Yum, yum, yum! Mmmmm. Ooooh. Mille feuille!
The boulangeries (bakeries) and patisseries of Paris are slices of heaven. We had croissants for breakfast every day and Damjan introduced me to this delicious, delicious treat called ‘mille feuille‘. It cost €2.25 and was made up of (from the bottom up):
- thin croissant-like sheet of pastry
- light, yellow custard
- pastry
- that glorious custard again
- pastry
- oh, this was the best bit — white icing with chocolate swirls, sweet but not cloying, so perfect.
I have never had something delicious like that, where you bite it and every chew is wonderful and then it goes down your throat. Then you bite it again and you’ve realised that between swallowing, pausing and biting again, you had forgotten how yummy it is.
Between the two of us, we ate nine crêpes:
- apricot confiture (apricot jam)
- fraise confiture (strawberry jam)
- champignon, ouef (mushrooms, egg)
- jambon, gruyere (ham and gruyere cheese)
- beurre, sucre, cannelle (butter, sugar, cinnamon)
- Nutella, fraise confiture (Nutella, strawberry jam)
- ouef, fromage (egg, cheese)
- marron, chantilly (chestunut cream, whipped cream)
- Grand Mariner flambée
There’s much more to say, all the touristy bits beside food. I’ll get back to you on that. Damo and I are baking bread at the moment. Somehow, the bread in England just doesn’t satisfy after the French baguettes and flûtes. We’ve resorted to baking our own.
In other news, yesterday, Damjan and I went to see Les Misérables and Stomp on London’s West End. Both were bloody fantastic. I was afraid Les Miz could not live up to the hype but it did. I got teary.
Nine crepes! Not a bad effort at all, I’m impressed. There is a crepe place on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy – apparently very good. I’m inspired to try now.
Les Mis is my favourite musical of all time — it’s the only musical for which I’ve bothered to look for multiple recordings! I always wanted to play Eponine (but doesn’t everyone…).
Well, (a) no-one can ever sing Cosette’s songs; they’re far too high and (b) Eponine gets to sing “On my Own” and “Little Fall of Rain”. What can compete with that?
Joan, after reading your entry, I’m buying mushrooms tomorrow. I’m planning a day-long feast for all the Easter orphans on Sunday (except Carlo, Vera and Joel; you guys aren’t Easter orphans but you can come because you’re cool) and I’m making crepes. I hadn’t decided on all the savoury fillings yet, but I think mine will definitely have mushrooms (and cheese and avocado and bacon and mmmm garlic&onion, in some combination).
I’m kiiiiiind of an Easter orphan! My dad’s going back up to Albury tomorrow. But I’m glad you think I’m cool anyway. 😛