Especially when cooking for one, a visit to one of Paris' great open-air markets is like a reality show: you have to choose ingredients that look great and leave to later the task of figuring out what to do with them. For me, this is one of the most enjoyable things to do in Paris.
Today I went to the Bastille (Richard Lenoir) market near our apartment, and bought the following:
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| Half cooked crab |
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| Cèpe |
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| Turkey breast roast and chicken sausage |
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| Mankoush - Lebanese flatbread with za'atar |
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| Mirabelles and reine-claudes |
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| Scamorzza |
Together with items that I already had at home, I made lunch and dinner from these ingredients, in addition to munching some slices of scamorzza and wolfing down a bunch of tiny
mirabelles (my favorite fruit) and
reine-claudes (my second favorite).
Lunch consisted of oeufs sur le plat with white vinegar sauce, accompanied by the cèpe, which I dry-sauteed and then added a smidgen of butter, salt, pepper and thyme. (Followed with a piece of soft nougat from a Vietnamese
traiteur.)
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| Oeufs sur le plat with sautéed cèpe |
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| Soft Vietnamese nougat |
For dinner, I reheated the chicken sausage and roast turkey breast and the chicken sauce, and boiled and then sautéed
ratte potatoes, followed by a piece of camembert that I had left out all day and a square of Lindt chocolate (yes, I love Lindt chocolate even if it is not the most artisanal or exotic).
I am left with the mankoush, which I'll toast for breakfast, and the crab, which will serve nicely as tomorrow's lunch.
Bobby Jay
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