Chocolate rum quinoa pudding and a visit to Nantes

A trip to France always needs some time to get assimilated, especially when you come back with more than 1000 shots to edit.
I often rethink at the great weekend I spent in Nantes few weeks ago under a summery sun and in great company. Aside from exploring the objective beauty of a city, I find that getting in touch with its soul is a much more rewarding feat. People watching is great fun especially when you can sport an anthropological motive for your nosiness.
Being a tourist for me means being a citizen of leisure, living the city as close as its citizens would normally do but without the hanging pain of daily chores. I love to stroll among the frenchies, discovering their cities and their daily secret pleasures.
Having a camera on your shoulder though does single you out as an inquisitive foreigner ready to invade people's privacy for the mere pleasure of recording.

TweetPost #5: Rice noodles in an aromatic creamy broth with turkey and eggplant

This is a surprise post even for me. Tonight I sat down to have another of mine rice-noodle soup. The past night I got into the mood for my rice-noodle carbonara but not having any bacon those will have to wait. I had instead eggplant, turkey and some orange juice.
The dish was silky creamy with a summery aroma of lime leaf and delicate tanginess from the orange juice. The eggplant gave richer bites without interfering on the textures. The stock, turkey and Parmesan gave that full mouthfeel typical of umami..
So this is what I came up with:

Rice noodles in an aromatic creamy broth with turkey and eggplant

TweetPost #4: Tortelloni with Eggplants, garam-masala turkey nuggets and a long peppercorn scented milk-olive oil emulsion sauce.

Yesterday night I came back home a bit earlier than usual and I was so hungry that I took a big chunk of bread, made some olive oil and lemon juice emulsion and married the two together over and over again. Naturally, at dinner time I wasn’t starving as usual. That is a good thing since I then have more energies to invest in something worth posting and so I came out with the recipe you will read in this post and spend most part of the night shooting pictures before realising that it was almost 3am.

Tortelloni with Eggplants, garam-masala turkey nuggets and a long peppercorn scented milk-olive oil emulsion sauce.