30 July 2010 - ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

O doesn't like his own birthday parties.

So I decided to organize a simple, private birthday party for him :)

O with raspberry cheesecake.

¡¡¡¡¡Feliz Cumpleaños, O!!!!!

pâtes au beurre et à la sauge

I think this is the simplest pasta recipe I know - you even don't need any special ingredient and there's no trick to learn before you start; however, it really does taste good! (as long as you don't dislike sage)

Ingredients (1 serving) :

• pasta (spaghetti or linguine. ravioli would be also good)
• 1 Tbsp of butter
• 2 or 3 sauge ('sage' in English) leaves (finely chopped) : I used dried chopped sage instead
• bouillon for pasta (if not, olive oil and salt, for cooking pasta)
• grated parmesan cheese

I use 100g of pasta for one serving.

while your pasta is being ready...

prepare one Tbsp of butter,

once the pasta is ready, before you drain, keep a little bit of pasta water for later,

In a casserole, put butter,

and sage,

then cook them for 2 minutes (medium heat)

until you can smell the delicious scent of butter and sage.

Put the pasta into the butter/sage sauce, stir them quickly,

and add some pasta water to thin the sauce.

That's it!

24 July 2010 - a package from Korea

We were not expecting anybody on last Saturday, so when someone rang the doorbell, we were wondering whom it can be. When we saw a postman holding a big package from Korea, we were really excited to receive a nice surprise. My friend YK has sent us a wonderful collection of Korean goodies!!

For a few seconds, this package made me believe it has popsicles inside... haha

There were Pad Thai sauce and Japanese Soba sauce inside!

and some cosmetics!

plus, a Korean magazine and a book about Kimchi for O! :D

Thank you so much YK!!!!! :D You're so sweet!!!

21 juillet 2010

The weather here is getting worse and worse, I cannot leave the shutters open because the sun is attacking my house. (That's why this picture looks a bit dark)

• 16 rolls of toilet paper
• 1L of cranberry juice light
• 12 bars of mini-sorbet
• 10 bottles of Actimel
• 1 can of Café Lavazza Club
• 1 carton of Pro-Active margarine
• 1 bag of Tortillas Maïs
• 2 packs of lardon (low sodium, 25% less)
• 6 organic eggs
• 3 packs of crème liquide
• paper table napkins
• 2 bags of riz rond (round rice)
• 15 trash bags (10L)
• 20 trash bags (30L)

Overall 44.45 Euros

VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein, Deutschland - 2010.07.17

G and H invited us on a daytrip to Fondation Beyeler in Basel, so, of course, we happily joined them on Saturday. On the way to Fondation Beyeler, right after we crossed the border between France and Germany (yes, we're going to Basel (Switzerland), but we went through Germany), we came across a very interesting looking building and decided to visit there on the way back home. This building is called 'VitraHaus' and is a part of Vitra Design Campus.

Unfortunately, they closes at 6:00pm (and we arrived at 5:45pm).

So we had no choice but visiting 'Vitra Design Museum Shop' only.

Around this building (VitraHaus), there're other 'Vitra Design Campus' buildings as well.

They all look different and interesting.

This is Vitra Design Museum Shop.

I really wish we can visit here again so we can go inside as well.

14 July 2010 - le quatorze juillet

Le quatorze juillet (July 14, Le Fête Nationale), which is Bastille Day in English, is one of the most important national holidays in France. I know not much about French history, but as far as I know, the day when angry crowd stormed into Bastille prison was the 14th of July in 1789... am I right?

So, every year on this day in France, they do many interesting things, like parades on Champs-Elysées (and you can watch it on TV, if you wake up early enough - well, not really early early, but considering it's a bank holiday, you tend to sleep until late morning, right?) or French president and First Lady (this year, you could see beautiful Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, O couldn't take his eyes off TV screen) waving their hands... Well, but the crème de la crème of Bastille Day is the fireworks (feu d'artifice in French). They say the fireworks in Paris is superb (I've never seen it yet), but most of French cities also do fireworks on July 13 or July 14. The town where we live did beautiful fireworks on July 13 from 10:30PM.

The town was already crowded (at 8:00 PM)
We had dinner at the Italian restaurant in vieille ville,
and the fireworks was beginning when we finished dinner.

We began to run to have a better view.

run!!!

We met G and H in this big crowd!! :D

12 juillet 2010

The weather is too warm to do anything. I even don't want to be next to my computer! Monoprix is one of the coolest (I mean, temperature-wise) places to hang around in town, so we did some grocery shopping on Saturday (yup, this picture is three days old already).

• 2 packs of lardon (low sodium, 25% less)
• a bag of salad
• 6 organic eggs
• 6 bottles of Actimel
• a ball of mozzarella
• 1L of cranberry juice light
• 3 cans of corn
• Scotch packaging tape
• 3 packs of Onglet (what's Onglet in English? it's a beef part...)
• 3 packs of crème liquide
• 2 boxes of spaghetti n°5
• a can of Lavazza coffee
• liquid hand soap
• a jar of mayonnaise
• a bag of 20 mini mozzarella

Hello!

Many of my friends don't speak Korean (at all). So, I decided to open another blog of 'une vie française' in version anglaise. Hope you enjoy! :)

+ I don't think I'll translate all the previous postings I did on my Korean blog - I already did more than 100 postings there and, yes, translating all of them will take forever.