This is How my Friends and I do Vacation

After gorging myself on museums and macaroons I came back to Toulouse where I met Emma and Helen (my girlfriends from study abroad who are also assistants in France and who I went to Budapest with) where we spent the next 4 days doing nothing but cooking, restauranting, drinking, and walking the city with no place in particular to go. We finished their visit with a double movie feature of Titanic 3D and The Hunger Games; Shameless. But hey, it was raining, what else were we supposed to do??

Here are some photos of what we ate, I mean did, while they were here:

Helen and I at La Pref, Toulouse, France

Great family style Vietnamese food at Chez Pham,
rue Mage, Toulouse, France

Self serve desserts = great idea.

Pho soup

Clean dishes

Helen pressing her dough into the pan

Goat cheese and fig tarte in the making

Bon apetit 

 I had wanted to make Emma and Helen a dinner using products, meats and cheeses from the region:

Roasted sweet potatoes, onions and asparagus 

Wrapping from the butcher where I bought Saucisse de Toulouse for dinner

Saucisse de Toulouse and Merguez sausages

Rocamadour, cheese from the region

Place Mage, Toulouse, France

Supplies for a fruit salad

Sunday Brunch, fruit salad, scrambled eggs, and fig baguettte toast