Easter 2014

Easter is just one cool holiday.  We celebrate Jesus rising up from the grave, there's awesome music at mass, we eat ridiculous amounts of food, and we hang out with family.  What's not to love about that?  Nothing, I tell you, nothing...except for maybe double negatives.

As I was in Saumur visiting my friend Allison for Easter weekend, I wasn't able to go to my "regular" church, although nothing has been regular about my weekend schedule this year, so that was no big deal.  We found a church which had a nice mass. I missed "Jesus Christ is Risen Today", but whatcha gonna do, kids?

And then our friend Rebecca, who is also an American teaching English in France for the year, had us over for a ridiculously delicious brunch.  Get your droolers ready.

Rebecca made this unreal quiche filled with zucchini, lardons (look it up if you don't know what it is..definitely worth your time), and comté (yummy, gooey cheese).  With it, she served fresh green beans (bought at the Saumur outdoor market) covered in garlic and almonds.  SO GOOD.

With it, we had a nice magnum (double bottle) of bubbly that we purchased on a tour and tasting at a wine cave the day before.  As champagne (but we can't call it that because it is technically from Champage...whatever..) is a specialty of Saumur, it was both highly appropriate and highly delicious.  And because we're goofs, we had a couple photo shoots with the bottle.

Who needs men when you have a bottle of bubbly?

France has really changed me.

Note: bottle is empty.

And if that wasn't already delicious enough, Rebecca made crêpes from scratch with a homemade salted caramel sauce that tasted almost too good for human consumption...almost.  We were all just eating the sauce out of the pan afterwards.  It was too good to resist.

Topped with strawberries and happiness.

I know I've said this a few times, but I'm always hesitant around holidays here.  Without family, it can be a little hard to not be bummed out on missing all the fun.  However, this weekend was a total success, and I can say with all my heart that I had a wonderful Easter weekend.  Thanks to all my friends for keeping it real and delicious with me.

Lovesies,

Angie

PS - Rebecca cooked this whole meal in her little French apartment kitchen. Mad props, girl.