Saturday Six #9

Food-oriented Saturday Six!

I am still at Blissdom but was still able to find time to catch up on some blog reading. It is so inspiring to be around other bloggers, it is an affirmation of what I like best about this “hobby.” I learn, I share, I absorb and I know it will make me a better writer and reader.

Blissdom happens to be in the same hotel as a tea party convention where Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker [tonight], so the crowd here at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel has been interesting.  I have been here before, more than thirty years ago when we were stationed at Fort Know, Kentucky.  We came to Nashville for a vacation and went to Opryland (an amusement park), The Grand Ole Opry (where I think I even saw Minnie Pearl) and the home of Andrew Jackson at The Hermitage, which is my favorite presidential home.

But since I am knee-deep in blogginess, let’s move on to this week’s picks!  Sorry I have to warn you they are very food-centric this week!

[1] Amy over at God I Love Paris (God I love that name!) had me drooling when she described the simple sandwich that a marché-stand-entertainer made her.  There is such complexity in simple things and a simple sandwich can be a gourmet meal when it is made with fresh ingredients and care.  I think one of the things I miss most about France is our Sunday jaunts to the marché where my husband and I would buy a fresh rotisserie chicken, vegetables and bread and have a wonderful Sunday lunch that was beyond tasty.  Le sigh.

[2] I love food. Is there anything better?  Ok, maybe love, but after that, it’s food! So one of my secret obsessions is food blogs.  If I were to watch TV I am sure I would keep the Food Network or some other cooking show on all day, because I could never get bored with food.  I don’t watch TV, but I still buy No Reservations on iTunes, Anthony Bourdain is my hero, although someone recently told me he is selling out a bit on his current season, so I will have to see what is up with that.

One of my favorite blogs is Lunch. I visit it twice a day to check out what the two architects who run the blog ate for lunch and what they had for their 4:00 snack.  It takes me 5 minutes or less and makes me happy.  I only lurk at these food blogs, drooling at the pictures, I never comment, nor do I really care about recipes, my husband is the [awesome] cook in the house.  But this week on the Noble Pig there was a post on Deviled Eggs that had me at hello.  I love eggs and I love deviled eggs, but I have never seen it this way.  I could probably eat a dozen without blinking an eye!

[3] I have mentioned crepes before in my last Paris road trip.  Crepes are yummy and I think my husband’s version are the best.  However I would love to discover more places to eat them in Paris.  My friend Lydie over at Travel is More Fun With Kids wrote a post listing some of the best places for crepes in Paris, so she has done some of the footwork for me!  It is hard to mess up a crepe, but why not chance it?  Meric Lydie!

[4] One of my dreams is to go to France during truffle season and eat an entire meal with every course having something to do with truffles. It will happen some day I know, but in the meantime I will have to satisfy my fantasies by reading and re-reading David Lebovitz’s post “Truffle Hunting.”

Tired of food?   How about these?

[5] I don’t read Danielle Steel books, I think I may have read one or two a long time ago, but not in many, many years.  However, Danielle Steel lives part of her time in Paris and blogs about it, so that interests me.  I really like some of her posts, like this week when she blogged about Fashion Week and going to the Chanel show.  She provides a great backgrounder on the history and her opinion of the current state of haute couture while reflecting on the possibilities of some of her thoughts might be just age.  It was well written and I liked it.

[6] This is a cheat because there were two posts this week from Julie over at Writing Roads that I really liked. “Having the last word” because I love any great story that can be tied to Sex and The City, and the post is just damn good.  And  “What is means to take a little bite (or twenty)” because it is just quintessentially me and I could relate.

Thanks for playing along!  Got any posts you want to share from the last week?  Please do!

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