So my friends and I have found another grocery store in Laval. Hahahah I know what you all are thinking, wow she has way too much time on her hands and what a loser and I can’t believe I’m going to read another blog about a grocery store. But in all honesty and to be fair I was/am searching for some particular foods. So this search all began a few weeks ago when a few other assistants and I were talking about Thanksgiving, my English friend Laura got so excited and demanded that we make a Thanksgiving dinner. Apparently, last year some of her American friends from UNI(that’s English for college or university) made a Thanksgiving dinner and the English people loved it. So a few more weeks went by and then Laura reminded me again about Thanksgiving dinner here in Laval at the Foyer. So over the past weekend the wheels got put into motion, somehow I got elected team captain for the turkey dinner. So we set out in search for some turkey day provisions. Naturally we all had to go to the newly found grocery store to try our luck. (ok so I’ll say this quickly and I won’t spend that much time on it but the store is called le Clerc and its bigger than Carrefour but not as great as Auchon ( the target one) and I personally enjoyed my shopping experience there) so back to the search for the Thanksgiving food. So France does not have cranberry sauce or cranberries to make the sauce, this, my friends is a huge problem. I’m not sure if all of you know this but personally my Thanksgiving isn’t complete unless I have the canned jelly type cranberry sauce minus the actually cranberries in it. You know the kind of sauce that has the actually ribs in it from the can and probably has no nutrition value in it, that’s the best kind. But I’ve come to terms that I will not have this kind of cranberry sauce for the big dinner but still I would enjoy some type of cranberry sauce. So Cranberries are on the list, along with brown sugar. I’m in charge of the apple pie and I want to make sticky buns too. I need brown sugar for both. And finally we need pumpkin mixture, naturally for the pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread. However none of these things are in France or in Le Clerc. We are on the hunt for all of these things and not having much luck. Some good news I do have is that Liz works with a teacher who knows a turkey farmer. So we have to special order the turkey from a straight up turkey farm. I am calling them soon so they can have it killed and plucked for the 28th (this is when the turkey dinner is going down… I know what you are thinking, how come you are not having it on Thursday dear Jen, we all know you only work 8 hours a week why not have it on the actually day? But we all actually have work on Thursday, one of the only days.lol). So we must order this turkey fresh off the farm, isn't that crazy? I’m going to a turkey farm next week in France...bahahaha just cracks me up. Lol. Soooo guess who get to cook the turkey… yup that’s right… me! For some reason everyone here thinks I’m most qualified. lol guess I’m going to have to Google how to make a turkey lol.
Oh so we found none of these things at Le Clerc but I did buy an oven! So our little kitchenettes don't come with them, just 2 hot plates, a sink, and mini fridge. No it’s not the type of oven you are thinking of but like a toaster oven but bigger. Here’s a pic.
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