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A bit earlier this month, my good friend Jackie posted a recipe for a watermelon and feta salad.

I was at my desk when I read her post, working through lunch, and all I wanted at that moment was to jump through the screen and eat that salad. I came home that day and flipped through my copy of the Frenchie cookbook, and lo and behold: a watermelon salad.

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Posted in: appetizers, cooking, salads | Tags: feta, food, frenchie, fruit salad, greg marchand, gregory marchand, melon, mint, paris, paris at home, paris restaurant recipe, pine nuts, recipe, salad, travel, watermelon | 2 COMMENTS

As you may have surmised, I went to a lot of restaurants while I was in Paris. Something I might have failed to mention is that, on occasion, I bought the cookbooks from those restaurants.

Now that I’ve been back in LA for several weeks, I’ve gotten over the fun of eating everything that I missed while I was abroad (In-n-Out! hoppy beer!) and am now starting to miss my favorite restaurants in Paris.  So I thought, why not try to reproduce some of these dishes at home?

Let’s start with a simple one from Frenchie. A play on the traditional caprese, this salad replaces tomatoes with roughly-torn ripe summer peaches and counterpoints them with savory, smoky mozzarella.

Then? You drizzle on lots of the good stuff.

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Posted in: salads | Tags: caprese, cheese, food, frenchie, frenchie cookbook, fruit, fruit salad, greg marchand, gregory marchand, La cuisine du Frenchie at home, mozzarella, paris at home, peach, peach caprese, recipe, salad, smoked mozzarella, summer | 4 COMMENTS

You all know that I’ve been in love with Frenchie for months. Well now, Chef Marchand has opened his third restaurant on Rue du Nil to help me live the dream of having Frenchie for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Frenchie To Go is open from early morning to just before the restaurant and bar à vins open for dinner. There’s breakfast all day, consisting of an english muffin sandwich with a pile of maple-smoked bacon (egg is weirdly not automatically included, but can be had for an extra €0.70) as well as various decidedly American pastries such as donuts, muffins, and brownies. No viennoiseries here.

The lunch menu, served 1-4pm, seems designed for Anglophone expats of various stripes who miss the various iterations of take-out and street foods of their homelands. Think fish and chips, lobster rolls (the biggest-ticket item at €22), and hot dogs. If you’ve eaten at Frenchie bar à vins recently, some of these concoctions will be familiar to you: the pulled pork has been a messy favorite forever, but my go-to has always been the reuben, made with pastrami maison, sharp cheddar, and tangy coleslaw on crusty pain des amis that’s entirely saturated with butter and grilled. There’s really no other way to describe it but daaaaaaang.

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Posted in: dining out, paris | Tags: american food paris, food, food photography, france, frenchie, frenchie breakfast, frenchie lunch, frenchie paris, frenchie to go, greg marchand, gregory marchand, paris, paris restaurant, photography, pulled pork, restaurant, reuben, take-out paris, travel | 14 COMMENTS