At the restaurant

THANKSGIVING DINNER MENU

At Roseline, décembre the 14th

About the restaurant ...

First Course (select one)‎

Roasted Sierra Beauty Apple Butternut Squash

Maple Creme Fraiche, Spiced Pecans

Buttermilk Fried Quail Salad

Poached Quail Egg, Wild Mushrooms, Bacon-Creole Mustard Vinaigrette

Entree Course (select one)‎

Oven Roasted Willie Bird Turkey with Giblet Gravy,
Mashed Potatoes, Sage Cornbread Stuffing, Port-Cranberry Relish

Maple Syrup Slow Braised Beef Short Rib

with Chive Mashed Potatoes, Buttermilk Fried Onions

Crispy Skin Coho Salmon with

Lobster-Salted Fingerling Potato Hash, Tarragon Oil, Lemon Confit

Sides- $7 additional‎

White Truffle Macaroni and Cheese

Smoked Gouda, White Cheddar, Bleu Cheese

Pan Roasted Brussels Sprouts 

Caramelized Onions

Dessert (select one)‎

Apple Cobbler

Vanilla‎ Bean Ice Cream

Thanksgiving Sampler Platter

Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake

Cranberry-Pomegranate Sauce

RIVER COTTAGE

STARTERS

Tomato Soup

(A delicate creamy soup)

Smoked Cod

(Slices of cod served with brown bread and butter)

Calamari

(Pan Fried or Grilled Calamari)

MAIN DISHES

Scallopine Di Vittelo La Caverna

(Veal with fresh mushrooms and roasted peppers with a touch of cream)

Roasted Atlantic Salmon

(Pan roasted salmon with artichoke hearts, asparagus and plum tomatoes in a wine sauce)

Chicken Grana

(Dipped in parmigiano, sautéed in lemon and wine sauce)

DESSERTS

Chocolate Mousse Cake, Carrot Cake

Ricotta Cheese Cake

Tiramisu

DRINKS

Wide selection of teas and ground coffees,
Freshly-squeezed orange juice,
Variety of beers

WINE LIST

Variety of red and white wines

Booking a Table

• I'd like to reserve / book a table for a party of six at 8pm, please.
• Could we have a table by the window, please?
• Could we have a non-smoking table, please?
• Could we have a table away from the kitchen/toilets, please?
• Could we have a booth, please?
• Could you make sure it's a quiet table, please?

Arriving at the Restaurant

• Good evening, the name is Hand. I have a table booked for six.
• Do you have the menu in English/German/French ..., please?
• Do you have a high chair for young children, please?
• Could we have a table over there, please?
• I'm sorry but I asked for a table by the window.
• Could we have an extra chair, please?

Placing Your Order

• I'd like the .............., please.
• For starters I'll have the soup and for the main course I'd like the roast beef.
• Could I have chips instead of new potatoes, please?
• What is the house special today?
• Is there anything you would recommend?
• Could I see the wine menu, please?
• I'll have a bottle of the South African Cabernet Sauvignon.
• I'll have a glass of house red/white, please.
• Which wine would you recommend?

Complaining

• Excuse me, but my meal is cold.
• Excuse me, we've been waiting for over half an hour for our drinks.
• I'm sorry but I ordered the side salad not the vegetables.
• Excuse me this steak is over-done, I ordered rare.
• I'm afraid this wine tastes corked.
• Excuse me this wine isn't chilled properly.

Congratulations to our waitress of this evening, Ruth

According to the degree of cooking of the beef :

very rare  saignant (only for french people)

rare   bleu

well done bien cuit

over done (only for english people)

a few words :

chilled     rafraichi   but ... chilled to the bone  transi de froid

booth       table avec canapé

overbooked trop d'invitations

extra chair supplémentaire

side dish  accompagnement

Tea time 

 fruit juice and thin waffle made with a waffle iron ( but to waffle : parler pour ne rien dire) !for example : my wife often tells me I waffle ...

to finish with that, down the hatch and we're gone ( cul sec ....)

Chez Danielle et Maurice

Chez Danielle et Maurice, october 30th

Congratulations to Francine who is coming in despite her foot operation.

Everyone is there except Laurence too far away.

Vivien, grandson of Marcelle is the guest

                                                                                      Receiver

Landphoner

The topic this evening is a very difficult exercise, about Telephoning !

First, Ruth tell us un incredible story of tel-internet breakdown at home ...

Second, conversations between two persons :

- a friendly call from Marcelle to Francine for have a chat ... giggles (fou rire)

- a call from Roseline to Maurice for booking a few rooms the next weekend, for their couple and five grand children ...

- Vivien (his father in fact) would send his teen-aged child in Australia and want to contact the host family ...What else can I do for your breakfast ? 

- Michel cannot lend his who is broken-down and too much dirty....

Telephone terms (US/GB)

• answer                           to say "hello" into the phone when it rings
• answering machine      something that you can record as a message on if the person you                                             are calling isn't home
• busy signal                    a beeping sound that tells the caller that the other person is                                                    already on the phone with someone else 
• call                                 a telephone conversation; to telephone
• call back/phone back   to call someone who call you first
• call display                    a screen that shoes you who is calling
• cell/mobile phone         a telephone that you can take with you away from your house
• cordless phone             a phone that is not attached to the wall, for short distances at home
• dial                                to press the buttons
• dial tone                        the sound the phone makes when you pick it up
• phone book/directory  a book that alphabetically lists local phone numbers of people and                                         business 
• hang up/ring off           to put the receiver down and end a call 
• phone box/ ...              box pay phone: a place where you can pay to use the phone in publi
• receiver/handset         the piece on the phone that you speak into and listen from
• switchboard                a central system used to connect telephone calls (hotel, building ..)

Useful expressions  in a telephone conversation

• introducing yourself          Hello, this is name  Hello, name here  Hello, it's name calling
• asking to speak to sbd       Is name their, please ?   May I speak to name, please ?
• connecting someone          Just a minute, I'll get him / Please hold the line / One moment...
•  making special requests  Could you please repeat that ? Would you mind spelling that ...
•                                             Could/can you speak up a little/a little slower please ?
•                                             Can you call me / ring me back ?
•                                             I think we have a bad connection
• taking a message for..  I'm sorry, name is not here at this moment Can I ask who's calling 
•                                        Would you like to leave a message ?
•                                        S/He's busy right now. Can you call again later?
• leaving a message with ... Yes can you tell him/her name called, please
•                                             Could you ask him/her to call name when he gets in?
•                                             My number is xxxxxxx.
• finishing a conversation   Thank you for calling/ringing
•                                             I'm afraid I have to let you go now
•                                             I'll talk to you again soon. Bye.
•                                             Give me a ring when you have time

Various ...

• May I borrow your phone ? Can I use your phone, please?
• The phone is ringing. Could you pick it up please ?
• The line is busy.
• I'm afraid you've got a wrong number

Thanks Danielle and Maurice.
The cakes and the white wine was excellent !

Chez Marcelle et Maurice, le 9 octobre 2014

Autumn in Ecoust, of course. Oct 9th

Marcelle and Maurice received with a dried sausage with red wine !

Today Ruth asks everyone "not a single word" in french !

brainstorming !

News

Currently Danielle has an Australian man in her holiday cottage, with a detector who speak French but very technical; too hard to understand what he means. He loves french coffee.

Today a couple of australians came from Melbourne by London, Paris, then Turkey(to Gallipolli) One person of their family is buried at Tilloy (1914). The man is retired and his wife is secretary.

Themes 

A lot of pictures, you use the auxiliary CAN and CANNOT.

Exemple : I can drive a car but I cannot fly a plane. Then you answer another one the same way...

Look at these

Words ans sentences

dizzy        vertiges  I'm dizzy

recorder    flute non traversière

lawn mower  tondeuse

sparkplug  bougie de moteur

sparkplug wrench clé à bougie

the means to an end les moyens pour arriver au but

Bicycle

Basketball

Car mechanic / repair the car engine

Play Cards

Dive

A leaking Tap or Faucet

Repair a flat tyre (tire)

Play the Flute (or recorder if not trav.)

Golf

Play the Guitar

Ice-skate

Fly a Kite (The kites runners of Kaboul)

Open Oysters

Paint

Play the Piano

Table tennis

Roller-skate

Row a boat

Ski

Speak german

Stand on my hands or head

Surfboard

Swim

Tango dance

Tennis

Weightlifting

Dried sausage !

Recipe
 150g mix hazelnut, 12 Pim's biscuits in quarters, 125g black chocolate, 50g butter, 100g white dry grapes, confectioner's sugar (glace)

Sept 4th. Francine and Michel

1) Let's go for a walk in Hyde Park

Hyde Park

By the lake

Look at ...

The boat, a dog beige or tan with a short tail, and another black tied to the bench (tenu en laisse)

A horse brown  and a second hidden (caché) . Horse back rider, (cavalier)

A girl with a green skirt (jupe)

Some deckchairs (chaise longue), a trash bin (poubelle), bags, not backpack (sac à dos)

A policeman (or bobby) with a helmet (casque)

A few persons in sunbathing (bain de soleil), a man speaking close to a tree

A girl riding a bicycle, red-haired (rousse)

Generally rather young persons but two women on a bench wearing old fashioned hats

(dans l'ensemble gens plutôt jeunes mais 2 dames sur un banc portant des chapeaux démodés)

2) Idioms

Danielle is full of beans, but she isn’t nuts.(pleine d'énergie, pas folle)

Maurice is always pulling someone’s leg.(blagueur)

Marcelle says she is all thumbs when she covers books (maladroite pour recouvrir livres)

But Francine can do it with her arms tied behind her back. (fort adroite, les doigts ds le nez! )

Michel says, “My foot!” He has other fish to fry now that he is the mayor. (d'autres chats à fouetter)

I won’t beat around the bush. (tourner autour du pot) I can smell a rat (il y a du louche)

X is as nutty as a fruitcake (fou, givré comme pas deux)

He/she has bats in the belfry (il/elle est folle.... des araignées au plafond)

their new house costs an arm and a leg ( leur nouvelle maison coute très cher) ; they’re paying through the nose (endetté jusqu'au cou)

to take French leave (filer à l'anglaise)

to have a frog in one’s throat (avoir un chat ds la gorge)

to kick the bucket (mort)

to push up daisies (id)

3) des mots issus ... ou le paraissant !

- de l'anglais : 

camping   camp ground

jogging     track suit

parking     car park, parking lot

- du français :

souvent culinaire ....when cooked

prune     prune (plum) 

veal       veau  (calf)
mutton   mouton (sheep)

TEA TIME

Thank you Francine for that delicious far breton served with a local cider

You enjoyed your Brittany hiking on the GR 34! 

 

See you later ...