Bunnies for sale. Skinless, bone in.

This is not something you would see in the United States. This huge sign was on the main square in Hyeres for several days featured a dead rabbit. The word France is strategically placed over its head but you can see it's once fuzzy little body there in its entirety. Hence the word entier.

Architecture in Hyeres.

The old town, built in the god-knows-whens, is very fortress like. Small streets, thick thick walls, lots of stone, tiny windows. As the city grew, the architecture changed. The styles get more and more modern in rings around the old fortified city. The top picture is a residence a few block outside the old walls. The bottom picture is a relatively new structure built to match the part of the city it's in. It is lovely and I never realized that it was new until Loralyn pointed it out to me. 

Ratatouille.

Assemble the ingredients.

Remove skin from peppers and tomatoes. The process of charring the skins off the peppers was not as easy as you'd imagine.

Girolles fried in butter. I could say saute but, well, really, they're fried. They're delicious.

Drain everything. Not sure why, it's a rule. But I added the juice to the sauce anyway.

Caramelize the tomato paste and add red wine once that's done.

Add tomato sauce or in this case crushed tomatoes. Not something we have in the US, at least not this product which tasted like ripe raw tomatoes.

Et voila. Ratatouille.