Paris S'éveille: Tarte Fruits Rouge

I realized a little while back that I was actually one short of my target number of fresh cakes for Paris S'éveille and finally got around to going there. Using the route I choose, it is around 11 1/3 km and 80 m of climbing and descending each way. Going out, I was on the high side of 10 km/h, which is not the fastest I've gone, but pretty good for lately. Unfortunately, I'll still getting there pretty late, so I did not find any new cakes. Of the familiar cakes that I haven't tried yet, I choose the Tarte Fruits Rouge (I think the card said), which did not excite me much, but I figured would be better for me than the Opera or the coffee tonka bean tart, since coffee makes me ill. There is also a revamped version of the Everest, so I should probably review my review of that and see whether I can tell how different the new one is; maybe it's worth trying.

Going back was a similar distance, of course, and I was less in a hurry, so only 9 km/h. It rained a little, but I was prepared to double bag the cake box and had a jacket with a hood if I had needed it.

The tart was actually an excellent tart and reminded me that I don't mind an excellent tart now and then. Sorry, I forgot to set the camera for "flowers" so that it can deal with cake close-ups. Still another week and a half before I get the new phone with the good camera, when I'll have to learn all over again about the settings. Should be a little better than these, though.


I should say that Tuesday I ran without cake, and without even a pastry. I might use that as an excuse to get another cookie from JPH some time (I owe them for a cake-off win). I was doing my culture and cake shop local neighbor runs and managed the first two okay (583 m at 10 km/h and 2.72 km at 9 km/h, with two passes over the pedestrian bridge) but still have not completed the third one (I assume that I ran about 9 km/h, so it would have been another 3.7 km, but I'm not going to waste my time measuring the length directly, even though I know exactly where I went) without making wrong turns (granted, I keep adjusting the route, but I can only blame one mis-turn on that this time). Maybe tomorrow I'll finally make it through to the end, though it will be in the rain. I should also say that I went out in the morning and took some photos of some of the points of interest on the route, so eventually when I get organized and caught up on other postings I'm explicitly post the map with the photos and some comments.

Origines Cacao fail, Dalloyau

Tried to go to Origines Cacao, regretting not getting one of their cakes last time I checked there. Just wanted to do a simple run today, but found myself going relatively fast. It's 6.9 km, taking the usual route, and my time was about 37' (forgot to stop my chronometer at one red light, so I'm guessing from the 38'05'' that I recorded), which is good for the conditions. However, Origines Cacao closed early (6 pm) for reasons that I did not hang around reading the sign long enough to find out (just long enough to read a couple sentences of formal apologies), but it seemed to be just a today thing. I won't try going there again this week, though, I think. I should check the web site. Could be the butter shortage again (I know I failed to find unsalted butter for baking at three places, at least the regular stuff, versus the exotic expensive brands).

So I went to Dalloyau (getting a little lost because I'm used to coming from the other direction) and got the Tarte Fruits Rouge for 540 yen. It's a pistachio tart base with a little lemon cream to hold a strawberry and a ring of raspberries. It is excellent, and I'm happy to have had it and would enjoying having another one, although it is not exciting so I can't add it to the list of greats. I wonder what more lemon cream would have been like. These mostly fruit one never really thrill me.