French Friday Food Finds

Special (Saturday) Edition

Hi there! I realized too late after my last post that I never mentioned I would be absent for a couple of weeks this month. I was traveling in France with my husband and kids, visiting family and treating ourselves to our first extended vacation in exactly 3 years. It was glorious — as glorious as traveling with two young kids gets, anyway.

Since I did very little cooking for 10 days — boiling eggs was really the extent of it — this special (Saturday) edition of Friday Food Finds is a little different. Instead of my usual collection of recipes, I’m sharing this brief photo journal of some of the foods I ate while traveling.

Roasted Vegetable Galette at Papy aux Fourneaux

Salade Océane near the Sorbonne

Assiette Végétarienne at Château Kefraya

30 cm wheel of Brie at Le Golf de Céline en Brie

Selection of wines at Domaine des Huards

Infant Grapes at Domaine des Huards

A breakfast with pain complet, a croissant, and a brioche feuilletée from Boulangerie Masson in Dieppe

Apricots from a small marché at the Place Nationale in Dieppe

Moules Frites Marinières at La Frégate in Dieppe

Île Flottante at La Frégate in Dieppe

Clams for days at the port in Dieppe

A section of pain de campagne and a “cookie” with chocolate chips and flax seeds (made with local, stone-milled flours) from Aux Pains Populaires in Dieppe

That’s it for photos (I’m pretty terrible at documenting all my meals). But I will gladly share more about our trip if that’s of interest. We enjoyed a lot of family-friendly experiences, and I was really impressed with all the places we stayed during our trip (a hotel/apartment in the 14th arrondissement in Paris, a tiny house in the Loire Valley, and an Airbnb in Dieppe). Let me know if you’d like further details!

Have a great weekend and I will be back on Friday with new recipes from my reentry week.