Stage 5: Cholet --> Châteauroux

Today the Tour is in the Pays-de-la-Loire. After my afternoon trip to the farmers' market, here's how my menu looked:

• Melon and fig salad with basil cream
• Weatherhand Farm chicken legs cooked with thyme and onions
• A green salad
• Fresh olive bread accompanied with Elodie Farms chevre rolled in crushed black pepper
• Lyon Farms peaches

The starter recipe is from Georgeanne Brennan's Savoring France, and the chicken was inspired by a recipe by Susan Hermann Loomis.