Fat Kid Abroad- Paris Day Five: Cheesy Breakfast & Snails

Day five was yet another epic food adventure day.

Started it off right with a home cooked breakfast- monte cristos (left) and croque monsieur (right).  Made by yours truly.  Not bad, eh? 

I came down with a bit of a head cold, so I stayed home for most of the day.  Towards the end of the day, I started to feel better, so I headed out with the rest of the group for dinner.

We tried to go to pub recommended to me by a friend from law school called "The Pure Malt" (link to come)...but alas, it was closed.  We arrived around typical late American happy hour (7pm-ish).  Either they are closed on Tuesdays or people get drinks after dinner (which is pretty late- earliest you can eat at a restaurant is 8pm).  We stumbled into another random brassiere and got super cheap beer with complimentary potatoes.  (Pictures to come.)

We then went on to Chez Papa (link to come)- this place was really, really, REALLY good.  For now I will just post the pictures with limited description, but just take my word: it was DE-LIC-IOUS.  Delicious.  Two stubby, fat kid thumbs up on this place.

Escargot (snails)!!!! It was awesome!

Foie gras.  I'm going to hell for eating this, but god it was so good.  Three different varieties.  

My dish: Rump steak with a blue cheese sauce and potatoes on the side.  

Nick's dish: (need to get the French name) beef stew amazingness with potatoes.  

Caitlin's Dish (Clint ordered the same thing): sirloin with pepper sauce.  

Billy's Dish: "salad" is a loose term for this.  It mostly consisted of meat, bread, and cheese.  

Dessert: creme caramel.  

Fat Kid Abroad- Paris Day 4: Family Breakfast

Our team coach finally arrived! To celebrate, we cooked an amazing family breakfast.

I cannot explain how flipping cute our little apartment is....so we needed to have a legit breakfast to celebrate family style.

Scrambled eggs, oranges, orange juice, sausage, bread, brie, jam, coffee, and breakfast potatoes.

Afterwards, we wandered around for a bit before Clint took us to a somewhat bizarre pig themed restaurant (name to come shortly).

As you can expect, they serve a lot of pork.  Including this "plate of pork," quite literally.

My favorite part was the free cookies:

(Note: more commentary and links to come.)

Paris Day Three: Sunday Sweets & Soup

I'm continuing to have a great time exploring Paris, especially the food.  Seriously considering abandoning the whole law school thing and simply attending cooking school here in France.  I have a few more days until I need to decide whether I come home or not. In the meantime, here are the quickly accumulating backlog of pictures documenting my food adventures.

(Note: For the sake of time, I'm simply throwing up the pictures with limited commentary.  Will go back through and edit more once I have a bit more time.)

Macaroons! My first ever legitimate macaroons!  They were delicious!

I got them from this lovely little pastry shop in the Montmarte neighborhood.  The most adorable French young woman waited on me.

I also got a madeline and another pastry (I can't remember the name right now!)- also fabulous. 

Caitlin ordered this yummy quiche- also delicious. 

Most of Paris shuts down on Sunday nights, so we had slim pickings for dinner.  We are staying in a pseudo-Japanese neighborhood (at least a neighborhood with a very high concentration of Japanese restaurants), so we got noodle soup for dinner- cold weather = soup.  Very tasty.