I'm afraid to step on the scale

Although there is nothing better than gnawing on a baguette from morning to night, I wasn't sure my body could handle ingesting massive amounts of enriched white flour. So we went to this reputedly fantastic restaurant for a real meal in Paris (5 days ago).

Raw scallops with a lemon-mango sauce.




My rule of thumb is to never order salmon at restaurants because it's so common and fairly easy to cook at home. But this was a fish restaurant after all so I made an exception. This turned out to be perrrrrrrrrrrrrrfectly pan-seared salmon! The center was shockingly tender and moist.








Jon ordered the rabbit and loved it. But I suspect he had food envy. I sort of like that =)







Lemon tart was so tasty. The top was similar to that of creme brulee.

Believe it or not...well, you can believe it because it's Jon, but after all that food, he still had room for Parisian gelato.

The next day, we sat at a lovely cafe for brunch and soaked in Paris. We had our first "celebrity" sighting: the Geico cavemen.

Extremely decadent hot chocolate. Not that I was complaining...

This was a tasty croissant but less so after finding out the cafe charged for the mini jam.

This creperie was just setting up when we got there (yup, right after brunch). We circled and circled and circled and monsieur was still not ready. But we relentlessly strolled the blocks and even bought subway tickets ahead of time.

Monsieur finally making our banana/Nutella crepe. Check out that tub of melted Nutella! We think that made a world of difference in the taste and texture of our crepe. But really now, when there's warm Nutella in your mouth, nothing could really go wrong.

See that twinkle in Jon's eyes? He used to look at me this way when we were dating. Ha!