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Re: Baguette
[Re: LBI2SXM]
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07/30/2017 07:30 PM
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It is awesome eaten with Boursin garlic and fine herbs. It's a cheese spread, and for some reason it tastes better when eaten in sxm!
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Re: Baguette
[Re: sail2wind]
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07/30/2017 11:13 PM
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We generally get our 'going home' sandwiches from there of late along with pastries to take home. The ladies pack the cooler for us and always with a smile and a 'Godspeed' as we leave. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
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"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
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Re: Baguette
[Re: WhitandTamra]
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07/31/2017 11:06 AM
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WhitandTamra said: Zee best has a very good baguette sandwich...brie and fig jam. I've tried, to no avail, to recreate it's deliciousness. Our first trip to SXM (7 days long), we only brought $400 cash, a credit card and discovered we had forgotten to bring our debit cards. Cash on the island is crucial! We then made the mistake of purchasing a very very small cooler....$50!!! We practically LIVED on baguettes & beer that trip!! Not so fun at the time but makes me laugh now. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/toast.gif" alt="" /> You made me smile with this post. Our very first trip was so many years ago - 44 this coming November to be exact - and we were kids. The only other place we'd been to was Bermuda on our honeymoon seven or eight years before so we were pretty green as travel experiences went. The SXM experience was a promotional trip sponsored by a company we dealt with in our fledgling business (I think we probably owed them our souls at the time) but we did accumulate enough points to qualify for it. We were in our mid twenties and as poor as 'church mice' as the expression goes. We had two small kids, a house we'd just built with what we thought of as a hefty mortgage back then (and one people would love to have in today's world....) and a business we were still struggling to get off the ground. For all intentions St. Martin was the last thing in the world we should have done given our finances at the time but the trip included airfare, hotel and meals along with several cocktail parties so we thought we could handle it. We brought what we thought was a princely amount of money - $500.00 in cash. Surely that would be plenty! Who knew? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" /> I'm pretty sure there were credit cards back then and I'm equally sure we didn't have any and there was no such thing as a debit card at that time. And since all we had to pay was for our personal entertainment - drinks, trips, etc., believe it or not, we made it through the week although towards the end we were starting to get nervous. I remember my DH putting a five dollar bill in a secret spot in his wallet jic the finances got really hairy. We didn't want to be stranded on the island because we couldn't afford the departure fee of US $2.00 per person. Those were the days, my friends........<img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
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pat
"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
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Re: Baguette
[Re: pat]
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07/31/2017 11:34 AM
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We didn't want to be stranded on the island because we couldn't afford the departure fee of US $2.00 per person. I remember putting aside the departure fee in a secret spot too so we would be sure to have enough cash to leave. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> Fresh baguette is the best, but the best toast is made from day-old baguette with Dutch butter and Bonne Maman jam!
That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante, that's all I want, La Vie Dansante (JB)
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Re: Baguette
[Re: Kathleen]
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07/31/2017 11:38 AM
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Kathleen,
I agree absolutely. When John has his morning pastries I often make baguette toast and like you, use Dutch butter and Maman raspberry jam. Yumm..... <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Joy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Joy.gif" alt="" />
Respectfully,
pat
"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
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