Program : Meeting in Montauban - November 2008

Monday, November 10th

Arrival of the partners - Toulouse
Visit of a covered market
http://www.marchevictorhugo.fr/index4.htm
Visit of a cheese shop + the World of Spices
http://www.fromages-xavier.com/

Free time and meal (chargeable to every participant)

The « Cité de l’Espace » (admission fees chargeable to every partner)
http://www.cite-espace.com/

Arrival to the hotel Mercure

Free time in the evening , (a list of the restaurants will be given to all the partners )

Tuesday, November 11th (in France it’s a bank holiday)

At 8.30 : departure for Cahors and its region and visit of the “Chateau de Haute Serre”, a vineyard
http://www.vindecahors.fr/

A conference on “ truffles” in an agricultural school in Gramat
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/station-truffe/index.htm

Visit of Rocamadour, a very nice village
http://www.rocamadour.com/

Free time for dinner and evening

Wednesday, November 12th

A cup of coffee at school
10/12h : Working on the project and preparation of the objectives for this year

Regional gastronomic buffet

Visit of Montauban
http://www.montauban-tourisme.com/

Visit of the « Jardin des Simples » and of “Ingres museum”
http://www.montauban.com/detente/detente_vie_culturelle/musees/ingres/accueil.php?page=presentation

Dinner at the restaurant “ Au fil de l’eau ”

Thursday, November 13th

Visit of Bruniquel (old houses, belfry and ruins of medieval fortifications)

Visit of an angora goat-breeding and cheese making farm

Lunch at a farm inn (les Chênes) serving home-made products (about 30€, chargeable to each participant)
http://www.les-chenes.fr/

16h : Preparation of a Comenius meal
(each school must prepare a dish for about 40 people) During our meeting in La Spezia we had decided which dish each school would prepare ..

Comenius dinner

Friday and Saturday

Departure of the partners according to their flight times

Filet Mignon de Porc au Corrézon

Recette présentée à la réunion de Montauban en novembre 2008.

MONTAUBAN Novembre 2008

Au cours de cette réunion, nous présenterons une recette alliant un fromage corrézien et quelques produits régionaux tels que le cochon Cul noir de ST Yrieix, le miel de bruyère et la bière de la brasserie St Martial.

"Pavé de filet mignon de porc "Cul noir" au Corrézon rôti, sauce au miel et bière du Limousin, écrasée de pomme de terre et châtaignes aux noisettes".

A bientôt pour la fiche et les photos.

Meeting in La Spezia (Italy)

1. ACTIVITIES DURING THE MEETING :

Visit of the catering section of La Spezia school
Visit of the garden of aromatic herbs “Comenius”
Meeting with the students and the teachers
Presentation of the work done by the students and the team of teachers during the school year.
Presentation of the blogs of the different schools
Preparation of dishes created by the students during the year
Tasting of these dishes by all the partners from a buffet prepared by the students of La Spezia.
Meeting with the press and television .
Visit of a fish keeping place
Visit of a mussel farm
Visit of Cinque Terre by boat
Visit of a wine cellar
Visit of the Organic Valley “ Val di Vara”.
Meeting with a producer of organic cheese and organic dairy products
Tasting of local products .
Meeting with vegetable producers and reception by the inhabitants of a village“Pignone”specialised in organic agriculture

2. ACTIVITIES IN 2007/2008

a) Meeting project in Almeria (Spain) : planning of the objectives of the year
b) Meeting project in La Spezia (Italie) : presentation of the activities and work achieved during the school year
c) Visit of food processing factories
d) Cultural visits
e) Creation of blogs and communication through them all along the year
f) Creation in each school of a garden of aromatic herbs, required by the objectives of the project
g) Creation by each school of a dish based on the use of local products and aromatic herbs
h) Preparation of some dishes from the different partners by the students in each school thanks to the recipe cards exchanged through the blogs .
i) Preparation of a glossary of technical words used in the different recipe cards
j) Preparation of a European Comenius evening in all the schools participating in the project .
k) Work on the geography of every country

3. DATES OF OUR NEXT MEETING IN MONTAUBAN

The next meeting will be held in Montauban in November 2008 from Monday 10th to Friday 14th . We will prepare the objectives for the year 2008/2009.(everyone can think about the possible activities .)

Each school will have to prepare a dish based on cheese and dairy products and aromatic herbs.

Travaux de printemps

Avec les nombreuses averses du printemps et après les lapins, notre jardin est envahi par les mauvaises herbes, ce qui nous oblige à désherber assez souvent.

With the rainy spring, our garden is full of bad grasses, so we need to weed it very often.

LA SPEZIA : The dishes presented. Plat présentés. Platos presentados.

Vous pouvez retrouver les fiches techniques de tous les plats ci-dessous sur les blogs de chaque école.

You can find the recipes of all these dishes in the blogs of each school.

Pueden descubrir las recetas en los blogs de cada escuela.

Montauban

Lofoten

Almeria
Limoges

Trebisacce

La Spezia
Soverato

Photos of the meeting in La Spezia

Many thanks to Paola, Stefano and all the teachers, students and administration of school of La Spezia. It was a very nice meeting, a good organization and interesting visits. THANK YOU !