Le marché Bastille

We always seem to be going to the Bastille: not that we're Revolutionaries, it's just the largest nearby center and a pleasant short walk, too. Today, Sunday, was market day, le marché Bastille is one of the best known, and I have some new recipes requiring the freshest of ingredients.

The beginning of the market, Blvd. Richard Lenoir, off the
Place de la Bastille

Quail eggs

Nice display of shrimp

Impressive seafood stalls; we're not all that far from the
Channel, and lotte, aka monkfish, aka poor man's lobster,
was plentiful (I used to use it, when I could get it, in my
bouillabaise)

All manner of asparagus, including wild; note the black
tomatoes to the right

Niece Stacey has joined us and is enjoying the quotidien as
well as the the sights

Market scene

All manner of prepared food as well as the ingredients

On my walk back home (the others went to the Eiffel Tower,
etc.), an emerging favorite place, Le Bistrot du Peintre

At another Rue de Charonne restaurant, delivery of the
afternoon pre-frites...

Still walking home...along the Boulevard Voltaire (!), several
blocks either side of Rue de Charonne  (our street), a weekend
market springs up...the professional flea market types are well
represented, but mostly it seems to be the family garage/attic/
basement spring cleaning...so it has occurred to me now that
maybe our best strategy is to take all our crap from the
storage unit in Missoula, pack it into a container, ship it here,
and, next spring, open L'American merde Store on the Blvd.
Voltaire

He'll always have Paris