Paris Quinoa

French Girl is arriving in NYC this evening. She's staying for the weekend! She's bringing us fancy AOC Lentille verte du Puy
Fr Girl made us her own recipe of lentille+parsley+smoked salmon+boiled egg on Jour du Macarons and we've never looked back. We're hooked.

You could say Paris is as inundated with lentille + quinoa as New York was with leggy models last week.

Love the packaging even in Hypermarche Carrfour...

If you're balancing a pastry regime you'll need a stop at Cojean for a salade de lentille bio et green apple right?

MIYOU is another one inside Le Bon Marche.Love their rectangular designer boxes - wish they were not plastic.

More Cojean - salade BCP - beets, celeri, pomme verte + pistache

Have you tried Bob's Juice Bar in the upper Marais?

74 rue des Gravilliers 75003

Yup, I had the salade feculents(?) tres yum (5.50 euros) and leaving me guilt-free to wolf down some Berko tarts.

Do lentilles mix with culture? oui bien sur at le expo Odilon Redon cafeteria

Quinoa makes it to a lunchtime ardoise/blackboardI haven't tried Couleurs de Ferme-I'm always racing to the Metro - 33 avenue de la Motte-Picquet, 75007

I tried Coco Cooks on rue de Seine 75006 - love it. Just a block from Patisserie Gerard Mulot...

So far I haven't seen quinoa or lentille macarons in Paris but you never know.

Whoda thunk chocolate bars with quinoa? Only in Paris.

BONJOUR PARIS LENTILLES/QUINOA!

et bon weekend!!

Paris Thumbnails

Redon inspired still life, watercolor, 9" x 11"
There were a lot of requests to paint yesterday's Redon setup, so I did...
First to watercolor match the ribbon and boxes...
Surprise! A 5-month old framboise macaron lurks within one of the boxes!!
Used in another setup. No, I did not eat the macaron...yet.
Would you?

Were the rununculas chosen because of the Redon exhibit?

The pink box was sighted not so far from the Grand Palais expo...

I wanted to start off doing thumbnails like David Dewey did in Maine...

David paints his thumbnails on typing paper(!) so I tried it out....

Then just plain old tracing paper...

Then thumbnails on watercolor paper but these are not simple enough :(
But I forgot to look at the thumbnails I did that day until after the fact. A la prochaine/next time. If you're going to paint pink, pink, pink...

You need to eat a lot of watermelon! What shall I paint next PBers?

BONJOUR Paris THUMBNAILS!

Odilon Redon Prince du Reve 1840 - 1916

If you can manage to attend an exhibit the first day you're way ahead of the game on several counts...

I ran to the new Odilon Redon expo at the Grand Palais the day I was catching the overnight train to Venice...



It's usually not so crowded the first day - people are waiting for the reviews...

The entry floor was full of Redon's dark, moody etchings and chalk drawings...

But downstairs was fullon technicolor Redon.

Full of his mysterious fleurs et tetes/heads...

Redon's mastery of pastel is right up there with Degas...

One of my favorite Redons - this seashell. It's always a shock to see a painting in the flesh when you've seen too many reproductions...

There were sheets and sheets of floral drawings...

And this floral embroidered chair...

Redon's bouquets are delicieux..

When you leave a Redon exhibit, you're in a semi-trance like state...

You see Redon fleurs rouges right outside the Grand Palais...

Redon heads along the Champs-Elysees...

Doesn't this barquette of fig, apricot, tomate cerise look like edible flowers to you too?

I went home and set up my own 'Redon' - yet to be painted.

Perhaps today?

BONJOUR REDON!