xc and the extreme friday

It's another sunny day and the Parisians are out and about. The Place des Vosges looked like a sea of people at a music festival. G, who is on holiday, picked me up from work. We bought a couple of macarons chez Gerard Mulot (I still think La Duree is better) and ate them under the sun at the park just behind Musee Carnavalet. We walked along the Seine from Bastille to Ile Saint Louis. We wanted to get some gelato at Berthillon but the line outside was uber long so we just kept on walking until Notre Dame and got the metro at Ile de la Cite.

It was a pleasure finally being able to do little walks like that specially after a long day at work. Although I didn't appreciate it that much in the end because even though I wore my new fab find sandals, after walking for hours in pave-d roads, I obviously ended up having sore feet.

But all's well that ends well. For dinner G made a lovely salad and I of course made a lovelier dessert!! (G's surely going to say 'dis-donc!!', but whatever). I had a nice end-of-Friday Friday.

This weekend, if the weather stays as nice as today we'll surely go on a picnic somewhere. If not, we're surely going to spend the entire weekend in bed...and I'm not against that either.

espresso extreme


extreme...praline covered vanilla ice cream with a meringue in the center

peace, luv, & a happy weekend,
xc

xc and the berry fromage blanc

One thing about the French is that they Love, yes with a capital L, their dairy products. What a revelation in the land of cheese ey? But I never realized how important their produits laitiers is to them until G told me that we absolutely need one after every meal. Ugh! It means that we need to have a steady stock of various types of yogurts, fromage blancs, faisselles and other types of milk products. Products I'm not really a fan of...aside from the creme a la vanille and the Danette and the riz au lait that is. I Hate, with a capital H, plain yogurt and those sour fromage blancs.

Until one day, while strolling at the Galeries Lafayette Gourmet store, we stumbled upon one a lady giving out samples of home made fromage blanc with fresh strawberries. Y-u-m-m-y! But I've never bought any of that stuff since then because aside from being overly expensive, it's hard to find that home made stuff in normal supermarkets.

Yesterday while doing some grocery shopping I remembered that we still had left over red fruits stocked away in the freezer and thought that this would be a great time to make my own semi-homemade berry fromage blanc. And I was right!!

A super yummy, simple, easy, no fuss dessert:

What you'll need:
-fromage blanc
-honey
-fresh/frozen red berries
-a sprig of mint for decorating

What to do:
-pour fromage blanc in a bowl, add honey and sprinkle on fresh berries.
-mix and deguster


bon appetit!



peace & luv,
xc