12 April; Europe, relish, and missed championships
Well, I am officially getting old and/or very busy. I totally missed the NCAA basketball championship game, one of my favorite events to watch anywhere. Oh, well. I must have been in Europe; got back last night from 7 days in France and Switzerland. If you are going to Europe, 3 good places for you:
1. Correze, France, if you want to get away from it all. Tiny, quaint village, quiet, inexpensive motel that must be 300 years old (Mercure Correze La Seniorie) with fantastic food at the motel restaurant.
2. Strasbourg, France, if you want some good history. The cathedral at Strasbourg is simply INCREDIBLE (was the tallest building in the world for 400 years!). Costs are higher, and it is a city, but cool history (Erasmus really liked it, it seems, and is claiming to be the original location for the printing press).
3. Zurich, Switzerland, for high brow, high cost, high quality, and cool downtown. It does have the Grossmünster Church, home of the Swiss Reformation, which was pretty cool.

I will post pics later. I just thought I would post a relish recipe we got from our landlady. She made some for us over Chinese New Year, and it is awesome! If you at all like relishes like sauerkraut, etc., this is a sweet version of it that tastes great on beans, hot dogs, hamburgers, steak, etc. I can't get enough of it. Supposedly, Hawaiian papayas are the best in this relish, which you US folk ought to be able to get.