Snow Trippin: Mucho fromage

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Mucho fromage

Being our day off we made plans to ski with Alex et al. After some full on kilometres coverage we squeezed in a little apre ski before a quick shower and then out for a very rare, no in fact our very first meal out. From previous visits Princie recalled a great little restaurant just off the high street. Our first proper french meal out for me and Fe, shocking really since we had been here almost 2 months. Obviously the chalet host wages don't permit too much Frenchy style eating out!

We booked a table at Le Casserole with everyone opting for the snails for starters, well why wouldn't ya? These little buggers were fantastic if a little tricky to grab with that little fork and a pair of reverse action pliers!! Wonder if the ones on our allotment would taste this good with a splash of the old garlic butter? Hmmm a thought for the future maybe. For main it had to be, the full cheese feast. Tartaflette for me and Fe and raclette for Alex and Nathan. Raclette is a typical mountain dish, a block of cheese that is heated by a special machine and you then scrape onto your plates. The term raclette derives from the French word raclette, meaning "to scrape". There was going to be some serious cheese sweats and crazy dreams going on later. All washed down with copious bottles of delicious local vin rouge.

Whilst the girls headed for home (it was a school night) the boys decided to hit he bars. All I know is that a podium was involved with mucho dancing and the return to home eventually at 4am. Without a shadow of a doubt the best night of the season so far.

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Tales from a dining table.....

The thing is, Muslims, well, they all love a bacon sandwich really.... A 'red run' well, I thought it was more like a blue. ya'de, ya'de, ya'de... You two are great, fantastic, but this lot, well, we will be writing to ATOL without a doubt.... If you two ever open a restaurant, B&B or hotel, please, let us know as we will definitely come to dine / stay ....... Here's ya, our card, do stay in touch..... Right, Ja'smine, our daughter. Do not on any count buy her any cigarettes if she asks as she is only 13 but she smokes like a train when given the chance.... Do you think my fake English ID will work in town if I try and buy some cigarettes.... Please let me make this clear. This isn't directed at you two. But you will be hearing from my lawyers.... I only told you to come back if you could sort all I asked of you.... Do you have any coke or sprite as the kids do not drink water...... It's upstairs, somewhere. Try looking in the Louis vuitton, Cartier or Gucci wash bags.... Oh no I can't eat soft cheese as I'm pregnant. Oh Dave or Fe is there any more beers as while these lot polish off the cheese I'll pop up out for smoke and a cheeky beer prior to coffee...... In the future we are just going to self design and build as even when we spent 8 million we were still having to put up with other peoples ghastly interior tastes..... Back in our day, well, things were all very different.... You know you mentioned the 'blue bus service'' is the one to use to come up the hill if not skiing back to the chalet. Well, we sat at the stop for a good 40 mins and the only buses that went past were white ones so in the end we just walked.... So, do you get to do much skiing then or have you just purely come out to cook and clean up for 6 months solid .... Oh, oven roasted cod on a bed of 'lemons', parsley butter drizzled with white wine. Can I have some sliced lemon with that.....