french favs

So last night around 7pm, Stefan and I got a spontaneous invitation for dinner at our fabulous French neighbor's apartment.  She was having a French friend of hers over and was wondering if we wanted to join.

"Of course!  What can we bring?"
"Um, well, perhaps some cheese?"  (Because she knows that being the cheese obsessionados we are, we obviously have 4 extra special varieties waiting in our fridge to be dined upon.)
"You got it.  See you at eight."

That evening as we chatted about the complexities of French Champagne and the earthiness of a good Bordeaux (our fellow Frenchman was a distributor of fine French wines), we shared our cheese (French St Agur blue, French Comte, Cowgirl Creamery Mount Tam, and Stefan's favorite: Swiss Appenzeller), French foie gras, French ratatouille, and a cheese cake with homemade French raspberry coulis - all washed down with some French wine, of course. 

I felt like the most refined, cultured, worldly gal that ever was.
(Although I am not sure my French friends would have agreed as I unelegantly slurped my wine, stuffed my chomper with cheese, and laughed with my big, bubbly American laugh.)

There's just something about French things that makes me feel way more sophisticated than I really am.  You know what I mean?

So this Friday, I am bringing you my French favorites, so you might be able to enjoy the fabulousness of being a Francophile as well.

For eating:

french onion soup

For dessert:

silky, decadent old-school chocolate mousse

from smitten kitchen

For drinking:

french poire 76

from julip made

For wearing:

because who doesn't love paris in the rain?

and you can't go with stripes

For doing:

from oh happy day's 10 things to do in paris with kids

The essentials for a parisian picnic

from oh happy day!

macaroon tasting

from oh happy day!

For going:

montmartre, paris, france

And just for fun:

oh french baguettes, how I adore you

Have a fabulous (French) weekend!

xoxo

KK