Paris Video

Here's a Video from me, enjoy!

La mode c'est tout

La mode c'est tout means fashion is everything. La mode means "Fashion" and c'est means "is" and tout means "everything"

Fashion has been an important industry and cultural export of France since the seventeenth century, and modern "haute couture" originated in Paris in the 1860s. Today, Paris, along with London, Milan, and New York City, is considered one of the world's fashion capitals, and the city is home or headquarters to many of the premier fashion houses, including Balenciaga, Céline, Chanel, Chloe, Dior, Givenchy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hermès, Lanvin, Rochas, Vuitton and Yves Saint Laurent. Thanks to wikipedia I can understand more about my dream country, PARIS! Lets talk about fashion!

I love French fashion - it's chic, elaborate in its cuts and embellishments without going too over-the-top, and very creative and quirky.  It has a very elegant sense of luxury.

 The French labels are generally more simple yet a lot more chic in my opinion (: I also feel that French dress with exquisite taste!

NY Fashion describes the D&G look well:

Devastatingly sexy, fetishistic designs and a characteristically Italian aesthetic; every collection would look at home on the set of a Fellini movie.

Check out what the collection for yourself and tell me what you think: 

*credited all above images to all women talk

Dior's Autumn-Winter fashion show:-

A model presents a creation as part of British designer John Galliano's Haute Couture Autumn-Winter 2008-2009 fashion show for French fashion house Dior in Paris, June 30, 2008

A model presents a creation as part of British designer John Galliano's Haute Couture Autumn-Winter 2008-2009 fashion show for French fashion house Dior in Paris, June 30, 2008.

Don't you love it?? Well I do!!

Video for you!:

I hope everyone is enjoy their time here, and there's lot more to love about PARIS! so stay tune :)

french bread recipe

The Recipe: French Bread

Ingredients:

1/4 tsp active dry yeast

scant 2 cups warm water (1 5/6 cups if you want to be precise)

3 cups flour, plus extra for kneading (I know it’s “no-knead”, but I’ll get to that later)

2 tsp salt

Methods:

Part 1. The night before.

Begin by dissolving the yeast in the warm water. Let it sit for at least 3-4 minutes.

While the yeast is getting friendly, place 3 cups of flour in a bowl large enough to allow the mixture to expand to 3 times its bulk (about 10 1/2 cups – Julia recommends filling the bowl with water to know the precise level at which the dough has expanded to 3 1/2 times it’s original bulk). Add 2 tsp of salt to the flour and mix.

Stir in the yeast and water mixture until well incorporated. Scrape the sides of the bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Then cover the plastic wrap with a damp towel.

Allow to rest for 12-14 hours 

Part 2. In the morning.

Prepare your work surface with enough flour to prevent the dough from sticking.

Uncover the dough. It should have tripled in bulk and be bubbly and rather sweaty looking.

Using a spatula, turn the dough out onto your work surface. Allow it to rest for a moment while you wash out the bowl – you’ll be needing it again in a moment.

Flour the palms of your hands and sprinkle some flour over the surface of the dough. Knead the dough 4-5x, just to squeeze out the air bubbles. Flatten it into a circle and squeeze out all the large bubbles of air. Fold the dough in half, and then in half again. Try to make it look a bit rounded and return it to the clean bowl. Cover it with the plastic wrap and towel and let it rest for 2 more hours.

Part 3. Shaping the dough.

By now the dough should be looking all bubbly again. Turn it out onto your floured working surface. Once again, flatten it into a circle and squeeze out the bubbles.

You can shape the dough however you’d like, but I prefer a long single loaf, which is done by folding the dough in half lengthwise. First you fold the far side to the center, and then you bring the near side of the dough to meet it in the middle. This part isn't really all that critical, but you will want to make sure it rises seam-side down, unless you want it to look funny.

Part 4. The final rise.

The next step is where I differ from pretty much every baker out there. Everyone – and I do mean everyone – insists that your french bread must rise on floured towels. This is nonsense, and messy to boot. I firmly believe it should rise on the surface you’ll be baking it on. 

After shaping the dough, I pick it up off the counter and put it on a parchment covered baking sheet, seam side down. If you are making baguettes, which won’t fit in a standard oven anyway, then you might need to use towels, but for any other shape, your hands will work just fine, and you can arrange the dough a bit once it’s on the baking sheet.

Sprinkle a light dusting of flour on the surface of your dough and cover with plastic wrap, followed by a wet towel. Allow to rise for 1 1/2 hours, or until it has increased 2 1/2 times in bulk. After 1 hour, pre-heat your oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.

Part 5. Scoring.

The signature cuts on the surface of french bread are both beautiful and useful. They allow the dough to expand just a little bit more! To create them, slice through the top layer of the dough using a sharp knife. I strongly suggest using a utility knife (obviously a clean one that isn't covered in plaster!). Wet it with warm water first, and it will cut cleanly and easily through the dough (plus it’s a lot easier to hold than a razor blade!!).

Part 6. Baking.

You’re almost there! Now we need to replicate the baker’s oven as well as we can. This is done by spraying the dough with water, which allows the dough to rise a bit more during the beginning of the baking process. I use a standard spray bottle for this (obviously one that has never been used for cleaning products, etc.!). Spray the dough until the surface is wet, and then place it in your pre-heated 450 degree oven. Bake for 3 minutes.

After 3 minutes, remove the bread. Spray it again. Return it to the oven for another 3 minutes.

After 3 more minutes, remove the bread and spray it again. Return it to the oven and repeat the process after another 3 minutes.

The final time (to clarify, you spray at the 3, 6 and 9 minute marks), remove bread and spray again. Return to the oven and bake for 16 more minutes, for a total bake time of 25 minutes. You might want to rotate the baking sheet half way through if your oven is hotter at the back than the front. Be sure to allow the bread to cool completely (2-3 hours) before storing or cutting 

credited: the earthly paradise

And here's a video for all of you who hate reading ;P

Enjoy!!! s'il vous plaît profiter!

It's all about the bread! the loaf!

Just imagine by looking those actors / actress eating french bread in one movie, all you can do is swallowing your saliva with a very intense moment of craving! That is one of the reason why I love about Paris. French bread is one of everyone favorite things ever. It is so simple yet complex, crusty yet chewy, and super delicious! 

Well some people always ask "How do we serve this bread"

I myself was searching the ideas around the internet and found these great ideas:

1. By itself: So simple and delicious! This may make me sound like a freak, but my favorite part of bread is actually the crust. Whenever I get a loaf of bread, I always attack the ends. Chewy middles are a distant second in my opinion. So the high crust-to-innard ratio of baguettes is a huge plus to me!

2. With butter: Still very simple and oh, so decadent. I think it might be especially yummy if you can get butter from dairy farmers who make small batches of unhomogenized and sometimes, unpasteurized butter.

3. With butter and jam: To further bring your taste buds nearer to nirvana, add jam to #2. Not jelly please no! But J-A-M. My current favorite is this awesomely flavorful blackberry jam from Trader Joe's. I just ran out but I'm hoping it's not just a seasonal item...

4. With butter and roasted garlic cloves sheared on top. Now, THIS is sheer heaven!

5. As part of a bánh mì: If you haven't tried one of these yummy sammie, you have to try one right now. And I mean, go to a pho place right NOW! Banh mi is a Vietnamese-style sandwich made with baguettes. It is usually made with pork, chicken, pickled carrots, some veggies and cilantro.

6. With chocolate: As exemplified by fellow DBer Tartelette here.

7. With extra virgin olive oil as dip: Droooooolz!

8. With cheese of all kinds: goat, brie, blue, Cheddar. Oh, the possibilities are endless!

9. With Nutella: I suppose Nutella could be considered chocolate. But I think Nutella is just so good it deserves its own category. I really think the USDA should really reserve a place for this delicious hazelnutty chocolatey goodness in the food pyramid. Don't you?

10. As crostini: Sliced thinly, toasted and topped with various yummies like chopped tomato and basil, garlic hummus and pine nuts, roasted tomato puree and sliced mozzarella, etc.

11. For croutons: I've never been a fan of croutons and consider this one to be a bit of a waste of good bread. But hey, I'm sure there are folks out there who beg to differ and can't live without croutons...

credited to food diva :)

Here some pictures for you readers to enjoy! :-

*Garlic Parsley Butter Bread*

Garlic bread:-

Roasted garlic bread:-

Great garlic bread:-

Garlic parmesan monkey bread:-

Herb garlic bread:-

Cheesy garlic bread:-

Crispy yogurt chicken:- 

and there's lot more! Stay tune I might share the recipe's too! <3

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Enjoy some instrumental french music!

C'est L'Amour is a Romantic French Classics, which mean "This is Love" :)

Quotes all about PARIS

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” 
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind [With Earbuds]

The quote I love the best about Paris is Ernest Hemingway’s:

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

His quote captures everything about Paris in just that one sentence, for indeed it is a movable feast for all the senses and as he says, if you are lucky enough to live in Paris as a young person (I was) then it remains with you, as a part of you, no matter where you are!

Another Hemingway quote that I love:

Il n’y a que deux endroits au monde où l’on puisse vivre heureux:  chez soi et à Paris.

(There are only two places in the world where we can live happy:  at home and in Paris.)

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

From The Paris Wife

(A novel about Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley.)

Everything ends this way in France - everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs -everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

Jean Anouilh

Here are some more famous and not so famous quotes that I like about Paris.

J’ai deux amours…..Mon pays et Paris.(I have two loves…..my country and Paris.)

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Josephine Baker

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Gertrude Stein

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

Norman Rockwell

In Paris everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Jean Cocteau

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

Geoffrey Cottrell

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Fred Allen

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner.  If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Roman Polanski

Traffic lights for drivers in London are imperative; in Paris - they’re suggestive; in Rome - they’re decorative.

Something I’ve always said.

Boy those French, they have a different word for everything.

Steve Martin

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.

Billy Wilder

L’Americain de Paris, c’est ce que l’Amerique a fait de mieux.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Honoré de Balzac

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

Cole Porter

I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.

Mae West

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain’s very important. That’s when Paris smells its sweetest.  It’s the damp chestnut trees.

Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina

**my favorite collections of a famous quotes about PARIS from  famous people! So inspired!

Paris

Hello readers...

Okay this will be my first post about PARIS. I always wanted to visit the place where all about romance and beauty, PARIS! 

 Paris is the capital and largest city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region .

Why Paris? Well Paris beauty, romantic scenery and good foods, language, is enough to convince me that this will be my first place to visit! enough the talking, let's enjoy the pictures below! Below is all about Paris architecture including Paris popular monuments and landmark  (All images sources are from Google) 

(Place of interest)

EIFFEL TOWER

Boulevard Montmartre

THE LOUVRE

GALLERIES LAFAYETTE

Avenue des Champs-Élysées 

NOTRE DAME

There you go! :D Well I think everyone always have a similar dream to visit Paris especially the EIFFEL TOWER! Paris name was actually taken from a tribe known as parisii. Well below video is taken from youtube, I wanna share to all my reader the sound / atmosphere in Paris!

 

The cafe was facing the river, but was separated from it by a major street, the quai de la Mégisserie, which is partially visible to the left and reflected in the glass of the café.

(FOOD AND BEVERAGES)

omg I love absolutely everything about Paris! But there are few things that get me excited more than anything about Paris, FOOD!! Anyone visiting Paris cannot fail to be bowled or opening your mouth wide than the whale with the excitement over the wealth of beautiful pastries, magnificent breads and fine cheeses, meats and cooking techniques that we will find there. Tartes aux fruits, tarte tatins, cassoulets, confits… the list is endless! Even my tongue get twisted to pronounce all of these! LOL!

Now now enough talking, I know everyone excited too to view all the pictures. Lets the picture do the talking once again!

The best Ice cream!!!! Yummy! :

Pudding!!!:

Macaroon!!! Who doesn't love Macaroon! :

The heaven of all!!! Cheese!!!! :

More pasta!!:

Well, Paris isn't well known for its beer making prowess, however there are some beers that are definitely a few French brews worthy of your taste buds. Here’s three of the best: 

1. Kronenbourg 1664

2. Leffe

 3. Fischer

Well Champagne is always the best for all occasion:-

Well that's all for now and who knows I might be there myself!!! Who knows!!! Readers, stay tune!!!