I'lll have to add a couple pics later, but this weekend was fairly tame and relaxing. On friday night, we had a little soirée chez nous. Saturday, we picnicked at the Place de Vendome, which has a lovely little mansion surrounded by manicured gardens. I helped Steven prepare the picnic which consisted of sandwiches on baguettes with goat cheese, basil, and tomatoes, the following French potato salad, and a handful of madelaines.
Steven's French potato salad:
Boil cubed fingerling and red potatoes. Chop up one fennel bulb. Emulsify olive oil, Dijon mustard, white wine vinegar, and salt and pepper. Strain potatoes and put in large bowl. Add fennel. Pour dressing over potatoes and fennel and toss in fresh tarragon. Salt and pepper to taste.
It's easy! And you need to try it!
Today there was a huge presentation of all the organizations in and around Aix. I found several places where I could take swing dancing lessons, or something close to it. I also found a schedule of several upcoming concerts. The next couple days I will be selecting classes, and on Tuesday I have a meeting with the director of psychology research at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille. She's going to match me up with an fMRI neuroimaging lab where I can volunteer in Marseille. Yay!
French word of the day:
pomme de terre (pom de tare) = potato
Il faut que tu essaies la recette de Steven pour la salade aux pommes de terre.
- christin
- When Europe calls, I answer. I will be studying at the Université de Provence in Aix, and I will be playing anywhere I can go in the ten months I'm supposed to spend studying there.
4 comments:
picnic. mmmm
What? The French don't like potatoes. If they really liked them, they wouldn't have made the word for them so many words. Silly.
I'll have to try that salad thinger.
geez becca. pomme de terre literally means "apple of earth." they like them so much that they named them after the fruit that started all sin. that's a lot of importance placed on a potato.
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