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Today’s Sunday crepes

Gaelle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:02:37 +0000

You will believe we can't help but eat in France. The 'chandeleur' is another Christian feast that deserves its very own treat: crepes. They are kind of thinner larger pancakes. The official date was Friday, but we're used to celebrate on Sunday with family.

La galette des rois

Gaelle — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:08:20 +0000

I got back home tonight at 7 exhausted, angry, revolted, depressed from a f...$%*€$$%...g working day having got pressured by my workmates. I heated my vegetable soup in the microwave (pumpkin, home made ... delicious), and drunk my bowl of milk reading my preferred blogs Mode Personnelle (hilarious), Just Jared (shouldn't but so nice to gossip), Cafe Mode (educated from a French fashion journalist). Feeling still harassed, I tuned in to My Yoga Online to find some excruciating class. Started one and stopped at 30 min as I was lying face down on my mat my jaw in my hand gazing at the guy. Off to shower (10 minutes boiling water on my back .... oh god so good), got back to my computer and thought 'If I write a post, I have million of notes and ideas on hold.'

Pierre Herme, chef patissier

Gaelle — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:23:04 +0000

The macaron bossman in Paris is Pierre Herme. his macarons are by far yummier than any other pastries'. The biscuit shell is delicately crunchy and the heart is ... creamier. Besides the texture, the flavors are insane.

The Blue Elephant brunch, London

Gaelle — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:50:43 +0000

The front door of the Blue Elephant of London is just as regular as any restaurant. But when you step inside, it's a total shock. After the dark lobby, you get in a tropical garden of flowers, a built in fountain and fish ponds underneath wooden bridges. It's awesome! The meals are a bit spicier than they are in Paris, but as yummy. All ingredients are of the finest quality. The choice is huge and the refill is for free.

Paris

Gaelle — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:10:22 +0000

On my way out to Guiana last week, I stopped one day in Paris to have my hair cut and shop beauty products to refill my bathroom cabinet. I am loyal to my Sisley products, which are cheaper in France, and nothing is as good as the beauty products I've been purchasing in French pharmacies for years.

The carrot cakes benchmark

Gaelle — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:12:55 +0000

France is the worldwide capital of the best bakeries and pastries ever. And it's not because I'm French I'm claiming it loud. Ok I might be a tad self-centered. But, honestly! I don't think any pastry is as fine as Pierre Herme's. Though (there's always a but), there's still a couple of delicacies French pastry chefs still need to master: the cookies and the carrot cake. I benchmarked

Ginger & cinnamon banana blueberry cake

Gaelle — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:30:10 +0000

Serve with a hot cafe latte.

English breakfast at Lucky 7, London

Gaelle — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:54:30 +0000

Breakfast is my favorite time and meal of the day so that I save 30 minutes off sleep to make a good one. Eggs and ham for proteins, home made smoothies out of 5 fruit or more, one dairy product like fat free milk or yoghurt and cereals, rice cake topped with jam or honey. On week end days, I try to make it even more special baking home made crumbles or stepping outside home. Lucky 7's breakfast are one of the best value for money I tried so far: yummy and mostly home madeThey are either a la carte or served as menu. I ordered the healthy breakfast, eggs, bacon ..

Home made apple cake

Gaelle — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:30:08 +0000

Do slice the apple big and enjoy the cake cold just out of the fridge with fresh red berries or ice tea. It feels fresh while summer heats up outside.

Ginger coconut banana crumble

Gaelle — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:31:18 +0000

A delicious banana crumble to bake on the week end and indulge every morning at breakfast.

Living Longer

Gaelle — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:00:34 +0000

I read this in the Newsweek - 18 April 2011 at my gym club. (It was after my exercise routine, not during ... ), and thought .... OMG, it's me, I will live longer and end up still alive at 100-year-old. An old granny who cannot takes cares of herself and should rely on others to do so.

Low fat salty cake with vegetables

Gaelle — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:00:19 +0000

One of the thing I enjoy in my new life is my kitchen. My previous flat in Paris was a scam and the kitchen was just a pain. It's as if it hadn't been designed to cook in. I have resumed cooking lately, and since I eat at work during the week, I try to make something different and yummy on the week ends. It's a way to shoot pictures as well, without annoying anyone posing for me for hours but the vegs. If I want, I can even turn them upside down until I reach the perfect picture of them ha ha ha ... Salty cakes are just fun to bake and to eat, as you expect something sweet. This one is vegan, but you can add ham or bacon in.

McDo saves my days in London

Gaelle — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:51:24 +0000

It's been so long that I haven't visited my own blog that I hardly remember my password to log in. It's done. I'm a proud Londoner for 1 week and 3 days, 7 hours, and 50 min, 23 sec, 25, 26, anyway... And I enjoy. I enjoy so much being there. I enjoy having moved on from Paris. I enjoy having moved on into a newly minted neighborhood in that it's not only a different place, but also it's different cultures. People speak so much different languages around me.

Nowness’ fantastic food contest

Gaelle — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:30:10 +0000

The Nowness Fantastic Food contest is opened to everyone who likes good food and taking good photos to share them thru. Pics submission is yet closed, but votes continue until Jan 6th, 2011. The 10 favorites will be included in a nowness guide on foodspotiing.com and the winner picked up by a panel of venerable judges will a Nowness contributors ... which I'd love to! I had fun taking on the competition as I like good food, and I like photography. I shot this Pierre Hermé 2000 feuilles pastry on purpose for the contest. It's one of my so guilty pleasures I avoid to indulge too often. It's at least 10 000 kcal right in my buttock. Then, after having posted it, I noticed this link to post more... oh oh oh. My lightroom library is full of food pics. My friends don't invite me anywhere anymore as I keep them from eating until I take a good pic of their plates (I'm kidding... I have no friends. ha ha ha). I browse it all to find the delicious things I wanted to share.

Nespresso vanilla pod is back

Gaelle — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:54:13 +0000

Nespresso has reedited the caramel, vanilla, almond trio flavors into a Livanto grand cru of last year.

Happa Teï’s Japanese cuisine

Gaelle — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:30:47 +0000

Happa Teï has became the last canteen I subscribed to in Paris. It's a Japanese restaurant (one of the only with what sounds true Japanese people in the kitchen rather than Chineses) of Rue Sainte Anne (one of both Japanese streets of Paris, the other being Rue Monsieur le Prince). The reason why I like it is I never ate that before. Simple yep. I really need to go to Japan one day.

Scarlett Johansson is the face of Moet & Chandon champagne

Gaelle — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:30:01 +0000

Moët picked an actress/ model to advertise an alcohol in British Vogue, a fashion magazine. It seems that goods consumption become more and more a whole big market, which frontiers get thinner

Jardin du Luxembourg’s beehives

Gaelle — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:30:04 +0000

Do you know that Paris gets several honey manufacturing beehives. Among them, Opera roof top's and Jardin du Luxembourg's are the hte most widely known.

Kazaar, Nespresso new limited edition blend

Gaelle — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:39:12 +0000

With an extreme intensity (12th grade), it's the strongest grand cru Nespresso has ever made so far.

L’Avant Comptoir in Paris

Gaelle — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:30:40 +0000

duck magret, foie gras, typical pork and wild boar hams, gratins, lentils, sautéed vegetables. The restaurant is so famed in Paris that you need to start to queue from 15 min before noon to get your seat at lunch. No way to book in advance

La Terrasse du Plaza’s lobster club sandwich

Gaelle — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:30:06 +0000

At crunch, it was first smoked, then soft and at the end a bud explosion of fresh lobster and avocado

Sipping an espresso at a terrace in Paris

Gaelle — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:30:58 +0000

is a once-the-sun-is-shinning sport. A sunny weekend get lots of Parisian attracted at terraces whether it's cold or hot. The truth is you can understand that behavior only when you live in Paris and you crave for some sun all year long. I guess I found out one big terrace place fraud in Paris at Montparnasse.

Caviar Prunier

Gaelle — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:30:04 +0000

I have been invited a few weeks ago to (pay) a luncheon at Caviar Prunier house at Place de la Madeleine, Paris. You bet I booked at the second I received the invitation. It's been a while that I wanted to attend one of these evenings. For $50 for sampling all of their products: salmon different fashion, sturgeon and ... caviar. Let me say it was the icing of he cake. Actually, I never tasted such a delicious caviar. I guess that each time I tasted caviar before that experience, it was like I was sucking the sturgeon's teats. You see what I mean? A strong taste and smell from inside my mouth of iodine or tide.

A breakfast at Plaza Athénée, Paris

Gaelle — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:55:23 +0000

I had breakfast at Plaza Athénée a couple of weeks ago. It may seem posh as an habit. Let me say it's damned worth the $90 I paid for. It's been 5 years, I guess, that having brunch is a trendy week end activity. A lot of restaurant have debuted their own. While the quality steadily falls down over time, the prices continuously rise. I won't give any name that does that. Yet I am giving one, right here, that remains a wonderful experience. For the meals and the decor. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. Everyday, I wake up 30 minutes earlier and save time to get a good starting. Hence doing breakfast in a resort is the ultimate treat. Almost better than shopping on and errand. It's an over the top bud's experience in a mythic place at a reasonable price given that it's an étoilé restaurant in a resort. (Yes I know, the breakfast is not étoilé, but Ducasse is. 3 stars buddy!). Are you ready? Come on with me. I start with the staff. Warm, considerate. They're truely nice. I arrived. I felt home.

La Patisserie des rêves

Gaelle — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:30:28 +0000

Have you gone yet to La patisserie des rêves? It's a new pastry concept at Rue du Bac in Paris near Le Bon Marché. I heard about it from my friend Kate.

In-house crumpets

Gaelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:12:41 +0000

Saturday breakfast was crumpets' delight. It's been a while that I wanted to get back to my old habits: make delightful breakfast all by myself. I started over this saturday with in-house crumpets. It's not different from pancakes, but with bubbles.

A brunch at Blue Elephant, a royal Thai restaurant

Gaelle — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:30:46 +0000

Last Sunday, I had brunch at The Blue Elephant, a Royal Thai restaurant in the heart of Bastille in Paris. I don't like Bastille neighborhood a lot. But for me the Blue Elephant is one of its jewels.

French cuisine is it at stake?

Gaelle — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:53:13 +0000

For the 3rd year in a row, Michelin guide ranks Tokyo as the city with the most top class restaurants. Tokyo holds 11 3-stars and Paris follows with 10. French TV channels are in shock. Ah ah ah. What a fuss. Tonight, they are all passing the news on. There was even an "expert" who tried to explain the shame that Tokyo has 160 000 restaurants against only 40 000 in Paris. So it's not big a deal.

First McDo set up at Le Louvres. Now that. Ah ah ah. French cuisine is it at stake?

Michelin guides are due to release by late november.

La Reine des Prés, trendy salon de thé

Gaelle — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:30:32 +0000

La Reine des Pr√©s ('the countryside queen') is a trendy salon de th√©/ restaurant belonging to Carine Veyrat, the daughter of... The architecture and soft colors of the house built onto the mountain. The wild flowers, the bicycle parked just outside, the simple stairs, the olive tree at right with its large pot. It looks like a dream countryside house. You want to come in, don't you?

Newly opened Nespresso boutique at San Francisco

Gaelle — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:07:05 +0000

I can't believe it. Nespresso is opening a store at Bloomingdales, San Francisco. Last year, I was living for 9 months at Palo Alto, 30 minutes driving from San Francisco. And it wasn't there. I used to order my pods on the website. I felt so frustrated to not be able to enjoy the Nespresso experience at a Nespresso store.