We had a nice Easter! We missed our family, and our family of friends but we had a nice day!
We tried to go out for a nice long walk in the morning, but it was pretty
chilly, and unbelievably windy!!! It was a mistral with no rain! The winds are much like our
Santa Ana winds, but they get mistral winds more often than we get Santa Ana's.
We wound up going out for about an hour walk later in the day when it was a bit warmer, and a little less windy!
I finished my first book yesterday, and cooked.I went out and bought a small crown roast
of lamb at the Marché in town on Friday! The oven is a bit of a crap shoot!!!
I can handle the C to F conversion,...the web has everything!...
BUT, the oven has three ways to change the settings...and
even though you know one setting, when you change another, it can change EVERYTHING!
Anyway...through the luck of the Easter Bunny, we succeeded! The roast was perfect!
We had white asparagus, broccoli, and oven roasted potatoes....later we had 2 small
desserts, and only ate 1/2 of each...one was an apricot tart, and the other was what I
have seen called a Napoleon, in the States. (More about the white asparagus will be in
the Blog!) The lamb and white asparagus were a bit expensive, but the rest of the food
is embarrassingly inexpensive! We'll have another dinner from the same tonight, and
probably soup from the bones, and extra cuttings, later this week.
We had bought a chocolate hen for Easter, filled with little chocolates from the special CHOCOLATIER
in Uzes, and, although pricey, we both felt, it was worth the price!
I also had a bit of fun walking around town, and putting out little foil wrapped chocolate
Easter eggs! They were all gone by the end of the day!
We were surprised by the fact that the church bells continued to ring on Friday and Saturday...we
had read that that would not happen...I guess the French are outgrowing the tradition!
Also, the little supermarket, Carefour was open until noon on Sunday! We were shocked, and had
stocked up on everything possible, beforehand!
Hope you all had a wonderful Easter filled with family, fun, and chocolate!
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