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One of my favorite people to visit when I am in France are my friends Rudy and Brian. They live near the forest of  Fontainebleu, about 45 minutes from Paris by train.  I visited them with my friend Pablo.

Brian and Rudy are both very good cooks.  Brian cooked a big plate of white asparagus. The French ones are particularly fat and tasty.  You can eat them plain. Pablo brought back a souenir from his recent trip to Barcelona where he is from. "Rudy loves ham," Brain said.   It was Jamon Iberico de Bellota, the finest of Spanish hams.  We ate everything.

The main dish was cod served with a soury sorrell sauce.  Brian picked the sorrel from her garden and cooked it with creme fraiche.  She said, it was the easiest sauce in the world.  I never tasted sorrel before.  It is slightly sour but very nice with the fish.  Brian went through the sorrel sauce recipe, which I jot down in my head.  It would be nice to make it at home but I am not sure if I will be able to find such good creme fraiche or fresh sorrel, unless I grow it.

I found a beautiful chocolatier in the St. German de Pres called Hugo and Victor.  Their design is modern, their flavors extoic.  I tried the yellow ball, which turned out to be mango flavor.  Very good.  I always have an adventure with chocolates when I am in Paris.  A box of chocolate can cost as much as 30 euros, as did this little box. But most of the time, it's worth it.