Yes, I spoiled myself today! No, I shouldn't have! But sometimes you just feel like giving up you good resolutions ;-) Besides, it was an exceptional moment ; I was meeting a good friend of mine at Café de la Paix, a very chic café at the opera... The cake in the background is called a mille-feuille (thousand sheets) and it's to die for when it's well made (this one was, believe me!), for it is very hard to make - look up on Wikipedia. What about my diet? Well, I'll start Monday!
Sure looks tasty. Have fun with the diet!
ReplyDeleteYou're killing me. Both the photo and the food are delicious looking!
ReplyDeleteI just finished off a meringue, here in NY, that I bought in Paris. It was less fattening than your dessert, and less satisfying. I also found a half eaten macaron (Laduree) from Saturday in my tote bag. It is scary what I find in that tote bag sometimes. For anyone who is puzzled, I am a flight attendant, and not a rich whatever..... and whose company is going thru bankruptcy. I do eat well, tho!!
It looks pretty good,
ReplyDeleteSo I think you should.
A bit of fun
Will hurt no one.
But I won't try
to pronounce millefeuille.
Ooooh I think that's a little Fiat 500 in the background! J'adore.
ReplyDeleteI don,t think it hooey
ReplyDeleteOr even phooey
to try to rhyme feuille.
Why, I can't pronounce it either.
Ditto...to heck with the diet. It looks divine!
ReplyDeleteLove the photo, love millefeuille! This photo really brings instant memories of great cafes!
ReplyDeleteThe cafes have a great ploy,
when they tempt us with millefeuille. (I tried Jeff!)
Confession: I had Taramisu. Eric, you are not alone. Diet? what diet? I was talking to a friend of mine in Paris on the phone today. He told me that I have a good figure and he asked me if I did a sport. Hahaha - no way, not me. But, he is from an Italian/French family and there are many in France. Italian men don't like skinny girls.
ReplyDeleteBTW, it's a great "food photo". Perfect for hanging in the kitchen, because, even the kitchen needs good artwork on the walls.
Oh yeah, that's what mondays are for ;o)
ReplyDeleteAnd what a tempting and yummy photo.
Here in Canada they're called gâteaux Napoléon - which is both easier to pronounce and probably easier to rhyme with. E.g. 'marceau de l'odéon'....or something
ReplyDeleteUmm... Must be so tasty!
ReplyDeleteThat looks lovely! (but does it have chocolate?) Our downtown had a "Chocoholic Frolic" yesterday that was scrumptious! Basically, you walk around and have a treat at 20 different places to get more people downtown. I made it to 19 yesterday afternoon, but I think I only had something at about 5 or 6; one-bite yumminess!
ReplyDeleteAfter a rough week...six days of agony, I stopped at a wonderful bakery on my way home and also chose a "mille-feuille"...but with caramel!! Miammmm...délicieuse! Café de la Paix at the InterContinental Le Grand...was a huge American Expat hang out during and after the War...lovely setting mais très cher! Lucky you!! ;)
ReplyDeleteEric, what an eye you have for composition! The little red car is the perfect finishing touch:)
ReplyDeleteEverybody starts diets in Mondays ! ;))
ReplyDeleteMonday sounds like the perfect first day for a diet! :-)
ReplyDeleteI hope you find Sunday's meals equally enjoyable and savour every last bite of it.