While Michelle and I were walking in the plentyful streets of Bandol and having a "Perrier-mente", Jean-Pierre was in the kitchen cooking a gourmet meal for us!
We started with mussles from Tamaris, tamaris is a bush that grows on the coast in the area, and these mussles come from farms in Seyne-sur-Mer, very close to Sanary where we were.
We enjoyed a rose from Provence, a Chateau de Mauvanne, served at the perfect temperature. The main course was .. fish! 
A wild mediterranean sea bass per person, beautifully presented with a Horn of abundance made with fillo and filled with cous-cous flavored with cumin. 
The vegetable garnish was a little tower made with local vegetables: slices of zucchini, aubergine, and tomato that had been cooked in the oven with very little olive oil and put together in a metal ring which is removed once you have filled it with layers of vegetable.
I am not sure we were ready for more .. but more came! A cheese platter with two different local goat cheeses, a larger round sheep milk cheese and a Camembert .. from Normandy! 
Jean-Piere asked to be left alone in the kitchen for a few minutes to prepare dessert ... and we were stunned by his skills! He served us a "delination" of pineaple: roasted pineapple presented in a kebab, pineapple custard presented in a verrine, home made pineapple pound cake .. and pineaple icecream ..We joked he had to open a restuarant .. "Chez Jean-Pierre"!
PS: I hope you like my new blog design! Laura
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