Tarte aux Pommes 🍎 à la Normande surgelés Picard

 

Painting a Normande apple 🍎 tarte is not a piece of cake 🍰 

I should know. I’ve been MIA this past week eating apple tartes

And sick in bed 🛌 from a cold 😢 I obviously stayed too long at the fair (SIAL) last week. 

I had the bright idea if I baked a Picard Tarte Normande…the apple aromas would help inspire the October 🍁 letter. 

These pre-baked things never come out looking the glorious way they look on the package. Sprinkling cinnamon on top, didn’t help the aesthetics much🤷‍♀️

It was the Fête de Ventre in Rouen that got me in an apple 🍎 frame of mind.

Any chance to draw ✍️ the French 

In Normande costume must be encouraged 👍

I did not manage to get the petit chien 🐕 in the picture. 

There are over 400 varieties of apples in France.

Who knew Karl Lagerfeld’s beloved cat Choupette was named after an apple 🍎?

Here’s a bit of contrarian information. There are over 750 varieties of apples 🍎 in Normandy alone, 

But this includes cider apples. These are not table fruits. Small, dry, sugary, acidic and they are full of tanins.

Apples are the No.1 fruit eaten in France 🇫🇷 ahead of oranges 🍊 and bananas 🍌 More vital information.

Apples 🍎 like so many foods we take for granted, originated in Central Asia, near Tajikistan and north western China.

Tonight is the opening of the Salon du Chocolat 🍫 I do not intend to overdo things. Famous last words…wish me luck🤞

Full chocolate 🍫 report tomorrow 🙏