Allez-y Belles Bananes!

It was a marché morning for me and Copain.  

4 kilos of pears

2 kilos of clementines

2 kilos of onions

Lots of potatoes

1 kilo of carrots

3 pineapples

6 zucchinis

3 persimmons (kaki!)

2 heads of lettuce

1 bunch of coriander

...and 5 belles bananes!!

The guy selling us all of our wonderful goodness kept yelling at the marché-goers...Allez-y belles bananes! Allez-y belles bananes! Come on! Beautiful bananas! Go ahead! Beautiful bananas! We tried to order our clementines with a straight face, but Copain couldn't take it anymore.  He burst out laughing as we paid 2.50 for our marché loot.  Then, for the entire marché morning, I got to listen to Copain's impression of the stand holder...

Allez-y! Belles Bananes!!

Allez-y! Belles Bananes!!

That guy should definitely go into marketing - we've been singing his jingle allllll day.

For Copain - Tout à 1 Euro!!!!

Copain is in London this weekend, so he put me in charge of doing our Sunday marché shopping (Bah!!).  See, normally, while I sit on the couch with coffee and good blogs, he goes to the marché and then likes to show me how much food he got for only 15 Euros OMG can you believe it!


This morning, at 11am, I got a text from Copain:

Copain: You awake?  What time did you go to bed? Try to get us some fruit please. You know how I love them :-)

Thankfully for him, I was awake. I responded, totally ignoring his request for fruit from the marché, just to see how long it would take for him to bring it up again:

FCC: Hey babe. How was the cheese club? (he had gone to a club in London called Club de Fromage...seriously)

Copain: It was so much fun there. Really liked the club. Only 80's and 90's music. 

FCC: Oh cool:-) did you dance? (For the record, Copain has a "rhythm deficiency" - it's a very serious disorder.)

Copain: Haha A lot!

FCC: Hmmm, are you sure?

Copain: You have no idea. At the end, I was one with the music. Marché? (see how he just casually tosses the marché back into the text?? ps - I'm pretty sure that "one with the music" means "too many pints")

FCC: Yes yes, I'm going to go AFTER my coffee. (this is a non-negotiable)

Copain: Cool!!! (probably shocked that I was actually planning on getting off the couch)

FCC: Yes yes, I know, freak of French nature. (It had to be said)

By the time I finally got my bootay off the couch, into clothes that did not resemble pajamas and out the door, it was already 12:30 (a new record!).  I hurried to the Marché d'Aligre just in time for the final mad scramble - the time when tout est à 1 Euro! (everything is just 1 Euro!).

Check out my loot:

Pamplemousse - 5 for 1 Euro!

Clementines, blette, navets, fenouil, carottes!

1 kilo of onions and 1 kilo of potatoes - all for 1 Euro!

Zucchini! Figs! Bananas!

2 kilos of apples for 2 Euros!

All of this for under 15 Euros OMG Copain would be so proud.  Copain? Are you seeing this?  I would like to state publicly, right here and now, that none of this will be used for Stella.

Les Pommes

I love love love love love l'automne!  It's by far my favorite season - boots, trench coats, butternut squash, baking, cosy pjs, scarves, movies, homemade soups, my hot tapioca banana dessert, thé au lait, school supplies, new haircuts, dark nail polish and cinnamon-scented candles...ah j'adore!


There's just one thing about autumn that I hate: les pommes (apples)

I can tell that l'automne has arrived when the marché starts to fill with apples.  Green apples, red apples, pink lady apples, red delicious apples, blah blah blah. Don't get me wrong, sometimes a nice, crisp apple is the best - but not an entire season of nothing. but. apples.


Copain went to the marché last Sunday and I asked him to get figs, bananas and lots and lots of veggies. Instead, he got pears, bananas (yeah!) leeks, pineapple, zucchini and....des pommes. Lots and lots of pommes.


So far I've made leek and zucchini soup and leak and zucchini quiche, eaten three pears, 2 bananas (in the tapioca dessert!), and...1 pomme.  errrrgggggg. J'en ai déjà marre des pommes! 


How will I get through autumn without wanting to throw an apple out the window? I can just see it coming - apple sauce, apple slices, apple and cheese, apples and cinnamon...oh merde.


Why can't nectarines just be a year-round fruit?


What fruits do you eat in the winter? Any great apple recipes out there?

PS - Copain is Back From the Marché

Mireille would be proud...