The King of Fish gets cooked…

Every year Navarrenx, where we live ,has a cooking competition on Bastille Day, the 14th of July, called the ‘Saumonade’. It involves forming a team and coming up with a theme to dress onesselves and your cooking area and a recipe to cook a salmon in an innovative way. This year we decided to be castaways, using old clothes and hats, even making the front of a ship-wrecked boat out of cardboard.

Too many cooks...

Whilst a Frenchman and an Englishman tried to make a South American cocktail, the real chef was cooking a Thai inspired spicy salmon to impress the judges.

Something smells fishy...

Not that we’ve got any photos of it, but it was delicious believe me. Did it win anything? Only the second best plate decoration. The French have still got to get used to food being a little bit spicy.

A delicious repas was served at lunchtime and great fun was had by everybody, as usual. Roll on next year.