Im writing this blog a bit later – on the 27th of December because I haven’t had much time to write in the last few days ...
On the 25th we went and had lunch at sohpie’s mums house ... she lives in another village about a 20 minute drive from les avenieres ... she lives in a village called ‘La Tour de Pin’ – this is where the main tran station in the area is from ...
We had lunch with sohpie’s brother and his family – him and his two children ... his wife was working ...
Thisssssss is what we had for lunch:
Hors d’oeuvres (with our champagne) – doritios and cheese/ snails and herb butter/ mini ham and cream cheese sandwiches
Entrée: the carnivores had foie gras (cancerous duck liver yuk) and I had an advocado salad; they have this avocado salad thing whch is really ‘chic’ inf rance, its just an avocado cut in half with mayonnaise where the seed is meant to be – this is a real delicacy in france!!! Its so crazy and its so plain haha and they think its wonderful!!! And they NEVER eat avocado in sandwiches ... for those of you that don’t know, foie gras is liver and the way that they cook it, is they grow ducks and force feed them until they get sick and their livers get covered in fat and they de from fatness and then the French eat the liver!! Its sick!!!! Its like fatty liver ... the one we had here for Christmas was covered in this yellow fat juice ... really gross ... now u no wat mean by French eating weird meat
For main course:
A chicory gratin: chicory is a vegetable like celery it was baked in a creamy sauce maud out of flour and water (like you make at home mum) and baked with breadcrumbs and cheese on top
Green beans
Endives – roasted in the oven (a vegetable)
Bread (as we have wth every meal) – they eat so many bread sticks and thnk its healthy!!! They NEVER eat healthy multigrain or wholemeal bread ... but they think that white bread is healthy@! The French have NO idea what healthy is ... they think healthy is eating Nutella on your toast only 2 times a week instead of every day ... that’s something that’s hugely different between Australia and france ... Australians actually UNDERSTAND what health is and australians eat bigger meals and snack on fruit ... the French area lucky to eat one piece of fruit a day ... they have the strangest ideas on what is healthy ...
And the meat eatsres had veal cooked with chestnuts
Desert
anddddd cofeee and cheese after the meal ... I took some photos
after lunch we did the family thing and just sat around talking ... I was still so full from the night before and was SOOO soo soo going to POP from food
me Patrice and maud fell asleep on the couches at grandmas house ... then that afternoon I came home and slept ... the others watched some tv. ... we didn’t have din we were too full just a yoghurt each
I spke to aunty Suzanne that night to say merry chrstmas ..
And then I went to bed after my yoghurt haha was so so tired couldn’t really stay up ... and that was the end of chrstmas day
