#Paris Brest Paris

[daflocloud]

PBP 2023

[queenoftheblacksky]

Paris Saint-Germain vs Brest (January 28, 2024)

[oldblood]

i was going to post the christmas cake i made but my cat stole a piece and made it ugly. sad

[paperxcrowns]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: MacGyver (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Wilt Bozer & Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016) Characters: Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016), Wilt Bozer (MacGyver TV 2016), Jack Dalton (mentioned) Additional Tags: Angst, Worried Wilt Bozer (MacGyver TV 2016), Hurt Angus Macgyver (Macgyver TV 2016), Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Good Friend Wilt Bozer (MacGyver TV 2016), Pre-Canon, i am struggling to tag this more than i should be, Canon-Typical Violence, no editing fuck it we ball Series: Part 1 of seven (for a secret never to be told) Summary:

Mac returns home from a botched mission in Paris five days late with a broken collarbone, several broken ribs, and a box of French pastries as an apology to Bozer.

[empirearchives]

Napoleon was really cute during this exchange:

He really liked these miniature models called plan-reliefs. There were several intricately detailed ones made during his rule.

This one is of the port city of Brest. This is what he said when he saw it on 6 March 1813:

Translation:

“Here is a beautiful, a magnificent work! It's beautiful, it's very beautiful! (...) Go get the Empress, tell her that we have seen nothing comparable.”

Source: Musée des Plans-Reliefs

[the-pardon-my-french]

Ms Elliot at Hock Bee, Kuantan, Pahang.

Hock Bee Signature: Caramel machiato with marshmallows

LOTS of mouthwatering desserts + pastries

[mmepastel]

Du coup, j’ai lu Paris-Brest. Mais je l’ai mal lu. J’ai pas trop compris le dispositif narratif, avec manuscrit en train de s’écrire et néanmoins déjà écrit… ça m’a embrouillée, je ne sais pas si j’ai toutes mes facultés actuellement, je le lisais le soir, je m’endormais malgré l’intérêt qu’il suscitait en moi, le lendemain j’avais oublié des pans du récit… faut que je fasse gaffe, c’est pas la première fois que ça m’arrive.

Bref. Malgré tout, encore une fois, j’ai apprécié l’écriture, juste et précise. Cette histoire de famille et d’argent met en scène des personnages globalement peu aimables. Ils ont l’air de se détester, et de ne même pas parvenir à le cacher. La complexité des rapports familiaux est très intéressante, et c’est un sujet qui me parle toujours. Le narrateur se débat contre sa famille, utilise diverses techniques transgressives, mais aucune n’égale l’écriture de ce qu’il nommera son roman familial. C’est une vraie bombe. On sent chez le narrateur le désir de comprendre, d’être juste, dans ce qui ressemble à une tragédie sourde. Certaines scènes contiennent des passions qu’on peut hélas reconnaître, des scènes de violence symboliques ou physiques, parce que le noyau familial est dysfonctionnel, et qu’en même temps, on ne peut pas s’en détacher totalement, jamais. Le passé n’est jamais passé. On aime détester la mère, si cruelle avec son jeune enfant au square (simple exemple, mais qui m’a marquée) et donc la vengeance qu’il trouve en faisant son portrait au vitriol une fois adulte. On aime ça, et en même temps on souffre, car ce n’est jamais agréable de détester, ni de se venger. Et ici, ces sentiments sont exacerbés, mais ils le sont pour mettre au jour les nôtres, plus ouatés ou diffus. Comme diraient les Rita Mitsouko, on n’a pas que d’l’amour, enfin, souvent. Je suis tentée de généraliser mais je me trompe peut-être.

On rit parfois, mais c’est grinçant. On a globalement les dents serrées, et une bonne dose de mélancolie qui colle depuis les pages.

[philoursmars]

Une longue série sur la bouffe, deuxième service ! On finit avec les desserts :

Marseille, chez moi : couronne des Rois

Douai : un cake d'anniversaire pour Audrey

île d'Oléron, La Cotinière, resto "La Gaieté" : un "Paris-Oléron"

Saint-Emilion : une glace pour moi

Marseille, chez Madie-Les Galinettes : cannelés à l'anis

Libourne : cannelés façon profiteroles

voir 3 mais tarte aux fruits

[thewhimsyturtle]

A fancy pastry has appeared!  ✨🌰🍩  Mom says this is a Mont Blanc Paris-Brest with sweet chestnut purée.  I couldn’t decide which to CHOMP first:  The beautiful pastry or the super shiny gold cake board it came on!  ✨👀🐢🤔

[postcard-from-the-past]

Street scene in the 17th district of Paris

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1911 to Brest

[queenoftheblacksky]

Paris Saint-Germain vs Brest (February 7, 2024)

[dasistleeway]

I admit that I bought too much for breakfast, but they all looked so delicious...

[coachtfd]

PSG think they’re going to keep Mbappé when they can’t even keep a 2-goal lead against Brest? 😬 Credit to Brest, though, they’re third in the league this season for a reason. I’ve watched them play and I like the direction they’re trending in. 👍🏾

[lingocurio]

So I was listening to the Duolingo French podcast today. I think it was the most recent episode, Jan 30. It's the one about French pastries: Paris - Le goût des patisseries. (Omg, I think I gained 10 lbs just listening to it.)

One of the pastries they mention is Paris-Brest. I don't know what that is. So I looked it up and found various photos. It didn't strike me as being anything special.

It mentioned that it's made with choux pastry. What the heck is choux pastry?? So I looked that up. It's a light and fluffy pastry made with basically just butter, water, flour and egg. It doesn't have any ingredient that would normally be used to make dough fluffy (yeast, baking powder), it's basically the water steaming that makes it puff up.

Wait a minute... This sounded familiar...

My mom used to make cream puffs. They were delicious and they were my favourite of the desserts she used to make. She explained to me once the physics of how the water has to steam out in order for the pastry to puff up.

She got the recipe out of a Betty Crocker cookbook. I have that cookbook now. See photos for the recipe.

So this Paris-Brest pastry sounds delicious after all. 😄

By the way, choux means "cabbages" in French (singular: chou). Apparently the puff pastries look a bit like little cabbages, so that is how this pastry got its name.

Now the term of endearment "mon petit chou" makes more sense. It must be referring to the cute and sweet little puff pastry, not a giant, not-exactly-attractive nutritious-but-boring vegetable.

[portergage]

You are my favourite, the light of my life, a wonderful human with talent to rival the literary greats, my best friend, my inspiration 💜

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[chuckersatz]

- SYNDROME 81 -

23 Oct. 2022 @ ESS’pace, Paris (France) w/ MAGNET ROOM + VCNCS

Orga: Smartandconfused

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