At home

This is Otto's work space in our bedroom.




I'm making croques monsieurs--grilled cheese sandwiches, French style; something that is commonly available in cafés at lunch time. Basically I spread bread with crème fraîche-a version of sour cream that can be heated without it curdling, topped with emmental or gruyère cheese, slice of ham, more cheese and then another slice of bread. The top gets some crème fraîche, nutmeg and pepper and some more cheese. It all goes under the grill for about 10 minutes. With a salad on the side it makes a great quick lunch or dinner.



Luc has picked up a new hobby--card tricks. Here he is practicing a trick so that later he can videotape it and put it on YouTube. He learns most of them from the internet and then tries them out on us, many times over. And yes, there is a point when we've all had enough of his tricks. Most of them are pretty cool, though. The one above is called "Four Kingdoms".