French Weekend

This weekend I've had the pleasure to spend a lot of time with French friends. Thursday evening it was wine, foie gras, terrine and tiny duck sausages. All very good. I cannot remember the name of the white wine, but it was very sweet. The red was Châteauneuf-du-Pape. On Friday we had a small barbeque of sausages despite the rain, more wine, baguette, French moustard, cheese and salami.

Saturday we went to the city center, first some blonde Belgian beer in Porterhouse and then dinner in Da Pino, Parliament Str. It was a very nice, lovely little restaurant. I had bruchetta for starters, so did the guys. And a strawberry daquiri too. Then green pasta with a creamy salmon sauce. So good! To finish all off I had an after-dinner cocktail called Japanese Sleeper.

The rest of the evening was spent back in the Porterhouse with Belgian raspberry beer Floris ..finally got my raspberry. The guys had "proper" beers. On Sunday afternoon our culinary weekend ended in Burger King. But even so, they do make nice frites.

The Irish weather favoured us too, in a way. Ok, for mid-July it was not the best, but at least the only heavy rain fall was on Sunday. Which in Dublin, is pretty good.

There's no photos at all from the entire weekend, sorry.. Only great memories. :)