Les desserts…

OK, food blog starting not so good. I keep forgetting to take pictures of the food before we get to the dessert! So here I’ve got two desserts to start with. Btw I keep fascinating the french by telling them of the rigid norwegian diet with desserts reserved for sundays (mostly) – they feel sorry for us…

Galette de roi

Linked to the catholic Epiphanie the 6th of january (don’t ask me what it’s about…) the french do a strange cake thing. It’s called galette de roi (kings cake) and it’s basically a too sweet almond cake (som fyrstekake på norsk, og jf navnet!) and there’s a plastic figure inside (normally of a king). The youngest person has to climb under the table while another person cuts the cake and the person under the table has to say the names of the persons precent to distribute the cake pieces. And the person who gets the king in his/hers cake piece gets the crown and is king (or queen) for the night and also has to chose a queen (or king).  It’s funny to see links between the traditions in our diffrent countries, this reminds me a bit of ‘mandel i grøten’ or what?

Charly so happy to have to go under the table

the king is found!

The king. I chose Charly for a QUEEN

 Ile flottante

After cinema (tried to see Avatar but ended up with a french movie instead) Cecilia and I tried to go to a syrian restaurant I got recommended, but as it was closed we ended up with heavy lyonnaise food (always) and a yet heavier dessert, ‘Ile flottante’ (floating island). It’s a mountain of meringue in a sea of crème anglaise. It is made by whipping egg whites, then poach (? posjere) them and put in vanilla-flavored cream.

Cecilia bravely trying to finish (we could barely finish half of it)