Meals in France by Déborah Régnier and Victoria Gallaire

The meals of the day

French people love eating !

We love food and we enjoy cooking !

Breakfast

In the morning, we have breakfast.

We sometimes drink orange juice .

But we prefer hot drinks such as cocoa, coffee and tea.

Most of us have French bread ( baguette) with butter, chocolate spread « Nutella », jam, cereals.

BreakfastJam Bread Pastries Chocolate

CoffeeFruit juice

Tea

Lunch First, there is a starter : pâté, eggs, mixed salads, raw vegetables…

Then, a main course that includes meat or fish and cooked vegetables.

Then, we have cheese .

Finally, dessert : fruit, yoghurt, pudding or a

cake (on Sundays).

Our favourites

Tomato Macedonia and ham

Pasta with chicken

Cheese and yoghurt

Chocolate cake with strawberry

Cookies

FridaysOn Fridays, we traditionally eat fish because Jesus was

crucified on a Friday and, therefore, eating « flesh » was forbidden.

Of course, things are changing as people are less religious nowadays and school dinners have to conform to

secularism in our country.

5 o'clock tea

After school , we have a snack :

we love bread with Nutella spread (chocolate cream

and hazelnuts )

Yummy !!

Dinner

In the evening, we often eat home made soup;

We mix mashed vegetables : carrots, potatoes, leeks, onions,parsnips etc …

For dinner, we also eat pizza and quiche Lorraine with salad.

Quiche : a French Favourite !

You need : - a roll of dough - 3 eggs - 250 g cream - 150 g bacon - Nutmeg, salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 200 ° C

Place the dough in a pie dish, prick the bottom with a fork.

Mix the beaten eggs and cream.

Fry the bacon.

Add the bacon to the egg mixture with salt, pepper, grated nutmeg .

Pour over the dough. You can spread grated cheese on top.

Bake for 30 min.

Recipe n° 1: quiche Lorraine

In the summer

Chicken, sausages, pork or lamb chops

hamburgers, beef steak

We often eat salads and barbecue.

To give a little more flavor to our meat, we eat it with sauces like : Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Tartare, Béarnaise. Vinaigrette is for salads.

Our favourite dressings

Recipe n° 2: Vinaigrette

40 cl olive oil 20 cl red wine vinegar 20 cl water (optional) 20 cl strong mustard 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon pepper

To save time, I prepare the vinaigrette pouring all the ingredients into the blender graduated jar :

No need to measure, just pour and stir !

French cheeseAfter the main dish and before dessert , we eat cheese, either after lettuce or with it.

●Coulommier

●Goat cheese

●Maroilles

French cheese

A Christmas dinner

The Christmas dinner is a family dinner

Christmas favourites

Bûche

« foie gras » (geese liver), Oni

on jam

Turkey & chesnut stuffing

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Deborah and Victoria - class 3 °A

Déborah

Victoria