Diner Chez David Marker

We had the wonderful opportunity to go to David Markers house for dinner last night. David is our American connection at ESC. He is a professor of management at ESC. he has been living in clermont for about 6? years now with his wife and 2 kids. so, we got to eat french food in an American environment... it was kinda like going to the embassy...i would imagine.

we had boeuf au vin, which is beef in a red wine sauce with mushrooms and those little baby onions. our side was green beans and almonds, and it was awesome. def my favorite thing i had that night... and then there was the cheese...











lisa is in HEAVEN. all the cheese...



we had at least 8 different kinds of cheese. soft cheese, blue cheese, goat cheese, hard cheese. it was awesome. the entire time we were eating we were like 'save room for the cheese !' my favorite of the cheeses was a small very very very strong cheese that had garlic and black pepper in it. not really for everyday consumption since its kinda powerful... but darn good. another good one was one of the hard cheeses that tasted like a cross between cheddar and pecorino romano. it was also pretty delicious.

after the cheese we had the galette de roi, which is traditionally had after the Epiphany, which is jan 6. its like a king cake from new orleans, but much less gaudy. we had 2 and leslie and emily got the feves. the feve is a little trinket and can be just about anything. it can be a little jar of jam, a stormtrooper, wiseman; you name it. i think the ones we got were wisemen...














after our delicious meal and hours of talking we crammed into davids honda supermini van and headed into town. lisa was connor and erins baby for the evening, smashed btwn the two of them. what a lucky girl....