Every year since before I can remember, we always have a theme day on the Friday after Thanksgiving, mainly so we can keep eating such great food. This year, our theme was "France," so we jumped on the Julia Child bandwagon and made some great beef bourguignon (unfortunately, no pictures). All together, we had a 7-course dinner - starting off with some raclette, which consists of a 2 part grill in which you melt some raclette cheese underneath the top grill, which has peppers and ham simmering on top. When everything is done, you pour the raclette on top and enjoy!
Next up, we had a green salad with cheese and bacon (blurry pictures only - perhaps too much wine already?)
No "French" dinner is complete without escargots... which we all had to try. Here they are getting all buttered up before going in the oven. You actually can buy the shells separately, and then get escargot and put them in these shells. Pretty ingenious. AND they were great. But it could have been all the butter (and Marty's special sauce...).
I'm blanking on some of the other courses (except who could forget the amazing cheese course - with about 5 types of Brie). But here are some croissants ready to go in the oven. I made these from scratch - they are really fun to do and about 100x better (read - fluffier, butterier, crispier, yummier) than the roll-up Pillsbury kind.
And for dessert, I made chocolate mousse and an almond-pear tart. The mousse was ok - the tart was phenomenal. I will definitely be making it again - and you can either make your own crust (which I did) or buy the ready-made.
The recipe can be found on David Lebovitz's blog here. It was awesome! I substituted Grand Marnier for the liquor because that is what we had - and it was still great!
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