On Saturday, I returned to the FÊTE DU VENTRE,
This year I bought a demi-kilo of Normande-grown champignons de Paris. Last year I just admired. A lot of scrubbing 🧽 this morning.
I bought a bag of dehydrated framboise (10€) I have no idea what to do with them but it seemed like a good idea ☺️
You feel like you stepped into a jolly Pieter Brueghel painting 🖼️
And razor clams with parsley & garlic 🧄 (26€).
ROUEN Ã TABLE, taking place in front of the cathedral.
Claude Monet painted it more than 30 times. 🎨
With all kinds of fancy dinners, tastings and MOF chefs on the menu.
At that point I couldn’t look 👁️ at any more food and went inside for a few moments of peace and quiet 🤫
Then a 5-minute walk to musée de Beaux Arts for a quick look before my train back to Paris.
Just a few nights before, a grand dinner was held here for ROUEN À Table. Rouen is a charming town with mostly pedestrian streets, well worth a day visit, a mere 2 hours outside of Paris.
Carol, not only do I love your art, but your explanations of all things French is, at the very least, a University Doctoral Thesis! Thank you! Angela Muller
ReplyDeleteOh my Angela ❤️ You do know how to make my day ☺️
DeleteAn excellent post! I am heartened to see all the good attention that gets paid to local food.
ReplyDelete100% MADE IN ROUEN (or nearby) 🍎
DeleteThat marché looks incredible!! 😍 D.
ReplyDeleteDying to go there, during a festival of some type. Once again, you Carol!
ReplyDeleteThat was thank you Carol 🤪
ReplyDeleteCarol, what a wonderful post! I was just in Rouen in September! What a lovely town with so many half-timber houses and a fantastic market at Place Saint Marc. Thank you for including the paintings - I feel like I've been a part of history!
ReplyDeleteYes, it’s beautiful, historic and feels very livable. Less stressful than Paris. And cleaner too. Nice big poubelles, unlike Paris’ hard-to-find tiny plastic trash bags. Many nice places to sit down too and not all commercial. Cosy.
DeleteFunny you mention the poubelles - I was so impressed, I took a photo of a trio of them - different colours for different wastes!
DeleteYou take us to the best places!!!! Thank you!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis was a fabulous post Carol. I always feel from your photos and descriptions like I was there with you. I enjoy when you include paintings/history and I personally love local food markets/celebrations. Merci for sharing it all with us. -Suzanne P.
ReplyDeleteYou are so welcome Suzanne ❤️ It’s fun for me too 😀
DeleteHeat the framboises, add sugar if needed, smush ‘em, cook for a little while and pour over vanilla ice cream = delicieux.
ReplyDeleteFramboise over vanilla ice cream 🍨 YUM !
DeleteI'm 85 now, but one of my college classmates was named Sherry Rouen. I remember asking her about her last name. She told me that it was a small town in France. Thanks for taking me there.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great name…Sherry ROUEN !
DeleteCarol, you keep making IT happen for all of us who love seeing the simple to the magnificent (usually the former qualifies as the latter as well) so thank you again!
ReplyDeleteHow fun! You can top your yoghurt with the dehydrated raspberries ;-) Love the photo you took at the market! Looks like a Dutch still life paining <3 Xx
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a good idea SOLLI. They said for cakes 🍰 too
DeleteWhat a great visit. I would love to visit a town like this. Eat my way through it all. Lynne
ReplyDeleteCarol, NOTHING makes me hungrier that your posts. Nothing. Judy
ReplyDeleteI enjoy all your posts, but I especially love when you showing paintings that match your photos. Wonderful!
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