What is this, another quote about food??? Maybe I'll talk about something else to begin with, to prove that I actually do more than eat =)
It was a very rainy weekend. But that was no deterrent for the silly American girl who decided to walk into town and go shopping anyway! Stupid American moment?? =) Maybe not: I ran out of clothing after 3 days and froze my butt off wearing short sleeves since I was out of sweaters, so I decided the trek into town was necessary and thus not stupid. Considering this is also the only month of sales, it's the perfect time to shop. However, I'm pretty much done shopping now (at least, for clothing haha). Time to save my money for meaningful souvenirs, like maybe a nice bottle of perfume, a nice wine, some gold from Italy...we'll see. Apparently Italy is known for gold - I didn't know that until recently. So time to save up =)
Sunday was pretty much spent in bed, until my friend and I decided to go the movie theater. Tickets are half-price this weekend, so we saw a French comedy called "Intouchables" (yes, that means exactly what it looks like it means). It was a really good movie, and I understood the vast majority of it, save a few parts =) Afterwards we went to a little cafe next door so that we weren't forced to eat bread and pasta again for dinner (the majority of my meals are pasta because of my lack of refrigerator). I ordered a delicious chicken, but my friend decided to be adventurous and order "bavette." Neither one of us knew what that meant, but she was brave and ordered it anyway. After just checking word reference, it means flank steak. It certainly didn't taste like Texas beef, and it didn't really look like Texas beef either. It was almost purple in color instead of red, and was way less tender and juicy. It still tasted good.
I really wanted hot chocolate, so I ordered some. It came with a little pellet of chocolate on the side, so, thinking it was maybe a candy or something, I popped it into my mouth. And ate what was basically a spoonful of cocoa powder. Brilliant, as always =) Maybe I should stop putting random things into my mouth when I don't know what they are haha.
PAUSE! I'm sure the suspense about what exactly I was referring to with my quote is killing you...well, here it is. Disclaimer: this is intense. You may need to stop reading now if you suffer from lack-of-delicious-food-itis, because the description alone may send you into digestive shock. Stop reading and seek culinary attention if at any time you experience extreme hunger, excessive mouth watering, or an intense craving for the food about to be described. I deny responsibility for any gastrointestinal effects caused by reading this blog =)
Once we saw dessert, it ceased to matter what mysterious meat and other foods we had put in our mouths. I ordered fondant au chocolat...and died. Because only in heaven can you get a dessert that tastes that fantastic. It was a chocolate cake with warm chocolate filling and a nice cream to go on top...like I said, heaven. It was mind-blowing. My stomach is so happy right now. If you ever ate at Olive Garden and ordered the little chocolate cake that they used to have before it got taken off the dessert menu, this dessert was like that, only like 100 times fresher and tastier and better. I realized while eating dessert that I eat about three times as much food here as I did in the states. And I'm still always hungry. It's slightly ridiculous, but I'm not complaining. If I can gorge myself on delicious French food and still fit into my jeans at the end of the day, well who am I to resist the needs of my poor starving stomach?? =)
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