Beef Bourguignon in the School Cafeteria

Finally, a chance to eat the fabled traditional dish beef bourguignon ... ironic that it was in the school cafeteria where I always eat. With French bread it was just wonderful, especially served hot (the temperature has dropped about 10 degrees celsius over the past few days, winter's finally arrived).

As a side dish, a salad of maché lettuce. The maché looks like clover but tastes more like rocquette and it's delightful (I love the salads at lunchtime!)

Please check out this article by NPR about this "new" type of lettuce from a 2003 broadcast ...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1370492