Print This Recipe Sous Vide Cacao Chili-Rubbed Flat Iron SteakĬacao chili rub adapted from Ellie Krieger’s Coffee and Chili Rubġ 1/2 teaspoons Crio Bru powder (or cocoa powder)*ġ. Although this meal isn’t classically French, it is delicious! Happy Bastille Day everyone! Instead of regular french fries, I made some oven baked sweet potato fries and served everything with a cherry pico de gallo. I used a flat iron steak and cooked it sous vide. I added a not-so-French twist with a cacao chili rub inspired by mole and all of the spicy dishes we enjoyed in our recent vacation to Mexico. The memory inspired me to whip up my own version of steak frites. It was one of those moments that was picture perfect. We both ordered steak frites, a classic French bistro meal of steak and fries. We sat outside and had a perfect view of the Seine river and the Eiffel tower in the distance. One meal in particular came to mind, a dinner at a little bistro in a neighborhood on the Left Bank with one of my classmates. Reading about French food and the area of Paris where I spent so much time inspired some reminiscing about my own meals in Paris. The Belly of Paris is a great read-Zola should have been a food writer, as he had a way of describing the food of the markets that brings it to life. While living in Paris, I attended classes in an old building very close to where Les Halles used to be (it is now a large shopping district called Forum des Halles), and would actually walk up through the area from the metro station ( Châtelet-Les-Halles) to get to class. Last week I read The Belly of Paris, written in 1873 by Emile Zola, which takes place in Paris during the Second French Empire (period from 1852 to 1870), in Les Halles, the newly rebuilt central marketplace which was known at that time as le ventre de Paris, or the belly of Paris (thus the name of Zola’s book). With it being Bastille Day today (the day that commemorates the beginning of the French revolution on the 14th of July in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille), I am utterly nostalgic, thinking of my time spent living in Paris as a college student.
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