Lessons...

Lessons can be fun. Frenchie is teaching me plenty! There are so many that it is hard to decide which one I would like to share. I think I would like to share an evening that we had last week. This will get around to food, in a very roundabout way! Last Thursday night my son was competing in the school district's Spell Bowl. This was a huge honor and we were sooooo proud of him! He is so smart, but sometimes I have to wonder if spelling is his thing! HeeHee! His spelling partner was a very good friend of his who is an excellent speller. They were given 5 words, and the audience doesn't know which one of them misses which word. At the end of their 5 words I knew that one of them had missed the word "beet". I totally figured it was my son... but come to find out, he got them all right!!!!!! That's my boy!!!! Ok, I have bragged enough! Back to the subject. This night I had not really planned dinner. There were 2 crabcakes left over from the night before. So Frenchie and I put together a wonderful salad and she was going to eat the 2 crabcakes. Yum! Afterward she says to me... Do you want to learn how we eat cheese in France? "Ummmm... Do bears poop in the woods????" I want to learn everything about French foods! Especially if it has to do with cheese! So she takes a loaf of sourdough bread and slices 2 pieces... Asks me what kind of cheese I want to use.... and takes me on an incredible journey. She is doing hers with blue cheese and I am having camembert. I take the camembert and start to put it in the microwave to soften it a bit. She yells "what are you doing? NO!" She slices thin slivers and puts them on the bread. She spreads the blue cheese on her bread. Tells me that it is actually bad manners to spread it on the bread, but for our purposes, this is what she does. We then stand around the chopping block, eating our cheese. Loving it, eyes rolling into our heads, enjoying! I have 3 1/2 more months to learn sooooo much!!!! LOVE IT!