My Fav French Food: Snack and Junk Food

France is of course known for there really good food so it is only fitting that I share all mine.  These are mostly snack type food and junk food, but still awesome. 

These are especially awesome cookies that taste like brownies.  They have bits of chocolate in them that melt in your mouth.  It is so hard to not eat and entire pack of these at once. 

This is a nice Kebab Sandwich with yummy frits (french fries) and of course my favorite soda, Fanta.  Kebab stands always make the best frits, but Orleans doesn't have nearly as many of them as Avignon did.  

This is my favorite pastry I have tried so far...and I've tried a lot of them.  I believe it is called a Noisettine, and it has a crust made of nuts (I'm guessing hazelnuts) and then layers of chocolate mouse and topped with dark chocolate curls on top.  This ones comes from my favorite bakery, also pictured below.  

My favorite bakery so far.  It's right by the Cathedral and it not only has some of the best goodies, but also the best prices.  The only thing better than yummy food, it yummy CHEAP food. 

To the right are some of my favorite snacks.  Fanta is way better here because it is less sugary and taste more like citrus since it is made with real orange juice.  It doesn't have that fake sugar taste.  BBQ Lays somehow taste better here as well.  Then they have these yummy cookies that are like short bread filled with nutella. soooo good.



These are some of my favorite things to eat as and alternative to dinner.  Some Chorizo Sausage, chevre cheese with a fresh baguette.  Then some Nutella and strawberry jam for dessert and soda to wash it all down with.

Turkey Day in Another Pays (That's French for Country)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

I have to admit I was kind of bummed to not be able to home for my first Thanksgiving in our new home, but overall having Thanksgiving in another country was cool and pretty interesting.  It was interesting simply for the fact that finding the stuff to make tradition Thanksgiving treat can be difficult.  A bunch of the Americans from the program decided to have a pot luck dinner to celebrate and of course we invited some French friends and other assistants from other parts of the world to witness what an American Thanksgiving is all about.  I specify American Thanksgiving because as I recently learned that Canada has their own Thanksgiving that is about a month before the US.  Fun Fact.

I took the someone easy way out and brought wine for making vin chaud (hot spiced wine) and I brought a new found favorite French dish, Piemontaise, which is pretty much just French potato salad and uses the usual potatoes, eggs, mayo, etc, as well as ham and a decent amount of pickles and vinegar.

We had the pot luck over at Rachel's new place.  She got so lucky and found a great house right in the city center (just a few blocks from where I lived) and she gets to live with French roommates.  Totally jealous.  She was nice enough to bake the Turkey and she also made these awesome roasted carrots with honey and orange zest or something.  So Yummy.

It was just a good night filled with good food, fun and friends.