KareeninFrance 14: Une Americaine in Paris (supplement)

I forgot to tell you about my adventure in cooking! Just before I left Paris to head back to LA for the holidays, my friend Phyllis and I planned and executed "an American Brunch in a French cafe". Every Sunday, the cafe around the corner from me, Cafe Titon, has a brunch menu. Phyllis and I tried it one day and the owner, Joel, asked us what we thought. We told him it was typically French (croissants, coffee, orange juice, soft boiled egg, cheese and charcuterie, salad, and fromage blanc with honey) and they needed something to set them apart from all of the other places to go for brunch. We suggested pancakes. For the next few weeks, we tasted pancakes his cook made (they were horrible......made with sarrasin flour that is used to make galettes), discussed the best recipes, helped him convert teaspoons and tablespoon measurements to ml, and I even made pancakes for him to try one day. In the end, she and I got suckered into making the brunch for 25 people (all at the same time!). We made blueberry scones, hashbrowns, pancakes, fried eggs, bacon, and this was served with the typical fromage blanc with honey (we were worried there wasn't enough food.....to only have everyone tell us it was too much). So, in my 30 years, this was the first time working in a professional kitchen. And, I don't think I liked it very much.

Oh, but we got lots of compliments on our cooking.......and are supposedly the talk of the town.

Kareen