Le Snax

As many of my readers know, I enjoy making meals, and especially snacks, that I imagine to be quintessentially French. This is my latest iteration thereof: A little slice of a baguette. Beef terrine (a chunky paté that I got at Butcher and Larder, a trendy butcher shoppe that just opened down Milwaukee). Parmesan from Le Trader Joe's. A sliver of Black Spanish radish, which is really cool-looking.

A note about Butcher and Larder: meat-eaters reading this in Chicago should totally check it out. I was concerned about prices and/or excessive trendiness when I went there, because of how much hype it's gotten, and how they chop up one animal at a time and sell it bit-by-bit, etc., but it was actually pretty affordable and the people there were nice. I got a hunk of terrine, a hunk of Italian-style head cheese, and a big Italian sausage for under $10 total, and they answered my many questions about weird meat concoctions.











The terrine.












The Radish.












Here's kind of a cool one I made while writing this post, for which I sliced the radishes super-thin.












EDIT: This is the head cheese, which is much tastier than it sounds, and can also be eaten with bread and radishes.