We moved to a campsite overlooking the ocean just outside the hidden gem of Penestin in southern Brittany. Penestin is on a peninsula with magnificent golden cliffs and sandy beaches. It's well known for it's aquaculture due to its large inter-tidal zone and nutrient rich water. On the beach outside our campsite were mussel and oyster farms. The mussels are grown on stakes surrounded by wire netting and the oysters in horizontal wire cages. The beach was a hive of activity at low tide with fisherman tending their produce in tractors or boats and many others digging in the mud for peppies or harvesting oysters and mussels off the rocks. Not to be outdone we gathered an abundance of peppies, mussels and oysters which we cooked up for lunch. Sam was particularly good at digging in the mud!
To continue the seafood theme we visited the local poissonerie and bought langoustines, sardines, crab claws as well as more peppies and mussels. Then we had a cook-off. Richard did moules with a very fine fennel and white wine sauce, Chan cooked langoustines and sardines on the BBQ and Rog lightly floured sardines and fried them in garlic and olive oil. They were the best sardines we've ever tasted. The mussels are particularly sweet... Apparently it's mussel season.
You may ask what my contribution was... Chief taster!!
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