14 October 2008

Rayla's Crêpe Eating Advetures!

How any crepes can one person eat during nine months in France? Place your bets, let's find out as we trace Rayla's crepe eating adventures!

First, some terminology.

crêpe - it starts out with a really thin pancake-like thing, and then you fill it with delicious stuff like chocolate, fruit, or Nutella. It's amazing. (By the way, just for the record, it's pronounced like creh-puh [rhymes with Jonny Depp's last name] it is NOT a craype!)

galette - like a crepe, but made with buckwheat flour and no sugar, and filled with ham (jambon), cheese, eggs, and sometimes other stuff. It's a specialty of Bretagne.

nutella - an amazing spread with peanut-butterish consistency, made of hazlenuts and chocolate. Very European, very delicious. Great in crêpes.


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1) Sept. 4, GALETTE ENCOUNTER! Rayla enjoys a delicious, home-made galette complet on her first evening with her host family.

2) Sept. 10, AU CHOCOLAT. Rayla, Uchenna, Ashley, and Alex discover the amazing crêperie right off the bus line at République. Rayla eats an amazing crêpe au chocolat.

3) Sept. 12, AU CHOCOLAT. Rayla and Maggie wander around near school during a double free period until they finally discover an adorable crêperie. Yummy chocolate crêpes!

4) Sept. 14, AU NUTELLA AT ST. MALO! Rayla eats a Nutella crepe with her host family at St. Malo.

5) Sept. 17, PARTY AT THE CREPERIE! Six SYAers go down to the crêperie at République for a tasty snack. Rayla gets chocolate again.

6) Sept. 19, ST. MALO CREPES AGAIN. On the school trip to St. Malo, Katie, Maggie, Lucie, and Rayla enjoy delicious nutella crêpes with powdered sugar.

7) Sept. 19, MORE CREPES TODAY. Rayla and Katie enjoy their second Nutella crêpe of the day at the Crêperie Ste. Anne after we get back from St. Malo.

8-9) Sept. 20, CREPES FOR LUNCH. Rayla & Co. enjoy a yummy lunch of ham & cheese galettes and nutella crêpes.

10) Sept. 24, CREPE/GALETTE COMBINATIONS. Rayla splits a galette jambon/fromage with Jackson, and then splits a crêpe au chocolat and a crêpe beurre sucre three ways with Jackson and Ashley. This comes out to 1/2 + 2/3 of a crêpe, which comes out to 7/6. Which is about 1.

11) Sept. 25, THE ALWAYS-CLOSED CREPE PLACE IS OPEN!!! Katie and Rayla ditch the St. Vincennes café and end up at that creperie that is always closed, and it was actually open! Rayla enjoyed a crêpe au chocolat.

12) Sept. 26, HAPPY B-DAY CREPE! Maggie and Rayla have a double free and go to that cute creperie again. Crêpe au nutella this time!

13-14) Sept. 27, CREPES FOR LUNCH. Maggie and Rayla eat crêpes for lunch during our shopping expedition (in which I accidentally drained my bank account, oops!) Galette jambon et fromage, and several hours later, un crêpe beurre sucre.

15) Sept. 29, CREPES FOR LUNCH. Kelly and Katie and Rayla go to the crêperie that's never open and speak French the whole time. Meanwhile, I also eat a galette jambon fromage et un crêpe au chocolat.

16) Sept. 29, APRES L'ECOLE. Maggie and Rayla get crêpes after school. Au nutella.

17-18) Oct 4, AT OUR FAVORITE CREPERIE.

19-23) Oct 9, TOO MANY CREPES! AHHH!

24-25) Oct 11, Creperie Ste. Anne

26) Oct 13, Creperie Ste. Anne

27-28) Oct 17, Creperie That's Never Open

4 comments:

Katelyn said...

you are going to be so deprived when you come back to the US...

Anonymous said...

LOLLLL are you seriously going to NUMBER EACH AND EVERY CREPE YOU EAT??? LOLL!! i place my bet at about 1,000 xP but that INCLUDES galettes!

ps, i love how you just HAVE to add in the crepe pronounciation xD

mumhyl said...

I really want to try some too! How fun to track your crepe eating across France...

Katelyn said...

i don't know how i feel about this "katie and rayla" team...... its a litte disconcerting... but maybe it's just me.