Month: December 2012
Our Christmas dinner 2012
This year we are having Christmas dinner at home by ourselves and outsourced most of the preparations. Simple! Starters: smoked salmon, foie gras & lentils, salade noël (really just mixed greens with star-shaped cut carrots). Lobster ravioli in squid ink pasta, champagne cream sauce Roasted veal tenderloin (rosemary, shallot), gratin dauphinois, carrots in maple-syrup, saute…
Les Trois Dômes, Sofitel Bellecour, Lyon
Lyon is well known for food. On our visit during the weekend of the Fête des Lumière, Sue booked for the four of us a table for lunch at Les Trois Dômes in the Sofitel Bellecour. This restaurant received one michelin star – according to viamichelin: This is how the hotel describes itself online. “Drift into…
Fête des Lumières 2012: Place des Terreaux, Lyon
Over the weekend of Dec 8-9, we went to Lyon for the annual Fête des Lumières. The Festival of Lights is a uniquely Lyonnaise tradition which requires that every house place candles along the outsides of all the windows. Dating from 1643, it was meant to be a tribute to Mary if Lyon was spared of the plague. The light…
Le “Bouchon” Weekend in Lyon
The word “Bouchon” in French has several popular meanings. Looking it up in Larousse, the word bouchon means, among other things, a “plug” (1. Objet qui, réalisé en diverses matières (bois, liège, plastique, métal, caoutchouc, etc.), sert à clore un contenant), and a “traffic jam” (2. Accumulation de véhicules qui gêne la circulation ; embouteillage), etc.; and…