oh, que c’est bon!

today after church there were a couple of different families that were staying after to eat together, and they invited us to eat with them... since a) we were gonna be eating there anywho and b) one of the families was our ride home from church, and they knew that we weren’t going anywhere.

woah... it was scrumptious.  there were a couple of salads... mostly made of endives and “mache.”  i’m not entirely sure what that is.  and i’m not nearly concerned enough to look it up.  suffice it to say it’s green and leafy.

uh... quickly, while were on the subject of salad... why don’t we eat more endives in the states?  they’re really quite good.  i think i’ve eaten them once outside of france.  is the bitterness really THAT bad?  honestly, folks...

ok.  done.

for the main course, there were two dishes:  a potatoe... thing.  uhhh... it was like au gratin potatoes... but with a tomato sauce instead of a creamy cheese-type sauce.  and whitney claims there was hamburger in it.  i don’t recall this part...

oh... the bread!  someone brought some homemade bread.  a nice little change from the  usual baguette -- as good as they are.

the second... oh! the second...  lasagna.   oh, but not just any lasagna, my friends.  this... this is france!  silly old italian lasagna... no, no, no!  this was salmon lasagna.  smoked salmon, i believe.  with green olives, mushrooms... and some sort of green leafy object.  i’m not entirely sure what that was... but it was good.  i ate like a portion and a half before i even realized the plant growth was in there.

so good.

wow.

oh.

yeah.

good.

jeepers.

dessert was crème anglaise... uh... i think it’s a custard of some sort (i’m not really sure how else to describe it if you’ve never had it...)  with cookies and biscuits and stuffs of the like.  and cigars (pirouette... but without all the chocolate...).

and we got to keep the left over lasagna.  :)

p.s. -- it snowed.