Weekend at school and the Versailles market

Saturday was a normal school day , not so bad with first a practical starting 12.30h where we made the Chicken recipe from Gaston Gerard, this is a typical Burgundy recipe with Dyon mustard and Comté cheese. We made it with herb blinis.
After pratical demonstratio where chef Thivet made as a starter: Chicken salad with apples and mustard. For main dish: Stuffed sea bream fillet (dorade) wrapped in lettuce leaves, and as desert: Mirliton with apricots and rosemary. 18.00 we were done.

Chicken salad

Sea bream

Mirliton

Hiroshi wants fish

Nancy helping chef Thivet

 Celebrating an intensive week we first went for a beer with the guys at "Le Commerce" . It was a good week and we evaluated the first week. As you can see below we had fun. André, a very nice guy from Brasil invitd all of us over for a drink at his house, but as i had already promised to go to have dinner with Audrey, Satoka and Nancy (yes, dinner with 3 women), i could unfortunately not go to André's place. Ilse had planned to join as well, but as her neighbours had a party going on until 6.00h am. she had not slept very much last night, so she was desperate to goo early to bed. Dinner was al Hez Janou, http://www.chezjanou.com/ , a very nice but small bistro near place de la bastille. Audrey was sure that no reservations were needed, but that was not the case anymore. There were no seats left, fully booked, but as we suggested we might eat outside, they still made a reservation for us. Incredable, 19th of November: eating outside, it was a very nice evening.
Nancy got completely lost so she joined about an hour later. Nancy and I had a risotto made from grains with scallops. We both agrees the recipe would hav been much better with normal risotto as the grain risotto overpowered the delicate taste of the excellent made scallops. Audrey and Satoko had duck breast with rosemary sauce. Excellent dish with an amazing sauce. Unfortunately both duck breasts were burned outside, but inside they were nice red to pink. (Why not use the Oven i woudl suggest to the chef???).
As Audrey lives literaly around the corner, we travelled home together and i was home round 1.00h, not too bad. I wonder how the rest did at André's.

The guys at "Le Commerce"

Sunday i was awake early as usual. Juliëtte has a problem with her computer so i wrote long e-mail with instructions how to solve it. In the evening i found out it was her i-pad, so i could have saved my time on the solution i thought out at 7.00 am. First to the market at Dupleix. Grabbed a baguette and than straight to Versailles to go to Notre dame market. I was there round 11.00h. Nice market  with lots of local produce.

At the market i bought myself a picknick (baguette, chorizo and water (€ 2,75 all together) to eat in the gardens of chateau de Versailles. It was a wondefull day, full of sunshine, bleu sky. I was in a good mood so i decided to WALK to le grand Trianon, the palace of Marie-Antoinette. What a mistake that was. It is a far too long walk for a guy with a walking limitation like me and if you have seen chateau Versailles before, disappointing. Luckily i can get in for free, using my magic card. The walk literaly killed my feet, so had to take the train back. I stumbled over the doorstep of my appartement 16.30h and went straight to bed to give my feet some rest. By 18.30h i was recoverd , made dinner (a chinese version of the chicken i took from practise, without the cheese ofcourse), it was very good, but simple aacording to LCb standards. Evening doing my homework for school. To bed 1.15h as i have to wake up 6.45h.