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#89

#90

 Here are a group of artists' show cards that I minimally altered.

I'd spent some time cutting out images, since I spend a lot of time sitting around these days. It keeps me from nodding off to sleep!

 

 

#91

I'm starting to feel more myself, now that I'm going out for physical therapy, and getting stronger. This is a very good feeling, to state the obvious.

I want to share with you some of the lovely trays my honey brought to me for various meals.

breakfast

dinner

 Healthy cookies by my friend Mary.














This is a dinner of food from various friends. Lentil soup from Roshan, with her pasta salad in it, veggie tarte from Beth Ann, cheese spread from Eileen.

dinner

 Here's another dinner with the soup, and cheese spread, plus chickpeas and a bean spread. And my honey gave me 2 choices of crackers!

breakfast

Here's a simple breakfast on a day when I
didn't feel like eating much.

dinner

 Here's another lovely dinner, with the veggie tarte, some of Roshan's rice, salad, and left overs from my birthay dinner (Japanese food.)

You can see that I didn't go hungry during the early days of my recuperation.

And my honey presented everything so appetizingly, didn't he?

Now I'm able to go downstairs and eat at the kitchen table. Yay.

Paris, food

In the morning, when we don't have a baguette, this is what our petite dejeuner (breakfast) looks like. The thin croquantes are very light and airy, the preserves our favorite Bonne Maman (which has become very expensive back home,) cafe au lait, and jus. A simple petit'dej.

The other day, we met up with some people at Le Loir dans le Thierie (the Dormouse in the Teapot) for dessert. The place is nearby in the Marais on rue des Rosiers. It has mismatched chairs and tables and is very cozy. Here is a fruit crumble and a lemon tart with LOTS of meringue.


When we order a meal, I usually order un carafe de l'eau (tap water.) There is a push to get Parisians to drink more tap water (fewer plastic bottle waste material.) This bottle shape is quite nice and I saw ones like this in the window of the historical society around the corner. On the carafe is printed: l'eau de Paris. I might need one as a souvenir! This carafe was at the Cafe Branley, at the Musee du Quai Branly. The lunch I had there was excellent. Quenelles of polenta on a bed of mushrooms, served with a salad & crispy "bread." This cafe is outside of the museum itself so you can stop in even if you don't go to the museum. I recommend it if you're in the area of the museum/Eiffel Tower.

Diner last night, Lunch today

Last night, we went to see a wonderful concert at Cite de Musique. I'll be putting some of Chuck's photos of the site on Flickr. We came back into our neighborhood and realized that we were hungry. It was 11:30 p.m. We decided to get carry out pizza from Pizza Momo. It was delicious.

Today, for a late lunch, I brought in a piece of asparagus and avacodo tarte for Chuck and I to share. For dessert, a roulade with tiny chocolate chips and pistacchio paste. Doesn't it look like an escargot?

yum! berry tarte!

Last night we had a family pot-luck, which was a really fun thing on such a hot evening, our house was cool and the use of the outdoor grill minimal, some veggie burgers and some non-veggie hotdogs. Interesting food appeared! A refreshing dessert from Phyllis' Ethiopian adventure, a delish quiche from Sara, the fave peanut noodles from Noah and much more... but the really, really big treat of the evening was the blackberry (organic from our berry CSA) tarte made by none other than CHUCK!! The recipe he used was Clothilde's Tarte aux Myrtilles. The picture I took is, what else, blurry, but notice how Chuck's tarte looks just like hers. Why am I making so much of this? Well, Chuck doesn't cook or really know his way around kitchen appliances, but he's doing it. Enjoy!