Cooking Adventures & more

Last thurs, we attended Sting's concert at the "Palais Omnisport de Paris Bercy", the same place where Lady Gaga's one was held. Huge turnout as well. The concert's called "Symphonicities", and hence the orchestra. It was quite good given that he's already 59! Still super in shape and full of energy. Managed to catch a 2 min clip of the all-time classic "every breath you take". Tried posting it here and on fb but file is too huge. Sorry.

As for the weekend, on sat afternoon, we caught a modern ballet called "Roland Petit" at the "Opéra de Paris". First cultural event for us ever since we arrived! It was really beautiful and exquisite inside with all the painted ceilings and sculptured marble pillars. 67€ pp for 2nd level 1st row seats with perfect view of the stage and the orchestra. We enjoyed 2 out of the 3 acts :)

Dinner - Lobster sashimi. Ooh I love this. Bought from the market earlier in the day but it was still jumping around when we took it out of the fridge! Poor S was in charge of doing the evil. She had to stab it in the head and sever the head from the tail. Too brave! But it continued moving and curling for a good 15mins. All worth the effort though. After scraping the meat out, we steamed the remains. Both sashimi and cooked meat were so sweet I can't wait to eat it again. Just 15€ per piece. Rare price.

After that, an event called "La Nuit Blanche" (which translates to The White Night) took place. Many museums opened their doors to the public until the wee hours of the night. Because of the free entrance, it was rather popular with the Parisians. So we headed out at 10pm and walked to the museums in our neighborhood (talk about good location!). 4 in the vicinity but only visited 3.

1. Palais de Tokyo. Nothing much in there except a store and a restaurant. Weird. But I heard their temp exhibitions can be quite good.
2. Musée d'Art moderne. Right beside the Palais de Tokyo. Saw a total of 3 huge paintings and 1 film. It was then that we realized that the museums only opened certain sections as a little preview for the public. A teeny weeny bit disappointed at first but rationalized that it is a good way to culturally educate the public. Oh well, could have been worse if we had specially driven to somewhere.
3 & 4. Galliera, Musée de la Mode. The museum itself is under renovation but there were installations outside. From afar, we thought that the focus was on the sculpture but it was actually the chandelier. Quite pretty.

Last but not least, dessert-baking on Sunday while watching Ryder Cup. I know I wrote on my homepage that this blog is supposed to be about cooking successes and failures, and so far I've only shown the good ones. So here's one grade F for you! Disgusting looking even though it tastes quite good. Haha. I will attempt again.