May 26, 2015 GETTING SETTLED IN PARIS fresh oysters

May 26, 2015 Getting settled in in Paris

We had a wonderful day of art and food.  Yesterday when we arrived, we went shopping.  All the basics are within lone block of Kathryn and Mike’s apartment; a mini supermarket, a fish store, a butcher, a cheese shop, and right outside the door, a bakery.

So as Kathryn said, we provisioned up.  She had just arrived from Attending her daughter, Devon’s graduation from U of Va.s and Mike had not yet arrived from Wisconsin.

We bought groceries at the market one half block from the apartment,  then walked to the green grocer next door and bought heirloom tomatoes, fresh artichokes, and lemons.  We then walked across the street to the fish store and bought filets of a flat fish called chaiballet or something like that and a dozen oysters that the fish market opened for us and packaged in a tray.

We then walked down the street to the butcher and bought four rabbit halves, that the butcher cleaned and made ready to cook and a goose meat pate..

We stopped at the bakery just beside the apartment’s entrance and bought bread and I bought an Opera torte.

Then we returned to the apartment and made a cocktail sauce and ate the oysters and then ate cheese and bread and goose Meat pate for a late lunch at around 3:30.

We showered and took naps and got up around 8:30 and ate the pastry with a lovely rose scented tea that Mike had won is a drawing.

Bon Appetit