and a bouteille de vin later....

our 2 euro bottle of wine looks pretty good here.....


mmmm, much better dinner tonight. last night was ok but it was very clear to me that we need some work on using our little french kitchen and our odd assortment of pots, pans, and kitchen utensils... christina and i found the monoprix, a nice little supermarket just across the bridge, and we bought some groceries and some things for dinner. i made a fancy little salad with nice lettuce, fromage de chevre, pears, pecans, grilled chicken, and mom's shallot vinaigrette. very tasty! christina also picked out a cheap bottle of wine - 2 euros! - that was suprisingly tasty. of course, i don't know enough about wine to know the difference, but ca va all the same! scottie had bought a little kit for making a lentil dish. she added onions and the left0ver sausage from last night's dinner and it was delicious! we will definitely make that again. i've been pleased to find that we're already finding meals that are relatively inexpensive to make. the only problem is that even when i dash over to the supermarche to buy things for dinner, i inevitably find cool new things. i'm especially susceptible to produits with cute french packaging. oh laurel..... tonight i succombed to little yogurt-sized cups of chocolate mousse. couldn't help myself.
since today is the 6 janvier, we also had a "galette de rois", since we'd all learned about it in high school french classes. we invited the girls from downstairs to come share, and it's a good thing we did - it was reallllly tasty but very rich, and we probably would have made ourselves ill eating the whole thing! i was glad to have a chance to chat with the other girls too.... they seem really nice and i want to be friends!
Well, i'm going polish off the rest of my wine and probably head to bed soon. we have to get up really early to meet the bus for the bourgogne excursion... too early.... a demain!!!