The year is ending with grace and joy, I am very proud to announce you the birth of LOELIE (Lina's sister), and so my little niece. She is just incredibly beautiful, I am already in love with her.
CONGRATULATIONS to my brother and sister in law!!!!
Christmas day is now 12 days from now, I finally decided to post some pics of my tree. This year I will be celebrating Christmas eve at my parent's place and the day at Arno's parents place with his cousins.
Christmas is coming soon and in France, it is a tradition and a pleasure to taste the Foie Gras. And every french knows that it's better to make your own. The only thing is to get the best recipe, there is different ways to prepare the Foie gras and I really wanted to get the easiest and most tasty one. That is why I visited a friend of Françoise: Georges.
He was very quiet to welcome us to his home to prepare the Foie Gras, it was actually very easy and fast to prepare.
Here is the recipe:
Get a nice Foie Gras origin France important!!
Get gently the nerves off the Foie gras a way that does not destroy it.
Clean the jars in glass with boiling water.
Mix:
1/2 Coffee spoon of pepper
1 Coffee spoon of salt
5 to 6 coffee spoon of Cognac or Armagnac
Disperse this mix on each side of the Foie Gras
Pour the Foie gras in the jar and press well
Close the jar and reserve it in the fridge for 2 hours.
Cook the Foie gras in a Cocotte minute. As soon as you ear the cocotte whistle, switch off the gaze and leave the cocotte under pressure for 30 minutes.
Then open the cocotte and let it cool off.
Thank you Georges for the teaching!!
ENJOY!!!!
Last sunday, we went for a little hike in the Chartreuse. We parked at the Col du Coq and took the direction of St Hugues de Chartreuse. After 2H walking first in the fog, we arrived at the top with a sunny and warm weather at the Roc D'Arguille (1768m).
We had some snow a few weeks ago and it has not all melted wet. This added a little spice in this hike and this beatiful pics.
This past Monday and Tuesday, I was in the south of Germany, in the town called Mainz. No I was not enjoying some vacation time but very mostly working (I know It is not correct English, but I would really like to insist on that point).
My big boss, my direct boss and I had a meeting for our European project.
For the most of it, I spend my day listening to the different teams coming from all over Europe talking about our project. This was interesting but when you are just a research assistant you don't get to have your words on simply anything. Well, at least it's what I felt like, even if some of them seems very nice.
Of course, we are not the ones deciding whether or not things should be done, but come on, it's not because we are doing the technical work that means that we have no brains.
Pass on that, I was looking for the visit of Mainz, on Tuesday all the teams were supposed to go for an hour tour of the city, that would have been a great break from all this listening, thinking, and work analysis. But instead, we took the train to get to the airport and wait for more than 3 hours there.
I'll just say frustration got to be!! So even if I told myself, that it could have been worse, I could have not been there at all, I was still disappointed by all of this.
Monday night, while we were going to dinner, I got my camera and sneaked out of the group to take a few pics quickly. So this is Mainz by night. Unfortunately, I can not tell you what is those place since we did not made the tour.
After waiting almost all summer time, it was finally our time to get some rest and have a long break from work, usual life and stress. It was time for us to move out of Grenoble for an exiting place:
Dominican Republic
More precisely, the village of Boca Chica at Dominican Bay resort. This village is located on the coast, in the south of Dominican republic, 1 hour driving distance from the Santo Domingo. The average annual temperature is 79°F, let's just say we had most of the time a wonderful and very sunny weather.
During this vacation time, we took some organized tours and went by ourselves to Santo Domingo.
Welcome to paradise!!!!!
Our beach in Boca Chica, the mangrove on the back
Selling fruit and fish on the beach
Expedition to Santo Domingo
Taking the local bus called the guagua with our friends Amandine, Alex, Loulou and Mauris, direction Santo Domingo.
Sugar can seller
The colonial center of Santo Domingo
The church hosting a part of the remains of Christopher Colomb
Memorial of Christopher Colomb
Conventional electricity alimentation in the street of SD
Having a typical Dominican lunch, grilled meat, rice and potatoes
Jeep Safari, immersion in the real Dominican life
Market in a little town, in the country side of Dominican Republic
The country side
Little Dominican girl running after our bus, so cute
Great swim and break in the cascade
Having coconut milk
After going back to the ranch, we had a typical lunch and tasted the MAMAJUANA, the Dominican viagra, it's a a mix of wine, rum and honey
Demonstrating how to roll a cigar
Typical inside house of local people
Having desert: pineapple, coconut, sweet lemon and pure homemade grilled cacao seeds
Visiting the sugar can fields
Tasting sugar can
SAFARI!!!!!!!!
The day is ending, it's 7pm, we had a wonderful time
SAONA ISLAND
Saona Island or Isla Saona is a island located a short distance from the mainland on the south-east tip of the Dominican republic, It is a government protected nature reserve. With an area of 42 sq miles (110 sq km) Saona is the largest Dominican offshore island and forms part of the National Park of the East (Parque Nacional del Este).
Star fish encounter
CATALINA Island
Another paradise island for snorkeling...
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