#langres

Girls' school in Langres, Champagne region of France

Jusepe de Ribera, Jésus parmi les docteurs, vers 1612-1613, huile sur toile, détail, musée de Langres, exposition Petit Palais, Paris ; source photo : @cheminer-poesie-cressant

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tu soulèves ton drap pour couvrir un peu tes douleurs

le drap qui est ce qui nous sépare

et pourtant je les vois encore bouger sous son froissé

qui me restitue le silence atroce de tes plaintes

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© Pierre Cressant

Chapelle dans les Bois at Beaulieu Abbey, Haute-Amance, France

 Inspired --as I so often am-- both by Nigel Slater and my absolute dedication not to waste any food, I baked this delicious Cheese Bread and Butter Pudding. It is perfectly comforting on a grey, chill, foggy day like today, and Nigel is right about such a dish’s “soul-warming quality”! Happy Monday!

Ingredients (serves 2 to 4):

about 300 grams/9 ounces day-old bread (I used Sourdough Loaf and Rye Bread)

unsalted butter, softened

leftover cheeses (here we have 30 grams/1 ounce  Roquefort, 15 grams/1/2 ounce Langres and 45 grams/1 1/2 ounce Cumin Gouda)

2 large eggs

a pinch of salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper

1/2 cup double cream

1/4 semi-skimmed milk

1/4 Gewurztraminer (or other moelleux to sweet wine)

Parmesan Cheese

a small Green Onion

Generously butter a baking dish; set aside.

Preheat oven to 180°C/355°F.

Cut Sourdough Loaf and Rye Bread into slices and generously butter them on each side.

In the baking dish, arrange buttered Bread slices. Cut chosen cheeses into small chunks and scatter them, crumbling Roquefort of blue cheese if using any, in between and on top of buttered Loaf slices. 

Whisk the eggs with salt and black pepper in a medium bowl. Gradually whisk in double cream, milk and Gewurztraminer wine, until well-blended. Pour egg mixture all over the bread and cheese. Generously grate Parmesan on top.

Place baking dish in the middle of the hot oven, and bake, at 180°C/355°F, for 30 minutes, until golden brown.

Finely chop Green Onion.

Remove from the oven, and scatter chopped Green Onion on top.

IL PLEUT SUR LE CANAL.