I did a "British meal" for the girls in the foyer with Kathryn a while back. It genuinely took all weekend to prepare! We made "Beef and onion cobbler" with a chocolate moussey thing for pudding and then tea and coffee and shortbread and garibaldi and after eights - it was a great success! I must confess though, once I got into the eating part I forgot to take pictures! It genuinely looked and tasted far better than these photos make out.
Then one Monday night I was wandering about with Min and we decided to eat Korean food:
Korean barbecue (no, I do NOT believe it was dog)
This was actually the third day running of chopsticks! I'd had an outrageously good japanese meal with Xin-Yi from work on Saturday, Min had made me some chinese food on Sunday and then this on Monday! I am quite the chopsticks expert these days you know.
This was actually the third day running of chopsticks! I'd had an outrageously good japanese meal with Xin-Yi from work on Saturday, Min had made me some chinese food on Sunday and then this on Monday! I am quite the chopsticks expert these days you know.
Then one night coming home from the library I found this garden! It was full of flowers and lovely smells and a BAT!!When I came back the next night with my camera it was a little too dark for photos though:
Oh and I found a WONDERFUL boulangerie that sold delicious sandwiches and I was very hungry so I got two baguettes (my eyes were bigger than my tummy but I did *eventually* finish them both) this one is brie and onion chutney with rocket and the other was tuna and paprika with something else good that I can't remember. I sat and read in the sunshine!
Then I went to continue the sunshine reading in bois de boulogne and everything was just beginning to become green again! It rained towards the end of the afternoon and I naturally reached into my bag for my umbrella and carried on strolling the park but everyone else just huddled under trees waiting for it to stop! It made me laugh because it clearly marked me out as English because I a) always carry an umbrella on me b) don't let rain stop my afternoon and c) had no expectation that the rain would pass before tomorrow!
Then Sunday I went out to a exhibition of a jewish man who had illustrated the Bible - it was really really good but I couldn't take photos. I went with a group from church and so had my very own guides on hand to explain all the stories (I SWEAR I'd never heard some of them!) which meant I've pretty much heard the whole Bible in French. It was exhausting. So I had ice-cream with Min and Anne-Laure on the way home.
This was it when I went back on Saturday:
Oh and I found a WONDERFUL boulangerie that sold delicious sandwiches and I was very hungry so I got two baguettes (my eyes were bigger than my tummy but I did *eventually* finish them both) this one is brie and onion chutney with rocket and the other was tuna and paprika with something else good that I can't remember. I sat and read in the sunshine!
Then I went to continue the sunshine reading in bois de boulogne and everything was just beginning to become green again! It rained towards the end of the afternoon and I naturally reached into my bag for my umbrella and carried on strolling the park but everyone else just huddled under trees waiting for it to stop! It made me laugh because it clearly marked me out as English because I a) always carry an umbrella on me b) don't let rain stop my afternoon and c) had no expectation that the rain would pass before tomorrow!
Then Sunday I went out to a exhibition of a jewish man who had illustrated the Bible - it was really really good but I couldn't take photos. I went with a group from church and so had my very own guides on hand to explain all the stories (I SWEAR I'd never heard some of them!) which meant I've pretty much heard the whole Bible in French. It was exhausting. So I had ice-cream with Min and Anne-Laure on the way home.
