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<\/a><\/p>\nThe evening was certainly one to remember. We started eating at 9pm, and we finished the last dessert (yes, that means there was more than one) at 2:54am. When I arrived the kitchen was bustling just like you see in a restaurant during the peak hours, with people running around and things sizzling. I retired to the living room to listen to the music and keep out of the way, and soon everything was ready. We all sat around the dinner table, and then proceeded to eat, talk, and sing our way through the next 8 courses, and 6 hours. We did take a short ‘snowball fight’ break, but it literally did go on for that long. <\/p>\n
The Menu…truly magnificent! More Entr\u00e8es<\/strong> Plat Principal<\/strong> Plat Principal #2 <\/strong>(this one took me by surprise because I thought we were done…) Du pain et fromage<\/strong>, fait \u00e0 la main Bread and homemade cheeses<\/em><\/p>\n Digestif<\/strong> Dessert<\/strong> I think the funniest part of the evening was when we tried to go retrieve the Christmas cake, which had been chilling on the balcony, and realized that it was completely buried under the snow. <\/p>\n Seth will be coming to join me here on Thursday, and we will be hanging out in Grenoble for Christmas, hoping to do some skiing, sleeping in, and hopefully, more good eating! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well it feels like Christmas has arrived in Grenoble all of a sudden, with an amazing (pre)Christmas dinner and a lot of snow! I have decided to move apartments over Christmas, because although the family I am currently living with is really nice, I miss living with people the same age as me. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEntr\u00e8es<\/strong>
\nUn pur\u00e8e aux carottes, avec coriandre et cr\u00e8me fraiche
\nUn pot de cr\u00e8me, melang\u00e8 avec les tomates seches et du jambon cru A little pot with cream, sundried tomatoes, and proscuitto<\/em>
\n(Served with a sparkling white wine)<\/p>\n
\nLes huitres, cru, du pain avec du beurre sal\u00e9 huitres are oysters. cru is raw. I was not a fan…<\/em>
\n(served with Gevertzraminner – not sure how to spell that…)<\/p>\n
\nLes St. Jacques, avec les poireax \u00e0 cr\u00e8me et du pain Scallops fried with onions and herbs, and leeks cooked with cream. And bread.<\/em>
\n(served with un bordeaux)<\/p>\n
\nUn rago\u00fbt du sanglier, avec du chou et les pommes cuit Wild boar and potato stew, with stewed cabbage<\/em>
\n(served with some other kind of red wine…I kind of lost track by this point)<\/p>\n
\nSorbet aux citrons verts avec vodka Homemade lime sorbet with a shot of vodka poured over it<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLa b\u00fbche de Noel The traditional French Christmas cake, shaped like a log, covered in chocolate cream. Delicious.<\/em>
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