First Group Dinner

So every Wednesday night we have group dinners with all 10 Dijonettes (what we call our group) and Nathalie and then the host families of whoever is cooking. So for our first group dinner yesterday, Emily and Courtney cooked boeuf bourgignon for our main course and then they also had to prepare the l'entree (which is appetizer here - in America we apparently never understand french words, because the main dish here is plat principal not entree) and buy the dessert and wine. It was a great beginning to our weekly dinners and both Emily and Courtney were amazing chefs, it was probably the BEST meal I have had since I've been here. For the entree we had salad where we could add whatever vegetables we wanted to, and we also had three types of cheese, bread, and potatoes with green beans. Then we had the boeuf bourgignon for the main dish, and they also cooked ravioli for the vegetarians. Then for dessert we had chocolate cake and macaroons. It was FANTASTIQUE!

While it was amazing, it was also completely intimidating to have their dinner as our first dinner because next week Cha and I have to cook dinner and there is no way we can surpass that. These group dinners are great though because it gives us all the chance to have dinner together and also either try to make french dishes or make something from home - although with recipes from home that can be pretty hard because we have to convert to metric measurements. But, Cha and I are cooking something we don't need measurements for and our dessert will be classic american! It should turn out just fine and hopefully everyone likes our meal just as much as they liked the first meal.