Sunday, August 2, 2009

Had to Share...

I am absolutely dying for a big juicy American burger with the works, a rare steak or big meaty BBQ ribs right now! Well, I can make a mean burger anywhere with some good fixins...
Good thing there is nothing like that here so I just have to get through it!

BBQ Ribs with Beef - Feeds 6-8 http://media.hamptonroads.com/images/fun/burger.jpg

Monday, July 27, 2009

Stockholm and Gallno


For my aunts birthday we brought two bottles of champagne and some foie gras



A bit cold but on the raft it is nice!

First course of vasterbottenpaj with
löjrom and creme fraiche

Not so many pictures from sweden. I must have been tired of being a tourist!

Epernay, Champagne The real deal baby!


I loved our Citroen! We got a bigger one than i wanted but worked out well.


View of Cramant, the village our bed and breakfast was in http://www.champagne-eric-isselee.com/


View of the area around Cramant

The champagne I LOVED. I wish I was able to buy a bottle but we had already bought two with limited space and funds :(

The dead yeast which has settled after careful turning of the bottles into the up right position

So cool lighting, I want this!

In the cellar at AP

Yummy salads. Rita had a Nicoise and I had a duck supreme with foie gras, magret de canard, duck confit, magret fume, and potatoes fried in duck fat.


The fancy collector bottles that would not even taste great if you opened them! I dont understand that type of collecting. If it taste awful and not good anymore, how is it worth thousands of euros??



At Castellane champange house along the Route de Champagne


The view from the patio of our B&B


Our french breakfast

Our room

My yummy fish dish at Le Grillade. I had a gaspacho starter with langostinos and cantelope also that was fab





All the fancy Champagne houses in Epernay




Our first visit at Mercier with a laser guided train in the cellars and then a tasting outside on the terrace.

Paris again but this time with the big sis!


Inside Versailles


This is the best warning sign ever!


My poor whitey sister trying not to get burned while having a picnic in the gardens of Versailles on Bastille Day

Work it work it! Rita Hayworth we love you...VOGUE!



The sisters at The Louvre...too bad it was closed!

Rita and I discovered a cooking shop that was our heaven. If only i had a place, kitchen and money to buy the real cooking stuff! Soon, soon....

On the cruise on the Seine



French mafia!


Ohhh, one of the best things about Paris, Petit Grec and their crepes!

View from on top of the Pantheon

You can see Sacre Coeur





Jardin Luxembourg on a nice sunny morning