{"id":1821,"date":"2014-02-19T23:16:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:16:09","slug":"paris-day-15-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"Paris Day 15 (Recovery)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We slept in until about 0830 this morning then sat around and did a whole lot of nothing.<\/p>\n

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We were trying to recover from both our trip to Senlis (see previous days post) and wine and cheese (our dinner, after the big lunch in Senlis) with friends in Saint Germain des Pr\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

We headed out of here after lunch time, we had croissants for breakfast and 2 pots of coffee and were skipping lunch in anticipation of dinner at La Cordonnerie tonight (Hugo’s restaurant).<\/p>\n

We took the bus over to the 6th arrondissement to the Jardins des Plantes to walk around<\/p>\n

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and enjoy a sunny day, although the wind was a bit blustery.<\/p>\n

We walked, took photos and enjoyed the gardens for about 2 hours and then headed over to Bon Marche and the La Grande Epicerie de \u00a0Paris. \u00a0We found that both store have been completely refinished on the inside and some places it was still a work-in-progress.<\/p>\n

We were truing to decide bus or metro on the way home but<\/p>\n

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chose the bus because there is more to see and it was still light outside.<\/p>\n

When we arrived home we poured a glass of wine, ros\u00e9 for Pat and Cote du Rhone for Mike, sliced up two Comice pears and some comt\u00e9 cheese for a light snack, the pears were excellent. \u00a0We’re still working on a piece of 30-month old comt\u00e9 also<\/p>\n

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delicious.<\/p>\n

We’re now catching up on blogs and Facebook (Pat) and anticipating dinner.<\/p>\n

Report back later!<\/p>\n

Dinner was great Pat started with a salad of fresh-water shrimp, apple and a citrus dressing, I had the fricasseed mushrooms with a rosemary cream sauce and some truffle<\/p>\n

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reduction, both were excellent. We followed the first course with Cod for Pat poaches in light citrus sauce and then finished with a citrus butter sauce, very nice plate. Pat of course asked Hugo<\/p>\n

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to substitute fries for the rice and it also was accompanied by saut\u00e9ed zucchini.<\/p>\n

I opted for the leg of rabbit that was braised with carrots and onions, so tender you did not need a knife which had a rich rabbit stock, scalloped potatoes and \u00a0poached carrots.<\/p>\n

We ove indulged with wine, Cote de Provence, two bottles, and passed on dessert but not before we made a reservation for the following Wednesday night. We spent a long time chatting with Hugo about food, his mom and his dad, his dad died back in 1997 and Hugo’s struggle with taking over the restaurant after his dads death. \u00a0Valerie made a short appearance on her way to take their dog for a walk. We met a couple from Wyoming who grow organic wheat and were stopping in Paris on their way home from a trade who in Germany.<\/p>\n

We depart the restaurant at about 11:30 PM, the bus had stopped running so we jumped the metro for the ride home.<\/p>\n

Hugo in the Kitchen and the folks from Wyoming getting Bananas Flame.<\/p>\n

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