Il fait beau et chaud à Paris

It is warm and very sunny outside. I had many meetings today, so I decided it would be fun to walk around. But I didn't take into account how warm it actually was.

Once I got home I remembered that I had frozen grapes in the freezer, and boy were they a great relief to the heat.

All I need now is to teleport to the South of France !

Picture of the Week : Monet's Waterlilies

Flowers are starting to bloom in Paris despite the on-and-off cold /warm phase. So I thought it would be appropriate to see another form of flowers that are inspiring no matter what time of year, Monet's waterlilies.

These paintings are found in the Musée de l'Orangerie which is located in the Jardin de Tuileries. Whenever I need a break I like to pop in and get inspired.

Do you feel inspired ?

Kentucky Pizza

At the Sevran Beaudottes station on the RER B line and also near my apartment, there is a pizza place that serves Kentucky pizza!

A Kentucky pizza is Creme Fraiche, Cheese, Chicken, Mushrooms, Potatoes, Olives and Oregano. I guess they are basing it off Kentcuky Fried Chicken, but I have never seen a KFC that sells olives and mushrooms and creme fraiche with their meals.  But then again we are in France, so I guess they add ingredients to suit their tastes.

I have yet to try this pizza, but I will post about it if I ever do.


 

Picture of the Week : Musicora @ Palais Brongniart

On Friday and today I attended Musicora, a salon for classical music. I met with many festival organizers and artists, to get the ball rolling with my agency. It was held at Palais Brongniart, Place de Bourse. A lovely building it used to be the French Wall Street. But has now been converted into an events building.

It was 9:30 am when I took this picture, I had to get there early for the conferences and meetings. Obviously there was nobody else around, but in the afternoon they had a pep band and such.

Have you been to Palais Brongniart ?
 

French Toast

One day for breakfast I decided to make French toast or as they say in French "pain perdu"/lost bread. Probably because it's origins are really not French.

It was delicious. I used oat bread found and sliced at the boulangerie, powdered sugar and cinamon and 2 eggs with a Turkish coffee. I need something strong to start my day off with a bang !

 How do you like your "Pain Perdu"?
 

Where's Waldo in France

The other day, I had some time to kill before meeting up with friends near Notre Dame. So I went to Gibert Jeune to do some book-looking, I had told myself in advance that I am not allowed to buy new books, because I still have not touched the ones I bought a month ago !

Obviously they all are about cooking, I am obsessed if you didn't already know. I always love to try out a new recipe and tweak it into my own. At the time, I thought "I need some cookbooks in French to learn new vocab and cook with friends who speak French" but that still hasn't happened. I am determined to make some bread this afternoon, we will see how that goes

For those of you don't know, Gibert Jeune are the bookstores that have yellow signs at Saint Michel. Mainly it is a used bookstore. They have a nice variety of used English fiction books as well, I have bought a few Mary Higgians Clark that I love to reread and reread. So, as I was strolling along the rows of used books.

  I stumbled upon "Where's Waldo?" but in French it is"Où est Charlie"/ "Where's Charlie?" My first reaction was why is it Charlie, is Waldo just too weird for them ?

So I decided to do a little research and I stumbled across this blog. Even though it doesn't have a really good explanation, I didn't think I could trust the Wikipedia version, their "you know you are American when..." are pretty funny.

Try to find Waldo !

 

Picture of the Week : Throw away the key

This is a picture of a bridge where people lock their hearts to the city or to each other. I don't remember the exact location but I think it is near Saint-Michel.
 
 

Luxembourg

A few weekends ago, my husband and I visited some family in Metz, France. One thing is if you think there are a lot of Turks in Paris, there are 10 times more in Metz.
While we were there we decided to take a quick tour of Luxembourg, the country, with some cousins.

The Mayor's office

Looks like Bastille

Hopefully next time we go it will be sunny and we will have more time to go around and explore the museums.