Food
Barbeque
Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 11:40 | categories: Food
The past few days have consisted of getting meat brown, first on the beach and then on the grill as we’ve officially opened the barbeque season at the American dude’s place. Technically everyone should be reading for the upcoming exams next week, but only boring people do that. The exams shouldn’t be that hard anyway–I hope.
Not much more to tell for now, so here’s some pics!
The host
Entrecôte
The hostess and a Norwegian dude
Culinary experimentation
Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at 12:19 | categories: Antibes, Food
Yesterday we had an international potluck party, where everyone brought food from their native countries. The night was a success and in the end almost 20 people came to enjoy the culinary wonders of the world. We had poutine from Quebec, spicy chicken from China, sweet pierogies from Poland and loads of other stuff. For some strange reason the Americans made a salad with vegetables and stuff. Who would’ve thought, huh? I made meatballs.
Weather-wise the day was awesome. I took a 2-hour stroll in old Antibes and took some pics. The local people had even left their winter coats home, which must be a sure sign of temperatures higher than 20C. Well, since I’m already chatting about the weather, I guess that’s all for now!
Just the basic afternoon stroll scenery
Meatballs
Dudes making stuff
Dinner at the Mexicans’
Sunday, March 13th, 2011 at 17:12 | categories: Food
Yesterday I was invited to a dinner at the Mexicans’ place. Well, we call it the Mexicans’ place, since 5 4 of the 7 people living there are from the land of Tequila, while the other two three are from Colombia, Italy and Finland. I can’t even imagine how the transformation from tranquility, zen and quietness to a full-on latin crazyness must’ve been for the Finnish dude.
The hostess of the night was the Italian girl, who cooked us a tasty southern-style lasagna and a chocolate dessert to die for. Since everyone brought wine with them, we ended up tasting quite a few. We also played a couple of different drinking games, such as Kings, where all the cards have a different function (5 – guys drink, 6 – chicks drink etc.). Some people continued to a salsa bar, but I didn’t feel the urge to shake it, and sneaked back home.
The hostess and the lasagna
Mmm, chocolate
People
This week I’ve been mostly eating baguette
Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 17:41 | categories: Food
When thinking about France one of the first things that usually pops in one’s head is baguettes. Prior to coming here I knew that the French eat a lot of them, but I never realized just how much they in fact consume these fallic symbols of all things tasty. While being in a regular supermarket, the shelf of baguettes will most likely be emptied and filled, all that while you’re doing your everyday shopping. A normal ~60 cm baguette will cost anywhere from 40 cents to 1,20€ depending on whether you buy it from an artisan boulangerie or a regular supermarket.
There’s really no way to avoid baguettes here: if you order a sandwich or a panini here, you’ll get a baguette filled with stuff. Even hot dogs are just baguettes with a sausage. If you watch people coming out of shops, they will most likely carry one or two baguettes with them. Like them or not, you will end up eating baguettes in France.
Bread shelf running low on baguettes
Italy? Why not!
Saturday, February 5th, 2011 at 23:50 | categories: Food, Travel
After a night of moderate drinking at the local Irish pub, we decided to head out to Italy on an hours notice today afternoon with a couple of people. The town of choice was Ventimiglia, or Ventimille as the French say, which is the closest Italian town from Antibes by train. You can get there in 1,5h and it will set you back less than 15€ if you’re under 26 years old–or 0€ if you’re willing to hang out in the toilet, as one of us did. I’m not pointing any fingers but it was the American dude.
Ventimiglia is a town divided by a river, the old parts are mainly on one side, the new on the other. The interesting thing about the medieval parts of town is that they’re actually inhabited by the local people rather than utilized for tourist use with expensive restaurants and shops. You can see the laundry being dried outside the windows and people peeking out the windows.
We mostly just wandered around the city without any agenda trying to find the best spots for pictures and views. After dark we found a decent looking restaurant and decided to go there, but they didn’t let us in before 7pm, so we had to wait for 20 minutes outside. That’s how they do it here in the south. The wait was creative, though, and I got a couple of cool pics.
Waves in Ventimiglia
North American people
The streets of Italy
Ventimiglia by night
The thinking man's pose
The Italians know how to make a pasta dish
