Guys, I had heard of the gastronomique delights of Paris many times. In fact, throughout my whole life I have been taunted with the culinary greatness that is Paris. The taunts were not wrong. The food there, it was just beyond divine!
And it was EVERYWHERE! I truly had never seen so many restaurants, markets, carts. You name it, if it had to do with food, it was present in the City of Light.
I was in elated awe.
And let me tell you, I tried as much as possible. Since we were walking miles and miles daily, I didn't even think about how much I was eating and drinking. I just indulged.
I mean, the smoked meat, caramelized onions, and cheese galette, topped with a fried egg was just out of this world flavor-wise. I think the owner of the crepery knew how enthralled I was with the dish, as he chased my waitress away and spent the rest of my time there checking on me. How could I not be happy, I had a salad with dijon vinegarette and a cafe Viennois.
I must say here, the French commitment to hectares of whipped not overly sweet cream on their drinks and desserts made my entire visit sublime. So, so YUM
In one bistro, I ordered three things that I knew I had to have from my many years in high school French class: chocolat chaud, black truffle mayo deviled oeufs, and croque monsieur.
Talk about maybe over extending myself, that was a rich meal on steroids. But holy tasty, rich food, divine happening. I cannot even describe how glorious it all was.
The hot chocolate was so thick that I could almost stand my spoon up in it, and so perfectly sweetened. I don't like overly sweet things, turns out I just have a very European palate when it comes to desserts and drinks. How it comes out of the kitchen is always perfect, at least it was when I was there. I never added any more of the offerred sugar and was completely and utterly delighted every time.
The black truffle mayo deviled eggs were on a different level. I had never tasted anything so rich and succulent, and the Croque Monsieur sent me into rich food overload. It was a good thing we walked about five miles after I ate all that gloriousness.
Can you tell I had a magnificent and delightful comestible trying time in Paris?
And that was just two meals worth of what I indulged in, there is so, so much more. Along with the sights, sounds, and adventures I had, because yes, it wouldn't be a Kat blog without some sort of random adventure thing happening. Of course things occurred.
But for now I will leave it here, I am still forty-two books deep in school for another couple weeks, then, hopefully, I will regale you all with some of the European adventure happenings!
And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's still amazed it didn't fall into the hands of Sasquatch whilst being toted around the wilderness iPhone.