Bûche 🪵 de Noël and other things

 

Yesterday,  while running 🏃‍♂️ from the copyshop 

To Poste 📮to the bank 

Salon du Chocolat - Paris

 

Well, the Salon du Chocolat was fun 🍫

Of course I didn’t resist any chocolate 🍫 offerings until at least an hour in.

Paris Turkey

Who says there isn't turkey in Paris? 

Just try Le Bon Marché's l'arbre Noel shop on the 2nd floor. Only 15€. A steal for one of these babies.

Most Parisians will be timing their turk-turks with a macaron kitchen timer c/o Monoprix 4,90€

And what will he/she be wearing dans la cusine? Maybe this.

Or this (Mrs. Perfect at the oven).

Driving...

To Grandmere's maison?

Much better to walk. The weather's fine.

Preferably in your Chanel pumpkin sneakers costing about 2 years worth if daily Haribo gummy bears.

There are plenty of pumpkins in Paris. Not to worry.

And you can eat yours inside a Popelino choux (cream puffs) 1,90€.

Want to have your turkey out? I saw this at a restaurant over the bridge.

Or DIY turkey (dinde) at home c/o Fleury Michon for even less.

I had the perfect chaser to a heavy turkey dinner last night c/o Fauchon inside the bulle (bubble) at l'Hotel du Collectionneur 57 rue de Courcelles 75008

A witty Bûche de Noël of lit candles and red Christmas balls called 'Éclat de Lumiere'. (Yes, that's a peonie petal lampshade in Fauchon's signature hot pink).

Inside: passion fruit, mango, white chocolate, creamy milk chocolate mousse, Tahitian vanilla with a caramel and passion fruit lollipop, make for a light, slightly acidic palate cleanser to a heavy meal be it Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.

Naturally there was Fauchon bubbly served inside the bulle. Fauchon will do desserts for Afternoon tea in the bulle. I hope to try them.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING PBers !

CHEERS Carolg

Let Them Eat Bûche de Noël

 You can not go two steps in this town
 

 Without tripping over a log
 

 A chocolate log or a bûche de Noël
 

 Which evidently extends its welcome well past Noël into the celebration of Epiphany with a French king cake or galette des rois featuring yummy almond paste frangipane stuffed puff pastry and a surprise lurking favor inside but that's for a later post.
 

  
The variations on a theme are endless in Paris. Traditional bûche is made from a genoise or other sponge cake, generally baked in a large, shallow Swiss roll pan, frosted, rolled to form a cylinder, and frosted again on the outside. The most common combination is a basic yellow sponge cake, a rolade, frosted and filled with chocolate buttercream; however, many variations on the traditional recipe exist, possibly including chocolate cakes, ganache and espresso or other flavored fillings.

  
This macaron-decorated bûche de Noël looks like a kid's choo choo train to me.
 

  
Two choo choos meetup at a crossing.
LOOK OUT!

 Most of them resemble a bed with a headboard, footboard with stuff thrown on top...

 A marron glace serves as a pillow from elegant des Gateaux et du Pain.

Inside:La châtaigne en jeux de textures, amertume d'un miel d'arbousier : biscuit moelleux à la pâte de marrons, châtaignes entières « cuisinées », caramel et fleur de sel, crème douce-amère au miel d'arbousier, mousse de châtaignes.

 You can easily buy just a slice from a boulangerie

 An Austrian bûche slice at Angelina.
 

 Complimentary colors red + green for this single slice. Pastry chefs are artistes and have a color wheel onhand I'll bet.

 There are even whole mini bûche de Noël(buchette) for mini Parisiennes.

I have yet to taste a bûche de Noël but when in RomeParis...

Have you eaten bûche de Noël? Did you love it?
Should I?