5 Things

1) When you're craving Italian cheese, especially homemade mozzarella, burrata and scamorza, head to La Maison de la Mozzarella!




2) A soggy Sunday ride home




3) You better show up hungry if you reserve a table at Bofinger




4) From the farm to the market

5) A favorite wine bar of mine



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5 Things

1) Coffee




2) Love

3) End of summer at le marché

4) Les Deux Plateaux




5) Montmartre colors



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Advice From Madame La Fromagère

"Jamais dans le réfrigérateur!," la fromagère firmly stated as I was buying this wedge of Tome du Ramier at the Pari Fermier market today.
Concerned by that advice, I told her that our apartment was often quite warm. "Better it is kept too warm than too cold," she replied.

And as much as I would love to experiment with how long I could leave this cheese sitting out at room temperature before it starts to decompose, I highly doubt that it will be around long enough to find out!


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5 Things

1) Climbing stairs in the 18ème

2) Door love




3) Trés sucré!

4) Mid afternoon at a Parisian café




5) Normandy chèvre




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Port-en-Bessin And Le Marché Aux Poissons

Clams and sea snails and delicious, tender salicornes.




Sign for the locally made fish soup. I love his face!



Low tide.




It's étrille season, a tiny local crab that tastes like lobster. They were busy filling bag after bag with the live crabs for customers.




Port-en-Bessin is famous for its scallops, and there is evidence of that everywhere.




Local oysters from Asnelles-sur-Mer.




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5 Things

1) Early morning in the 5ème




2) Classical




3) Colors of summer




4) Paris skyline




5) Tommes and tommettes




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A Morning At The Market

The markets and its vendors are two of the reasons I love living in France.

While waiting in line at my favorite cheese and butter truck at the Bayeux market yesterday, I passed the time snapping a few photos and watching the interactions between the salespeople and the customers in front of me. There's always a lot of banter and discussion, which often includes serving and cooking advice.

You really can't be in a hurry when you go to the market.



After the requisite bonjour, the man who works there very randomly and totally out of the blue started singing. It was just too funny and I couldn't resist...so in a very tongue-in-cheek way I asked him if he did concerts in his spare time. He jokingly responded that his day job was selling cheese and his night job was as a lounge singer, which sent the two women working with him into hysterical fits of laughter and got a chuckle from all of us waiting in line for our cheese.

When it was finally my turn and before I could even say a word, the woman who owns the truck held up two rounds of my favorite Normandy salt butter and asked if I wanted a little disk of fresh Bajocasse.

She knows me well.




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5 Things

1) That rind!




2) Paris in bloom

3) At the café




4) Remembering - at the American cemetery

5) Bouquet assembly




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5 Things

1) Wedges of 3 year old Comté

2) Le petit déjeuner




3) Old stones, old wood, old vines

4) Roots

5) Late afternoon glow




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5 Things

1) Pont-l'Evêque férmier




2) Looking up in le passage Vendôme in Paris




3) "Very juicy" lemons




4) A surprising sight at the Bayeux market




5) I'll take one of each, please


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5 Things

1) So you don't confuse French endives with Belgian endives...




2) Tartelette au Safran with orange flower water infused crème anglaise and topped with fresh grapefruit segments.
Mere words cannot describe how delicious this was.




3) The colors of Béziers

4) Intersect

5) Dark chocolate sauce and toasted almonds - a favorite!



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