1.) DParker - 05/22/2013

...you do have to give them their props for one thing: Those cheese-eating surrender monkeys know how to cook (Swampy's emotion-scarring experience with a poorly sauced rabbit notwithstanding). The missus and I celebrated our 25th anniversary last night by dining at our favorite French eatery in Dallas. The place, including its menu, has not changed in any way - that we can detect - for the past 20 years. We've both been doing a pretty good job lately of eating more sensibly, so we decided to reward ourselves by splurging for one meal by spending a stupid amount of money on eating an obscene amount of fancy-schmancy rich food. For just the two of us the meal consisted of a bottle of wine and four foood courses:

[INDENT][B][U]Wine[/U][/B]

[INDENT]Sterling Vineyards Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc, 2010[/INDENT]

[B][U]Appetizers[/U][/B]

[INDENT]Escargots (smothered in a garlic butter cream sauce)
Champagne Truffle Mousse Pâte (w/apple, raisins, garlic toast orange slices, grapes, etc...a complicated appetizer)[/INDENT]

[B][U]Soup[/U][/B]

[INDENT]Champagne Brie x 2 (the wife lives for this stuff)[/INDENT]

[B][U]Entrées[/U][/B]

[INDENT]Wife: [I]Coquille St. Jaques Sauté[/I] (scallops & cous-cous)
Me: [I]Crevettes, Coquille St. Jaques Sauté et Écrevisse[/I] (prawns, scallops, crawfish & farfalle pasta)[/INDENT]

[B][U]Dessert[/U][/B]

[INDENT]Wife: Gran Marnier Soufflé
Me: Chocolate Soufflé[/INDENT][/INDENT]

By the time dessert came out we were having to force ourselves to eat it (in fact my wife took half of hers home). But the deal with souffles is that you have to order them when (or before) the entree comes out because they take so long to make, so you're precommitted to dessert when you go that route. When I recovered from the bill-induced shock and we finally waddled out I felt like this guy...



I shouldn't eat anything for the next 2 days. But I will anyway.

2.) bluecat - 05/22/2013

No french fries?

3.) DParker - 05/22/2013

[QUOTE=bluecat;6175]No french fries?[/QUOTE]

No French toast either.

4.) bluecat - 05/22/2013

None of the food I eat ever involves the use of these symbols {`, ^, -}

5.) luv2bowhunt - 05/22/2013

Good times. We do that once a year or so too.

Dessert is rare for us, just can't do it justice when I'm stuffed.

And you expect me to believe Swampy eats at upscale restaurants? Please. I know how cheap he is, still using equipment from the 80's.:wink

6.) DParker - 05/22/2013

[QUOTE=bluecat;6177]None of the food I eat ever involves the use of these symbols {`, ^, -}[/QUOTE]

Pĥìļîšţïņĕ.

[QUOTE=luv2bowhunt;6178]Good times. We do that once a year or so too.

Dessert is rare for us, just can't do it justice when I'm stuffed.

And you expect me to believe Swampy eats at upscale restaurants? Please. I know how cheap he is, still using equipment from the 80's.:wink[/QUOTE]

Well...he never actually said that it happened in a restaurant, so I suppose it could have been just him and Jacques Pépin sitting around a campfire cooking up the day's kill. Those Frenchies can do amazing stuff even with nothing more than a cast iron skillet and an open flame to work with.

7.) Swamp Fox - 05/22/2013

LOL...It was in a restaurant, in a froggy section of Belgium. Someone else was paying, naturally. :wink I'm going to report that I have never set foot in France. However, French food is apparently like the creeping crud, and almost overwhelmed the experience of excellent Belgian beer and friendly Belgian girls with OUTRAAAGEOUS accents...

:wink

:-)

ALMOST being the key word... :grin:

8.) Swamp Fox - 05/23/2013

Pomme frites!

:tu:

9.) Swamp Fox - 05/23/2013

Freedom fries!

:tu::tu:

LOL

10.) Swamp Fox - 05/23/2013

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;6182]Pomme frites!

:tu:[/QUOTE]


(This is a trap for GoBucks, so evwyone be vewwwy, vewwwy qwiet....)



:shh:

11.) Triton Rich - 05/23/2013

[B]Happy Anniversary and congratulations on 25 years! My Wife and I had an outing like that for my Birthday this year. We went to a fancy steak place in Chicago and ate more food than a person ever should. I swear I was still full when I woke up in the morning![/B]

12.) Go Bucks - 05/23/2013

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;6184](This is a trap for GoBucks, so evwyone be vewwwy, vewwwy qwiet....)

:shh:[/QUOTE]

they should know how to cook since their lives depended on it... much practice cooking for the Germans. Kind of a Darwinian thing... "It better be good, or we shoot you!" to weed out the bad ones

13.) Swamp Fox - 05/23/2013

LOL...hadn't thought of it that way. Everyone needs a break from constant sausage, cabbage and potatoes once in a while :-)

"My friends, let us the border cross,[I] schnell[/I], und by force some unaccustomed-to-eating-here-in-the- Fatherland red meat drowned in rich sauce obtain. Afterwards, we will enjoy on the tree-lined streets of Paris vigorously marching, because for our marching-enjoyment the cheese-eating Gauls have provided such avenues."


(Sorry, my German is very rustig, so in English I provide: That would be how the conversation starts when a German plans a trip to France. :wink)

14.) luv2bowhunt - 05/23/2013

Sounds erstaunlich.

15.) Swamp Fox - 05/23/2013

Fur sicher....LOL

16.) DParker - 05/23/2013

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;6191]LOL...hadn't thought of it that way. Everyone needs a break from constant sausage, cabbage and potatoes once in a while :-)

"My friends, let us the border cross,[I] schnell[/I], und by force some unaccustomed-to-eating-here-in-the- Fatherland red meat drowned in rich sauce obtain. Afterwards, we will enjoy on the tree-lined streets of Paris vigorously marching, because for our marching-enjoyment the cheese-eating Gauls have provided such avenues."


(Sorry, my German is very rustig, so in English I provide: That would be how the conversation starts when a German plans a trip to France. :wink)[/QUOTE]

"Das [I]Maginot Lijn[/I]? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!"

17.) Swamp Fox - 05/23/2013

"Ach, so, vee jus go around your silly line..."


LOL


This reminds me of the old joke:

Q: How do you make German Chocolate Cake?

A: First, you vill occupy der Kitchen...


:beer:

:laugh:

18.) Go Bucks - 05/23/2013

Have you heard about the new French tank??



1 gear forward, 5 reverse... the forward is in case the enemy attacks from the rear

19.) Go Bucks - 05/23/2013

Joke not needing a punch line... Why does the French military wear brown pants??

20.) Go Bucks - 05/23/2013

Recent Ad: French Armory rifle clearance sale: Never shot, only dropped once..

21.) DParker - 05/23/2013

And of course, the most relevant here...

[I]"You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion."[/I]

- Jed Babbin

22.) Swamp Fox - 05/24/2013

You know why the French gave us the Statue of Liberty?

It wouldn't work over there with just one arm raised...

23.) bluecat - 05/24/2013

Ingrates

[URL=http://s990.photobucket.com/user/mx482/media/frenchmaid-1_zps3a18ca66.jpg.html][/URL]

24.) Swamp Fox - 05/24/2013

Darn, and I just vacuumed!

25.) DParker - 05/24/2013

{Insert-video-of-Phil-Hartman-on-SNL-doing-his-impression-of-Robert-Palmer-with-the-models-from-the-Addicted-To-Love-video-cleaning-his-apartment-in-the-background}