Poulet Vallée d’Auge

The Vallée d’Auge in Normandy is a green, lush region famous for its cream, cheese and apples. This is the type of rich, pre-nouvelle cuisine dish that gives French cooking a bad name but that everyone secretly adores: cream, wine, chicken and mushrooms must be the most has-been but heavenly combo in all of French cuisine.

It is the first recipe I ever cooked for a dinner party, from the first cookery book I owned, French Cooking by El