Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Five Hour Lunch

Caramel pork ribs, fresh country bread, and a French potato dish consisted of the main part of a lazy afternoon meal.

If I haven't mentioned it already, Mindy and I are getting the royal treatment here in France when it comes to hospitality. The end result of all this hospitable behaviour has been many memorable meals where we have been forced to try new and exciting foods and receipes.

Besides my teammate Romain, Marc & Jocelyn have been extremely generous and decided that another Sunday meal was long overdue. I hesistate to call it lunch, although I did in the post title, due to the fact that it pretty much consists of the main meal for the day for us. And of course, a meal at Marc & Jocelyn's is not an eat and run situation as the title suggests. And so we dined from 1:00pm straight through to 6:00pm.

We started with foie gras appetizers before moving on to the main course as decribed above. Everything was unique to our pallets and Jocelyn inisited on second servings for all of us. We then moved on the cheese plate where a selection of cheeses including goat were sampled. After settling our meals, it was time for not one, but two desserts as we were tempted and indulged in a cream based jelly with biscuits before we were served stuffed baked apples. As usual, everything was delicious.

Dessert Number 1...


and Dessert Number 2! The two dessert system should become a component of every meal in my books.

2 comments:

Karen said...

This looks so delicious and so relaxing. Perhaps you will bring back the recipes and we'll try this here.

rodgerfamily said...

How come you guys have not put on 20 lbs?
This all looks so amzing.
One would have to eat alot of cheese to warrant having a girole at home.
L