Chez l’Ami Jean: Incredible Edible Adventures
Chez l’Ami Jean Part 2: The Feast This is the tale of one of my earlier visits to Chez l’Ami Jean with my friends, Maygan and Kyle, back in 2012. We left off when Jego was shouting “Bonsoir” to me, and I was wanting to look over my shoulder to see if he was saying […]
Chez l’Ami Jean: How a Meal Can Actually Change Your Life
Can we talk about the magicalness, nay, the magicosity of last night? As always, another successful meal at what is now officially my favorite restaurant, Chez l’Ami Jean. In many ways, my first meal there in May 2010 led to a series of events that ended with me living here in Paris. To cut straight […]
Snapshots 1.23-28
The past week in pictures… Monday Meeting on the Eiffel Tower in a private conference room with a view over the city. Pretty cool. Curry-infused wheat pasta Tuesday Open mic night in this tiny medieval cellar where people were wall to wall, sharing seats, sitting on the floor, crammed in everywhere. Definitely a fire hazard, […]
Unconventional Tree Decorating Tactics
Since I went home on Dec. 15th, it wasn’t worth buying and decorating a tree for a week or two. Luckily, Kyle & Maygan had a tree, and they were awesome enough to invite me over to decorate! Armed with a bottle of red and some hot cinnamon toast to get us in the Christmas […]
Snapshots 1.11-22
A few glimpses of the past week via iPhone… Eiffel interior Crazy hat lady strikes again New favorite recipe – cocoa, cumin, & cinnamon-rubbed flank steak You know you work in France when you have to set your half-eaten macaron down on your French press to help a customer On my way to meet Maygan […]
Baguette & Pizza Cookies
Pretend it’s December. If you want to hire me to make you unique frosted Christmas cookies, you can and should. Alexa and I decided we must have an evening for decorating cookies. She had a top secret family recipe, so we gathered the troops for an evening of cookie decorating, Christmas songs, hot spiced wine, […]
My French Thanksgiving
Since we’re still in the time machine…let’s talk about my first Thanksgiving in France! Well…I’ve spent one other Thanksgiving away from home, when I lived in France right after college, but it’s when I lived in the middle of nowhere, had no friends, and was sick on Thanksgiving, so my celebration involved eating microwave instant […]
Twist & Shout
Back in the Time Machine! We’re setting the time machine to November. (Begin squiggly lines for memory scene) The new apartment was appropriately house-warmed in its beginning weeks with lots of cooking & dinners & gatherings, my favorite being a Fat Tire sleepover where we had a home-made Twister board! Oh, Twister. I had forgotten […]
Resolved
2012: Resolved… to travel to see sunsets to picnic to read to take long bike rides to eat well to write letters to decorate to photograph to seek His face (My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek. -Psalm 27:8) to see the art at my fingertips to have […]
October Wrap-up: Good Friends, Good Food, Good Costumes
Em, Erin, & Kelly came to visit! It was so great to spend time with these girls after so long! While in Paris, we had a full day of pastry tastings around the city… we went on Jethro’s night bike tour… we ate some truly delicious meals… The first night they were in town, we […]