Showing posts with label La Mere de Famille. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Mere de Famille. Show all posts

La Mere de Famille

This morning Mad About Macarons Jill sent me an email expressing expasperation with a very French,
"Ouuuuf !"
This page is from the brilliant, L'ABC des onomatopees par Bruno Gibert.
 I remembered I've not shown you any Parisian oeufs for Paques/Easter.
 La Mere de Famille on rue Cler, is one of my favorite chocolate shops but it's closed on Sundays (at 8am).
 Still the windows were full of delightful ouuuf/oeuf/eggy creations.
 Liqueur-filled little eggs as well as chocolate-filled eggs.
 Candy eggs sitting realistically atop a stack of hay gave a barnyardy feel to the window.
Unrealistically French lapin/rabbits think nothing of laying bird's eggs if they're chocolat.
 Quite simple eggs strung together for a decorative effect like xmas lights.
 Your classic foil-wrapped assorted chocolate eggs.
 A touch of whimsey - is it a chicken or an egg? It's both and sitting in an eggcup no less.
 When I returned from my early Sunday morning stroll French Girl was up and making breakfast.Her cashmere sweater is by Hector et Lola.com
 Was she making une omelette?

Pas de tout.
She was making a classic bacon and eggs once-a-week Dimanche petit dejeuner.
A possible Jean-Babtiste Chardin painting in the making no?

POISSON D'AVRIL!

In Venice BEAR was dreaming of fish...
But everyday the plat du jour was poisson. Poisson. POISSON!
Today in Paris it's Poisson D'Avril and the plat du jour is.
CHOCOLATE FISH!
You'll see signs all over town.
It's the day you play a trick/blageur on your nearest and dearest.
And secretly attach a paper fish on their back...ahem
Plus you MUST eat FISH!
Specially in season are ganache-filled chocolate 'sardines'.
Sachets and baskets of them await you.
Or marzipan fish of all ilk.
And species.
You can always settle for a giant chocolate fish filled with friture (even more tiny chocolate fish).
Poisson d'Avril is the day to get fish out of your system by eating as much as possible. A good place to get your fill is La Mere de Famille.
So get out the fish plates and glasses.
And put on those fish shorts while you're munching away...
BONJOUR POISSON D'AVRIL!

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