In My Kitchen: July 2025

Can someone tell me where June went? I think it flew by in a flurry of trying-to-adapt-at-work (it's still extremely hard to force my brain to work in another language), hot days of the heatwave (no air con in the ICU...) and not a whole lot of cooking. Picard the frozen supermarket is our new friend. Let's have a look anyway at my random food photos of the last month.. 

Tunisian sweets from my colleague who brought them back from her hometown

Fancy Friday is still alive if only in the form of wine... S is now best friends with the caviste who even waves at us when we walk past 

Another Fancy Friday when it was suuuuuper hot, we had this lovely fresh light rosé

I went to a 3yo birthday party themed under the sea, my friend was pretty inventive with the food! 

It was so hot last week that we ate these leftover salads from a conference S organised for days on end, chickpea salad and white beans with feta. There were also mysterious flowers in there and I'm never sure if they are edible - does anyone know? 

Saturday night sushi

With this super hot weather we've been having heaps of cold salads, here a rice noodle salad with cold tofu and an egg, just about all the cooking we can manage in this weather..  

We finally succumbed and bought the spectacular fraisier from our local Cyril Lignac. It's as amazing as it looks, a light as air genoise sponge, plump sweet strawberries, a vanilla creme topped with a sprinkling of pistachio. Heaven. 

We have reached an age where G cannot sit still in a restaurant so we have resorted to having picnics in the park, here was an excellent vegetarian plate we got as takeout near Parc Monceau 

Finally it's been a little tradition now to make a melon cake for S' birthday. This year I was busy at work and got home too late to do anything too spectacular, so I call this the geometric watermelon cake. 

My curveball this month is even food related... it's been so hot that we have been going to the supermarket to cool down, where my little monster has now learned to pull a trolley around. He also sat down on the ground with a packet of crackers and refused to budge. The terrible twos are coming, I can feel it :) 

That's it for me this month, sending this to Sherry for the IMK series and wishing all the IMKers lots of coolness if you are in heatwave and lots of warmth if you are in winter. Have a great month everyone!