Internship-for-a-honeymon report - Street food

Soupe à l'oignon gratinée / French onion soup / Sopa de cebola gratinada

One of the best things about Paris is its multiplicity of cultures, which allows us to see, try, listen and experience many things about other countries without actually having to go there.

One of the best things about Paris is the enormous offer of street food, which includes national and international gastronomy that people can eat during the day, whether they're going to work or they're visiting around.

 So one of the best things about Paris is that you can easily try many different flavours, picking up snacks in a boulangerie or in one of the markets you can find in almost every neighborhood. You just can't be picky nor germophobic! 

Viennoise au chocolat - I really love this sweet bread with chocolate chips
Adoro este pão doce com pepitas de chocolate

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Tomato tower

Saturday dinner is my favourite one. You have spent the day doing whatever you like and, as a bonus, you have plenty of time to prepare a nice dinner and to enjoy it for as long as you want. It's a great way to relax after and before a week full of work, where your time is counted and you have almost no time to properly appreciate your meals.

That's why I put an extra effort to this saturday's meal and started out with a vegetarian appetizer that went great with a glass of red wine.

Ingredients:

1 or 2 plum tomatoes

1 big chunk of a salty goat cheese

Fried onions (from Ikea)

Some basil leaves

Recipe:

Wash the tomatoes and the basil leaves. Slice the tomatoes and place them on a plate. On top of each slice put a bit of cheese, one tea spoon of fried onions and, for a perfect combination of tastes, one or half of a basil leaf.

Don't add any salt, but you can't say no to a pinch of pepper.

Lemon mousse

For a cosy dinner at a friendly couple's place I made lemon mousse, by request.

It's a very soft but sweet dessert, with a nice citrine fragrance and very fresh, good for those hot summer days.

There is still a very small cup in my fridge, waiting for me to take care of it.

Ingredients:

1 big can of condensed milk or 2 small/regular cans

4 lemons

2 plain yoghurts

Recipe:

Grate the zest of two big lemons and squeeze the juice of the four of it.

In a bowl pour the condensed milk, the yoghurts and the lemon juice and mix it until you get a creamy mixture. Then place it in a nice serving bowl and pinch the lemon zest on top of it.

Take it to the fridge for at least two hours.

Serve it cold and enjoy.

Internship-for-a-honeymoon report - Crepes

Au P'tit Grec - The most delicious salty crepes

One of my favourite components of tourism is the local gastronomy, which includes all the foreign restaurants and markets that immigrants have in every city.

For my internship-for-a-real-honeymoon I went with my husband to Paris, where we met five years ago, to relive every place, every street, every corner, every smell and every memory and it was a very pleasant weekend. One of the best things about going back to a place you know so well is that you don't have to get into every single museum, you don't need to make a pit stop in every single touristic point and you can choose the ones you already know you like the best. And that's what we did.

We also knew where and what we wanted to eat or to taste, so it was a high caloric trip, but also very tasty.

There's a very nice place in Rue Mouffetard called Au P'tit Grec, where a group of five greek men make sweet and salty crepes but I, for one, think it's a shame to go there and not trying at least a salty one, since they are so good and so big they can be very nice dinner. I had the same I always did: mushrooms and lots and lots of emmental cheese; and my husband tried one with egg, ham and also lots and lots of emmental cheese. They all come with lettuce, tomato and onion, but this time I didn't want the tomato.

It was an explosion of taste I hadn't felt again in four years and that I was craving for, for a long time.