Holiday Catch-up

As you may have noticed that there are large gaps in my blog for February, I shall attempt to fill them in here...

Saturday 5th February

A long day of working hard followed by packing for snowboarding. Our flight was an early one which meant that we had arranged to stay near the airport the night before. We ate before we went up, as there was not an awful lot left in the fridge we had a pick and mix from the freezer consisting of potato waffles, veggie sausages, veggie burgers and baked beans.

Sunday 6th February

A ridiculously early start this morning, the alarm went off at 4am followed by a long day of travelling by plane and coach. We arrived in the French Alps at around 3pm to be welcomed by a lemon drizzle cake and a fresh French baguette. Although it felt as though we hadn't stopped eating all day these were soon demolished. Our lovely chalet host, Ollie, then started our foodie week as he meant to go on. He was single handedly catering for ten adults, two of which were vegetarian, and two small children. His day consisted of nothing but cooking for us! Anyway, our first evening meal started with some fizz and canapés. Unfortunately for the vegetarians the canapés were cucumber sticks with plum sauce wrapped in soft flour tortillas, the meaty ones had duck in them. These were more successfully followed with home made (and delicious) carrot and coriander soup. The veggie main was the most mouth-watering mushroom stew served with creamy, mustard mash and honeyed carrots. For dessert we had equally mouth-watering dark chocolate and orange mousses.

I think I'll catch up with my more boring every day blogs and add to this when I can....

Monday 7th February
Monday's starter was goats' cheese bruschetta with rocket salad and a balsamic dressing. Mouth-watering. I could smell the balsamic vinegar beginning to reduce down as I left for the slopes that morning. The main was a creamy pasta with pesto and roasted veg accompanied by a stuffed tomato. All was delicious of course and to finish we had a pear sponge with creme anglais.

I can't remember what cake it was on the Monday, it might come back to me.

Tuesday 8th February
We were greeted from the slopes once more with a baguette, butter and conserves and the best cake of the week I think, a chocolate and orange cake with chocolate icing on top. Dinner was home made tomato soup followed by a pepper stuffed with mushrooms and goat's cheese with roasted courgettes on the side. The dessert was a melt in the mouth baguette and butter pudding again served with creme anglaise.