Mousserons in May
Or Mirande market mushrooms...ok, enough aliteration. Except I should add mmmmmmmm......they were delicious. Mirande market is wonderful from inside halles where people can have just half a table to flog a few herbs or jars of honey to the enormous cheese caravans or the groaning vegetables stalls. We spotted the man with the mousserons inside. He had lined his baskets with leaves and moss and carefully cleaned and trimmed each mushroom. Whilst he was weighing our 200g (at 30 euros a kilo I was being careful) an old lady came up to sniff. She held a mushroom to her nose and inhaled deeply. A wide satisfied smile told us she was impressed.
We had them for dinner, cooked simply in a little butter, green garlic and parsley. I added creme fraiche at the last minute and spooned them into choux puffs. We ate them on the terrace in the last of the warm sun with a glass of Rivesaltes.
