Une tartine!
This is usual dinner conversation at our house. Hubby comes home from work, we discuss the days happenings and I usually ask, "What would you like for dinner, dear?" "Une Tartine, please!" he responds.
Quick, quick! Type in your dashboard widget to see what Tartine means in French!
Yeah, so he wants a slice of bread for dinner! A slice of bread!?
But in France, La tartine isn't just toast, my friends... A tartine for breakfast sounds good to me. Toast? Check! Nutella? CHECK! Yummy in my tummy? Mmmmhmmm. But my husband has taken me on a tartine adventure let me list off a few that come to mind: tartine de saumon et créme fraiche, tartine de filet de thon au muscadé, tartine tartar, tartine au thon et whisky, tartine chorizo et basilique, tartine beurrre au sel de guerande et confiture de maman, tartine au jambon et fromage, tartine a l'ail and the list goes on and on.... your little desk widget is getting a lot of use, non? :)
A couple nights ago, I had a hankering for some peanut butter. Good old Skippy creamy peanut butter to be exact. Be careful buying peanut butter here because the French version has no sugar and talk about serious tongue stuck to the roof of your mouth too! Anyway, I made myself a tartine au beurre de cacahuéte et bananes. Side note: I hadn't discovered peanut butter and banana sandwiches until one late night of studying my last year in college and I happened to see one of my residents in the scholarship hall making herself a PB&B sandwich. So, I toasted myself a few slices of Pain Polka and spread the peanut butter on the warm toast and sliced bananas. J was looking over my shoulder unsure of what I was doing? I asked if he'd like one and he shakes his hadnsome French head and said "non, merci" in a very dismissing way. The French are very much against the idea of peanut butter. As my husband says, they have Nutella, why do they need peanut butter, too? I took a few bites as my husbands curious look turned to I-wish-I-could-have-a-bite look. I offered it to him and he took a large bite and smiled and muttered mouth full of PB&B, "Pas mal!" Je vois que tu comprenne bien la concept de la tartine, ma cherie"
mmmm PB&B sandwiches are great! i didn't bother to translate everything as i don't have a desktop widget, but i get the gist of it. i like these frenglish entries. sorta like french word-a-day. hmm... now i want to read a taglish (tagalog + english) blog too! or maybe chinglish or italiglish, germanglish or spanglish... i like blogs in english that throw in foreign words.
Posted by: reesie | February 28, 2006 at 17:01
I agree. If Nutella didn't cost so much here, I'd stockpile it.
Posted by: mike | February 28, 2006 at 17:05
yum. but you know what else is good? peanut butter and nutella on toast. I bet bananas on top of all that would be quite tasty, too, although I've never tried it. Just don't let your husband see -- I bet it's sacreligious or something!
Posted by: Genevieve | February 28, 2006 at 17:49
I like to grill my PB and B sandwhiches so that the peanut butter gets all hot and melty. mmmn.
Posted by: Sammy | February 28, 2006 at 18:02
I like to grill my PB and B sandwiches so that the peanut butter gets all hot and melty. mmmn.
Posted by: Sammy | February 28, 2006 at 18:07
Yuuuuuuuuuuum! You can also do PB&B WITH nutella... double yuuuuuuuuum!
Posted by: Angela | February 28, 2006 at 18:33
Don't tell hubby, but Nutella est une invention italienne, pas français! I caught my 11 year old redhanded with a jar of Nutella and a spoon just yesterday!
Posted by: buzzgirl | February 28, 2006 at 19:34
Too cute!
Posted by: Serena | February 28, 2006 at 19:55
We own a restaurant. My husband does the business end and his cousin Jennifer is the chef. One night, the special was sliced bananas. She took a banana and sliced it down the middle. She then spread a spicy pesto on the bananas, next layer was some type of cheese and then sprinkled nuts on top. It was awesome! Her inspiration was the banana, Miracle Whip sandwiches her Grandma used to make.
Posted by: Ramona | March 01, 2006 at 00:40
Are you going to post some recipes? How about tartine with grilled aubergine, pesto and mozarella? A classic. I had a friend at uni who swore by toast (i.e. tartine) with peanut butter and ketchup!
Posted by: Andre Veloux | March 01, 2006 at 12:50
Peanut butter lovers unite! I love pb&j sandwiches, and to add banana....even better!
Posted by: D | March 01, 2006 at 17:37
When I was about 7, most of my friends loved PB&B sandwiches. I have always been partial to PB and honey though.
Posted by: Dagny | March 01, 2006 at 22:50
You are hilarious... penut butter needs sugar... I would be in PB withdrawal
Posted by: Victoria | March 02, 2006 at 01:07
OMG Peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches are the BEST. We also grill our PB&Banana sands at our house. Try throwing some mini choco chips in there- they melt and get super yummy. BTW we often buy 'natural' PB, which has no added sugar. I just throw a teaspoon of honey into the PB as I spread it on the bread and it turns out delish.
Posted by: Sheree | March 03, 2006 at 22:22
Just today I was making myself a PB&J sandwich and wondering if I would be able to get peanut butter when I move to France later this year. Clearly I will have to make arrangements to have some shipped over from "back home" if I want the GOOD stuff. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Just discovered your blog via Mrs. B and am enjoying it so far.
Posted by: The Bold Soul | March 08, 2006 at 00:12
Peanutbutter. We spend a lot of time looking for some peanutbutter to put in the (west-african) spinach sauce we were making and only found it in a small exotic shop. There they had two types; one with and one without sugar. The shop owner told us that the one without sugar was for putting on bread slices and I found that strange because in the netherlands we use the one with sugar, but now I understand.
Posted by: Jo | November 20, 2009 at 23:20