in which skye and i are accomplished chefs.

The other night, Skye and I made salmon. (It was good!) Mme de Lassagne came into the kitchen while we were getting stuff out to cook it, and asked what we were doing. Skye tried to answer, We're going to cook the salmon.

"Cook," in French, is either "faire cuire" or "cuisiner." Faire cuire probably would have been the right choice here -- "Nous allons faire cuire le saumon." Unfortunately, she got a little confused, and instead she said "cuillere." Which means "spoon": she said, "Nous allons cuillere le saumon." We're going to spoon the salmon.

When I told her later what she'd really said I was laughing so hard it took me a few minutes to be able to actually say the words.