foods of the journey

the first picture....the most delicious pizza we've ever had...on a recommendation from tony on our nyc-charlotte-nashville flight...he said, you have to go to lombardi's in little italy, on the corner of mott and spring, for the first pizzaria in the united states. over a hundred years old, old coal fired oven, amazing. fresh bufalo mozzarela, tomatoes imported from italy, thin crust, homemade meatballs, fresh basil....!

the next two are our first meal in ireland, after traveling overnight and being so hungry and wandering around cork and settling on this great little cafe with one of the greatest salads we've ever had.

a huge crepe from a street-like vendor on rue moufftard, only 3euro70 for the enormous crepe with oeuf (egg) fromage (emmental cheese) salade, tomate, moutard, champingons (mushrooms) and salt and pepper....we couldn't even finish it that time, we had one another time too, and about four nutella/banana crepes, and too many pain au chocolats to count (chocolate croissants) and many baguette sandwiches....the last picture is our made it yourself picnic dinner at the gloriously grotesque (not quite, but not quite great either) hotel richard....$3 a bottle bordeaux wine (wine is so cheap in france, at our homestay right now we're drinking great bottles that are only 1 euro a bottle!), a fresh baguette, guyere cheese, and vegetables.

somehow carson, i and another one of our helpx friends here at the homestay are becoming known as "the piglets" because of how much we like to eat and snack. i'm becoming quite in love with the baguette while i'm here, i've never been one for white bread, but in france it is so good...we are eating lots of goat cheese and cantal and other french cheeses and i make salads for lunch and dinner and the bread truck comes by every day but wednesdays and honks loudly, it's a woman in a little white van, and we buy un pain and yesterday she even had chocolate croissants, which were so delicous! we discovered that peanut butter is an oddity (and sometimes even considered gross!) by europeans, at least the scottish people we're staying with, but they bought us a jar and we've been eating it on ricecakes and toast and the like. gosh i didn't prepare to write a whole post about food, but i am such a little foodie it makes perfect sense. i have not tried anything exotic here like haggis or some of the strange french pates or sausages. i am enjoying the cheeses and breads for sure though!

the moon is full, carson and leah and i just went for a walk through the quiet corn fields and tilled fields, with the fog lightly resting and the cows sleeping in their pasture. we're in france!