It starts with a baguette and wine,
Followed by one meal after another,
With increasing mouthfuls of sweetness. My cousins now know why my best friend is elastic.
What is your favorite meal?
French Fare
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28 responses to “French Fare”
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How funny, it’s my best friend too! Lol! Enjoying your blog as always. A late Happy Birthday to Annie!
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Corey, I don’t know how you manage to stay so slim with all that lovely food about. You seem to have constant vistors and it must be be very hard when taking them to all the lovely cafes, restaurants, etc to resist the amazing deserts.
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I don’t know if I have a favourite meal. I just like food. I like trying new dishes and flavours.
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Shhh! I’ll tell you a secret. Right now I am sitting on my kitchen floor, next to my open oven looking at the most delicious looking bread and butter pudding that I will be serving up shortly with vanilla ice cream. But just as I went to take it out a big segment of crusty bread fell off it. Truly! And so I am blowing on it while reading your blog and nibbling bits off it as sweet steam rises from it. Right now I’m the only one who has tasted it. Any minute little feet are going to run into the kitchen looking for me and asking if it is ready. So goodbye dear friend as I have my quiet indulgence and dream of elasticated waistbands….
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Oh, that is such a hard question! I looooove so many different things… but one very delicious treat I adore is fried soft shell crabs. It looks like spiders on your plate LOL but it is heavenly!
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Much love and many blessings
Love you
Jeanne -
BLT’s (made with fakin’ bacon’for vegetarians) and corn on the cob…yum!
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Sounds like a meal to remember, they are lucky to have you showing them the highlights of French living.
Food and I are old friends, I like all sorts of things. I guess my favorite would be a hotpot-like fondue, it’s a fun communal meal. -
Crepes, Jx
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Any meal that includes a dish seasoned with fresh garlic!!
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Favorite food in France or in the US? I love salads with goat cheese. I love pizza with goat cheese and pasta with goat cheese. I guess goat cheese is my favorite food. Add some wine then a chocolate mousse or creme brulee at the end — fantastique!
I ran 3 miles this morning in a fight against your friend elastic. -
For some reason, I’ve been eating egg salad sandwiches like crazy lately. Probably because my friend gave me 2 dozen fresh eggs from her chickens at the farm. And probably because I’ve been running so much lately that my body is starving for protein.
I wonder if I put it on a baguette, would it pass as French fare? -
bon appétit! This is a very visual and totally delightful story! Enjoy
Kiki – also with elasticated everythings…. -
I have as many faves as there are meals in a day… 🙂
I basically always like the one best I am just preparing or enjoying – preferably in happy, cheerful, friendly company. Than ANYTHING and everything tastes lovely; but I do admit, we are in a food-privileged country here – everything IS nice.
Thank you for that visual picture of elasticated waistbands; I acquired one too, long ago! -
Corey, I forgot to mention that I REALLY love that Champagne glass with the engraving…. How lovely!
Did I mention before that I LOVE your photographs?! They are half of the tremendous joy I get every time I permit myself to visit you!! Love, Kiki -
I love Hummus with strips of chicken, and a side of fresh veggies; tomato’s, olives, cucumber’s, and artichoke’s, cut in small bite size pieces. Pita on the side…and a glass of wine. Yum!!
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Farmboy Husband and I just got home yesterday, safe, sound and on-time, albeit tired — and, in Farmboy Husband’s case, sunburned lobster-red from two days on Paris’ open-air tour buses!
Based on our trip, our newest favorite meal has GOT to be the “Chelsea special” — fresh French baguette smeared with Camembert (Brie being a close second)!
You CANNOT BELIEVE how much better breads and cheeses are in France than in the US (even outside of Corey’s and my native California), perhaps in the case of the cheese because it may well have to be imported underripe.
And the bread? Ooh-la-la! The delicious flavor, superior texture, freshness… Not only that, in Paris these items cost only a fraction of what they do in the US.
So-o-o, we wound up eating bed-picnics for dinner in our hotel room several times during our trip. Besides the generous gourmet CARE-package that Corey prepared (which helped sustain us for several more days after we left Provence), we also were able to buy easy-peel sweet Clementines (oranges) at the produce stand outside our hotel, chestnut mousse yogurt at small grocery stores — and at bakeries, those not-to-be-missed sticky, buttery Kouign Amann pastries that Corey described on her blog earlier this year (so I knew to look for them — merci, Corey!):
http://willows95988.typepad.com/tongue_cheek/2011/01/in-search-of-kouignanman.html
We also were enthustiastic about lunch and dinner at Chez Corey/Yann, as it will come as no surprise to anyone here that, like a good Frenchwoman, Corey cooks simple foods using the freshest of ingredients — and hand crumbles her famous dried Provence herb mixture onto the appropriate dishes. At some point during our visit (maybe when I was showing Corey some Azores photos I’d brought along) Yann took Farmboy Husband out to a local café for a pastis, the anise-flavored liqueur. Surprisingly, a flash-mob of females of a certain age didn’t materialize to savor all that male pulchritude in one place ;-)))
Oh, and Corey’s right that Yann’s finger took a terrible mauling, coitadinho — although it looks like it will eventually heal more or less properly, with or without wifely kisses on it.
Also, as Corey posted a few days ago, Cassis is a beautiful and still-unspoiled place to walk around, as well as a soothing spot to sit at an outside café overlooking the Mediterranean whilst sipping the cold beverage of one’s choice.
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Erratum: 3rd sentence should open with:
You CANNOT BELIEVE how much better breads and cheeses are in France than in the US (even IN Corey’s and my native California)… -
My favorite “comfort” food is my Grandmother’s cream corn, potatoe salad, fried green tomatoes and her roast beef…(my Nannie learned to cook at age six when her mother and baby sister died…and she died at 92….GREAT COOK.)
If I’m in a restaurant it’s filet mignon w/charcoaled shrimp, baked potatoe and salad. -
Such pretty desserts!
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My favorite meal is goat cheese with walnuts, honey, all sprinkled with curry powder. I eat it for breakfast almost every morning…with cafe au lait and plain tea rusks.
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Tempting images, Corey!
I love soft-shell blue crab sandwiches, Maryland crab cakes
Roast beef and blue cheese sandwich at Firehook Bakery on Pennsylcania Avenue,
Spinach quesadilla at Tortilla Cafe next to Eastern Market on 7th Street SE (both in DC), fried catfish Po’ Boys with Cajun Remoulade at Louisiana Express and
Sushi at Tako Grill in Bethesda, Maryland. Fried green tomatoes at the little window shop in Dollywood, Tennessee. Do you want me to continue? 😉 -
If you are ever near San Diego, CA you have to stop at Jake’s Del Mar right on the beach. The layered shrimp cocktail is to die for — shrimp, lobster, avocado and orange chili sauce. It is indeed layered unlike the usual shrimp cocktail. Unforgettable, especially with the sound and view of the ocean right outside your window. And a glass or two of champagne of course.
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freshly baked apple pie with just picked fall apples
Peach Pie with just picked white peaches
Cherry Pie with real cherries
Lemon meringue pie
rice pudding
strawberry rhubarb crisp
Any french pastry or tart
Ricotta Pie from Mike’s Pastry in Boston’s North End..
Oh wait did you say favorite meal? -
You ARE familiar with the expression, “Life is uncertain, so eat dessert first,” aren’t you?
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Oh Corey you’ve made me hungry! I LOVE my stretchy jeans…I’d have to get a larger size if it wasn’t for that extra ‘give’ 😉 My favorite meal has to be tender BBQ’D Ribs with corn on the cob, baked potato and a good salad. Yum. My favorite dessert is Tiramisu. Well…anything sweet will do especially if it has chocolate of coffee in it! Hope your day is a good one.
Maura -
Since I live on the other coast, you are creating images of that shrimp cocktail that are sending me on the hunt for a recipe!! It sounds absolutely awesome!
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Char-grilled steak with asparagus and raspberry walnut salad. Those pictures are gorgeous! All your pictures are gorgeous!
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