Food Mood: Couscous, Berber Deli

There is nothing simpler than this food. Or tastier. Or versatile. Buy a pack of couscous - fine or medium grain, it doesn't really matter. Put 250 g in a large bowl.

Food Mood: Crepes with Cheese and Herbs

To me crepes are the most versatile kind of food. They are easy to make, easy to fill, easy to please your guests with. Or your husband. When you don't feel like having meat or something sweet, and all you have in the fridge is cheese and vegetables, you can try your hand at this dish.

Food Mood: Crème Brûlée

       

Crème Brûlée is a custard-based dessert with a caramel topping. The base is usually vanilla-flavored, but it can also be fruity. This 400-year dessert is also known as burnt cream (referring to its caramelized finish), crema catalana (after its Catalan counterpart), or crème caramel. 

Food Mood: Cheese Fondue

  
Melted cheese dip - a great way to bring friends and family together around the same pot. A wonderful reason for a communal table with lots of red wine and golden toast. Yumminess.

Food Mood: French Onion Soup

Onion soup is a staple of the French cuisine. It is comfort food, very filling and tasty, packed with carbs and fat, but who cares? Just have a look at what it looks like and you'll see what I mean. 

Food Mood: Moules-Frites / Mussels and Fries

   

Les moules frites was originally a Normand dish, but it spread all over France with the speed of light, as it is both deliciously simple, and simply delicious: moules frites = mussels with fries. Its popularity also stems from the tactile eating mode it triggers - you won't need only a glass of chilled white wine, but also lots and lots of paper tissues.

Food Mood: Galettes

  

Galettes are large savory buckwheat flour pancakes that are mostly associated with Britanny and Normandy in France, where they sometimes even replace bread as daily food. One of the most popular varieties (La complète) is covered with grated Emmental cheese, a slice of ham and an egg, cooked on the galette. The lacy galettes are made in a very similar manner to sweet crêpes, but the difference is that buckwheat crêpes are cooked only one one side.

Food Mood: Quiche Lorraine

Quiche Lorraine, literally meaning Lorraine Cake, is a popular, rustic pastry dish filled with meat, vegetables, eggs, and lots of cheese. It is an open pie baked in a springform pan. With a buttery crust and a tender filling, it makes a popular option for basically all meals of the day.

Food Mood: Pain, Amour et Chocolat

  

Pain au chocolat. Thank God I will have finished my diet when I arrived in Paris. This sweet roll, similar in texture with puff pastry, has melted chocolate at the center and made it quickly in the top 5 on my To-Eat-until-You-Explode list. No wonder, Sherlock, you have buckets of love, now all you need is piles of pain au chocolat to justify the title of the post. Hope it is not going to take me weeks until I figure out the difference between a croissant and this. 

   

Food Mood: Macarons. Colored Macarons.

  

Fragile and precious, colorful and temperamental, macarons have been lately the queens of cookies. Had you asked me about them three months ago, I would have told you I would refuse to touch them, as I hate glitzy