Menu for the month of October 2001

Menu for the month of October 2001

Date	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday Middle school and High school	Thursday	Friday
1 - 5	Radishes with butter Ham (sp. turkey ham) Mashed potatoes Flan/cookie	Cheese quiche Hamburger Creamed spinach Gouda* Fruit	Tomato and rice salad Chicken cordon bleu Green beans Yogurt Fruit	Green salad Creamed turkey Pasta Kiri* Stewed fruit	Tomatoes Aïoli Coulommiers* Fruit
8 - 12	Pasta salad Turkey breast Zucchini in sauce Petits suisses*	Beets/Tuna Chipolata sausages (sp. poultry sausages) Lentils Saint Paulin* Fruit	Greek salad Lamb stew Potatoes Samos* Fruit	Green salad Beef stew Pasta Blue cheese Fruit in syrup	Grated carrots Fish filet Cauliflower with crunchy topping Babybel* Apple tart
15 - 19	Green salad Duck in orange sauce Tricolor pasta Cinnamon pears	Grapefruit Lemon chicken Zucchini pie Cream cheese with fruit topping	Tomatoes & Feta Sliced caramelized turkey Potatoes with cumin Lemon mousse	Endive, walnut and cheese salad Curried beef Basmati rice Caramelized apple	Carrot and raisin salad Spinach and salmon lasagna Coconut tart
22 - 26	Lentil salad Chicken cordon bleu Carrots St. Paulin* Fruit	Paté (Sp. turkey paté) Omelet Garden vegetables Blue cheese Fruit	Chick pea salad Sautéed rabbit Zucchini, eggplant & tomato stew Bonbel* Cream dessert	Endive & corn salad with gruyere topping Roast pork (sp. roast turkey) Rice with baby vegetables Cream dessert	Tomatoes Tuna casserole Chaource* Witches' dessert C'est l'Halloween!

Notes: Many of the meals include cheese. The starred words (*) are different sorts of cheese: Gouda, Petits Suisses, Saint Paulin, Samos, Chaource, Kiri, Coulommiers, Babybel, Bonbel.

Aïoli is a regional specialty. It consists of salted fish, boiled potatoes, green beans and carrots and a powerful garlic-mayonnaise sauce. It was originally a peasants' lunch, but it has now become a chic item on restaurant menus. It is only served on Fridays.

For the American taste this menu seems pretty sophisticated. When I picked it up at the elementary school, I asked the principal if there was much waste. She said that the only thing the children didn't really like was spinach.

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