Much on Montmartre is of questionable value, both taste and pocketbook. We stumbled on a good bowl at L’Horizon on rue de Rennes/St. Placide. Surprising in this tourist central location. But actually, I’ve never had a bad bowl at a bar/cafe regardless of neighborhood.
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Pommes Dauphinoise
Good. Very good. But still not as unctuous as what I enjoyed in France.
Until I can get back for the real thing, it will have to do.
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Rillettes look wonderful!
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This sounds so good, and I can get veal. What do you think of subbing brandy for Calvados? Not easy to source and we’ll never drink it…
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How about half brandy, half apple juice?
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Clever husband rummaged in the fridge and found remaining splat of rillettes. Fried it up and voila, carnitas → awfully good taco!
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Good idea. Might actually drink that. Like homemade pommeau.
DESSERT: Relais & Chateaux Hotel - Lerida.
Rasberry and chocolate filled …
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There are many Apple brandies on the market both with Alcohol and without alcohol.
A Google search in your región should be very helpful. Though many people use a very dry White wine as well …
Also, calvados is a very useful kitchen stock, useful in both savory and sweet dishes. It is pretty stable and can be kept for (IMHO) years, if need be.
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My bottle was opened years ago. Used mainly for cooking like duck apple combination, use a lot in dessert, can replace rum.
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Back in my drinking days, it used to last for days.
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Wow! Really? Alone?! 
You can buy some miniatures. Here it exists some bigger than miniature bottles, just for cooking. I like pineau but less cognac. The percentage of alcohol in pineau is less than a brandy.
Differences
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Yes & yes.
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Pommeau is a wonderful product. Cheaper than calvados and probably more apple flavor. For us, it is very hard to source. I have suit-cased it home from France several times…then tried to keep dh away from “my” kitchen stash.
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No.
