January Diet

Will you be eating salade today?

AND tomorrow? 

And perhaps all of January? 

Wouldn't it be nice if this month's salades could be Paris take-out from MIYOU? 

Or La Cantine at Merci? 

Miam...miam 

MIYOU again - shrimp, quinoa, pomegranate, rocket. 

Saumon + salade in St. Germain-en-Lay 

I lurve Rose Bakery's mixed salade plate. Not a bad way to make up for all the marshmallows and gingerbread of December.

Is salade des fruits allowed on the January diet?

Bisoux Market

You might think you're in Paris if you saw these croissants... You might think you were at Balthazar in Soho...You're not. You're at the new Bisoux Market in the Delta Terminal at LaGuardia Airtport.

Bisoux is loaded with French classic sweeties like Barnier lollies...

And typical Provencal calissons d'Aix...

Dragees anyone?

My favorite French sweet - sticks of guimauve/marshmallow.

Bisoux has savory French things to eat like salade Nicoise.

I shall be diving with the lobsters...

Into this tub at The Slipway in Thomaston, Maine...

I really ate steamed clams and mussels. I'm saving lobster for later..

BONJOUR BISOUX & MAINE!

La Croix Verte

Have you also wondered why ALL pharmacies in Paris are green/verte? Have you found taking pictures of them addictive?

Happy as a Clam

BONJOUR PB readers!

Day #3 in Paris. Still beautiful! And still happy as a clam :) Some men follow beautiful women in the street.

I follow Parisien doggies... Sometimes, I take a picture and have no idea what is going on in front of the camera at that particular moment until I look at it later.This is one of those. Morning at Cafe de La Mairie on Place St. Sulpice in the 6th eme... By chance I passed this facade...
Where is the dog?No dog - I made it up :) I stopped in at Passage Jouffroy to look at the toy facades in the window of Pain d'Epices... I had planned to go to Vienna this trip to visit Mozart and Merisi.
Then I got obsessed with Parisien facades.
This is the closest I'm getting to Vienna... I ate a not very Viennese lunch here.
But fresh & healthy.

One must always have balance when traveling.

Too much healthiness is not a good thing...Yum

Someone else's nature morte.

I shoulda bought one of these on rue de Cherche-Midi...

I always flip for fallen rose petals at La Nom du la Rose

(on rue Tournon 6th eme)

Another irresistable French doggie from I don't know where.
What is the compulsion to take photos of all images of the Eiffel Tower?
Do you have it too?

Especially when you have the Eiffle Tower right outside your window!?

BONJOUR MERCREDI!

Salade Composee

When PB readers ask me where to eat in Paris I immediately think of Restaurant yaourt and Restaurant Salade Composee. You can pretty much depend on getting an excellent salad at most cafes.Jette had this salmon salad at Cafe Journaux on on rue Rambuteau , 75003 in the Marais.And M. had this salade composee. But what is it?
Julia Child says, "A handsomely arranged combination salad can be the solution for what to serve at an informal spur-of-the-moment meal. The trick is to toss all of the elements separately in vinaigrette, letting some marinate for 10-20 minutes if they need to take on flavor.

Then arrange your work of art, each part of it is perfectly seasoned." Salad composee at most museum cafes is a work of art and tasty to boot. My salade at Musee Jacquemart-Andre. Just be sure to get a seat early! Like by 11:30. The line is horrendous :(

And a Thai prawn salad at the Musee Guimet cafe.

A salade Nicoise at the Salon du Chocolat, because a girl needs to cleanse her palate after multi lashings of 70% chocolate.

A fast salade composee at CO-JEAN'S chain of eateries.

My favorite salad in Paris is at Au Vieux Colombier Brasserie with a giant marinated artichoke tossed on top at 65, rue de Renne 75006.

This sounded interesting on the Delicabar menu at Bon Marche - Salade toute orange.

And turned out to be dreadful :(

Carrot scrapings on top of mushed orange lentils in an orange bowl!?

Oh and it cost ELEVEN EUROS too!

I thought this salad "shake" in Switzerland looked intriguing.
My sister just got back from Paris on Sunday.
"How was the dollar?" I asked, since I'm leaving in a week and a half.
A low moan came through the phone.
"Horriblemente!"
"TAKE PROVISIONS!", she said
"Provisions?"
"What?" says moi.
"Yes. Take smoked salmon, sardines.TAKE APPLES!""OK" says moi

Wouldn't you just know I got this email from Fauchon today.
This is NOT what I will be eating in Paris -

Fauchon diamond Easter eggs, but I'll be doing plenty of looking and shooting, unless they arrest me - then I get to eat free French prison food.Eats, Shoots and Runs

Just forget the "Eats" part of the equation.

I think I'll be able to afford a l'eau mineral at Cafe Le Select..well I hope so.
If you care about PB, SEND APPLES VITE!

And if you want to make your own salade composee check out ehow.com