful oysters. I checked out the website for Patrick Liron oysters and was interested to note the speciales from Utah Beach
[…] Wine Growers Fair at Porte de Versailles this weekend and pick up some more Sancerre for our oysters on Sunday before we ran out which would have been a disaster! Most of the wine in our cellar was originally […]
I thought about your oyster post today since my husband was just given oysters as a Christmas gift from his company. Unfortunately, it’s not the best gift for us. My husband has some kind of intolerance. I guess it’s not technically an allergy but the result is pretty much the same. As for me, to put it mildly, I’m not a fan. I’ve tried them twice. Two different kinds. I really don’t get why people like them so much. The texture is not appealing and they taste like seawater to me.
I feel like I’m missing something in a way because so many people like them!
What a pity! I wonder if you’ve tried the “spéciales”? I don’t think much of the ordinary “fines de claires” which I agree are very salty and of not much interest at all. Have you tried them grilled in the oven? Do you like seafood in general?
[…] also like to buy our favourite “spéciales” oysters from Normandy but this year, for some unknown reason, there wasn’t a single oyster vendor on […]
[…] burgundies for red and Alsatian wines (particularly rieslings) and chardonnay for white, although sancerre does have a small following. There is actually an historical reason for this, but that’s one of […]
[…] we set out for the Saint Eustache market in the rain. We cheer ourselves up by buying our favourite spéciales oysters and fill the shopping trolley with vegetables and chasselas grapes which are the only fruit we eat […]
[…] mentioned the wine. So I decided to cut down to one glass at lunch and two at dinner, except for oysters on Sundays when we usually drank a bottle of sancerre between […]
[…] now that we have our own albeit delinquent nightingales) to buy sancerre for our spéciale oysters on Sunday, but took his Essentiel this time at €9.50 a […]
[…] anything I wasn’t allowed to eat (apart from wheat). I could still have côte de boeuf and oysters on […]
[…] of the weather. We have an addiction to fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh fish and, of course, oysters on Sunday. When it snowed last week, we wondered how many vendors we would find. As we walked out the front […]
[…] the Sainte Eustache market on Sunday, there were only two regular stalls – fruit & vegetables and fish and […]
[…] of course, huîtres spéciales are those lovely juicy oysters fattened in small numbers in deep oyster parks which have a sort of sweet salty lingering taste […]
[…] checked out our wine list beforehand, we know we need sancerre, a Loire Valley sauvignon, for our spéciales oysters, quincy, another, less well-known Loire Valley sauvignon for fish and corbières from […]
[…] the market, we spilt up to get some money out of the D.A.B., buy the oysters for Sunday, then the rabbit and chicken, followed by eggs, fruit and vegetables, coffee, more vegetables, […]
[…] winter, we start with the oyster vendor and buy two dozen spéciales as these are our favourites. At 7.20 euro a dozen, they are considerably cheaper than the ones we […]
[…] the traiteur, a côte de boeuf, lamb chops, champagne, a vintage red or two, a couple of dozen of spéciale oysters and a bottle of sancerre. However, after we bought Closerie Falaiseau four years ago and […]
[…] canal so we set off to walk along it to the Bastille market where we’re going to buy oysters to take back to the flat for our traditional Sunday […]
[…] was followed by (small portions of) spéciale oysters, smoked salmon and foie gras with quincy bought at the wine fair recently (a Loire Valley sauvignon […]