In My Kitchen: September 2025

I can't believe I just typed September... The French say metro - boulot - dodo (subway - work - sleep) and maybe this is how life just passes us by? Let's take a look at the last month in my kitchen... 

My dad arrived from Australia with a hand of bananas from his garden (I know.. highly dodgy, but extremely delicious)

I finally bought a new bread knife along with a stainless steel frying pan. I've been baking two loaves on the weekends (one for us and one for my dad). 

I've also gotten into this seed mix which I bought from the local supermarket while we were visiting Padova last time.

I found the French equivalent of sav blanc! I will never go past a Pouilly Fumé again 

  

Our neighbour got us these from a popular chocolaterie Jeff de Bruges. We have never had anything from there and they are really decadent and rich

My dad has been bringing us dinner twice a week and it's an incredible help. Here was one of our dinners - rice with steamed fish, home-sprouted sprouts (he's been growing them from mung beans) stir fried with tofu, and green veggies. 

The other days of the week we have meal prep meals - here coconut taro, dal and cabbage tomato stirfry. I was so moved because I got home from a 24 hour shift at the hospital and saw S had prepared the plate for my lunch along with my favourite beer and a pistachio tart from downstairs. What a stellar husband!

Picnic in the park with an eggplant omelette (unusual, but delicious), camembert with baguette, chickpea tomato salad, and fava bean mash. 

Dumplings at home - these were filled with a combination of TVP, cabbage, carrot and coriander

Another day, another amazing Cyril Lignac pastry

In the summer holidays we have been going very often to the blind school garden across the road from our place, where we have had a whole summer of blackberries, mulberries, strawberries and tomatoes. Here was a particularly beautiful strawberry 

In the work kitchen... 

One of the nurses brought in these gorgeous grapes from her vine at home 

You know you live and work in France when the physiotherapist brings in home made macarons. The shells were incredibly light and the filling of salted caramel was *chefs kiss*. 

I love Picard the frozen supermarket and as cliché as it can be, their frozen meals are actually really good. Here is one I had for one of my on calls. 

We had an excess of bananas one week so I made these "healthy cookies" with banana, oats, chia seeds, almond meal and sunflower oil. They were the perfect mid-ward round pickup and G also loved them for his afternoon tea

Wild blackberries from the hospital cemetery

The curveballs..

I excuse myself for having two food related curveballs... 

The first is this vending machine of fresh produce from local farmers within a 100km radius of Paris, pretty crazy idea right? I wonder how they keep the stuff fresh.. 

And the second is my little monster eating blackberries off the vine at the local park. Eating berries with him all summer has been a truly wonderful experience of motherhood. 

I'm sending this to Sherry who hosts the monthly IMK series. Thanks for visiting and have a great September everyone!

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