In the second series of Trish’s Paris Kitchen, Trish Deseine brings us on another inspirational and appetite whetting journey into the way that French people cook, eat and live.
Trish Deseine first went to Paris 20 years ago from her native Belfast and quickly discovered that food, eating and cooking are deeply infused into the French psyche. Put simply, she fell in love with French food, French style and the French capital. In these programmes she will let you in on that love affair and show you how to take a leaf out of her adopted Frenchwoman’s life, and cook with confidence and style.
Throughout Trish’s Paris Kitchen, we will see how exactly one handles French delicacies such as oysters in a champagne sabayon, moules mariniès or Coq au vin. We explore the institution at the heart of heart of any French town, the bistro, and meet first hand some of the movers and shakers in the world of French cuisine.
Programme Four – Fast Food
As Trish Deseine strolls around her beloved Paris, she is often struck by the amount of fast food available. There are, of course, burger bars and pizza joints, but there are also numerous establishments serving a particular Parisien version of fast food. Crêperies are springing up all over the city, offering all manner of delicious sweet and savoury crêpes and of course Parisien street life is almost defined by the bistro.
Like most food lovers living in Paris, Trish has her own favourite, where she can be in and out in half an hour after a classic steak béarnaise with salad and baby new potatoes. Suitably fortified, she heads off to the market where she orders her weekly box of home delivery organic vegetables. Included in the selection, Trish gets the makings of a light delicious Quiche Lorraine, to throw in front of the ‘starving’ children as they rush through the door after school.
Next day it’s back to the market for the makings of two more fast food classics to make at home. Mussels are in season and a kilo of these most tempting of molluscs will make a moules marinières for six in under a quarter of an hour. And finally, in the race that ends the programme, Trish emerges victorious, getting home and making a tarte tatin in less time than it takes her friend Odile to buy one in the patissier and bring it round in the basket of her bicycle.