Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Eaux de Vie- Vins d'Alsace


"Petite France" in Strasbourg.  i came up with dozens of reasons why the area was called, "petite france," but it ended up having to do with a bout of syphilis that went around the area and the hospital was located there and....in any case, it was a far cry from romantic...


Obernai, one of the many villages in Alsace; the first village on the wine road



 the most beautiful sight of my life.  imagine, acres and acres of green ripe wonderful amazing vineyards.  

  Monsieur René told me that when the grapes start to grow that sort of sugary coating it means they are ripe for harvest.  the day we were on the tour was the first day of the harvest.  driving alongside the vineyards you could see workers in and around the area working to get as many buckets filled at possible.  when the day was over, they all gathered together and drank their vineyard's champagne to celebrate.  

My camera ran out of battery along the way, so i didnt have a chance to take pictures of the third day of our journey around the area.  Monsieur René had rented a car for the three days and on the third day we decided to go to Germany.  
We decided to go to Frieburg because we had heard it was beautiful.  The town itself was alright, I personally think we could have gone somewhere nicer, BUT all is not lost!!!  I had the MOST AMAZING meal of my life there.  We didnt think it was that special, the cafe we decided to go to, it was small, it was sort of out of the way, nothing too great.  But when we opened the menu we discovered that we had stumbled upon an Afghani restaurant.  An Afghani-German restaurant.  
OK.  Let me just describe what I ate because it was tooo good.  The chanterelle mushrooms were sauteed and mixed with a creamy dill sauce (it was amazing, because you could taste the mushrooms, the dill, and the cream--nothing was too overpowering) which was served next to a plate of thick noodles that were just slightly browned and had the perfect consistency.  not to crunchy, not to chewy, just perfect.  mmmmmmmm, my mouth is still watering. 
and then for dessert salma and I had these beautiful ice cream sundaes.  they called them blechers, i dont know what that means, but it was delicious.  

i think im going to go eat now.  i'm pretty hungry now that i think about it.  

tomorrow i'll write about some of the crazy weird things that have been happening to me in Paris.  


1 comment:

Salma S said...

sup ran. we're at nazys and nazy says it sucks that you're not here, but i didn't really notice.

lifes a becher but then there's ice cream.