Hotel de Ville markets, Paris

These markets are just behind the Hotel de Ville on the north bank of the river. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. I could have watched and explored for hours.  

Chicken pieces and skewers, seafood and vegetarian paella 

Hams and wursts, pizza and savoury pastries

Charcuterie, terrines, brawn, head cheese, rillettes

Mince, rolled roasts, cured ham, bacon, speck

Root vegetables

Beetroot

Lettuce

Goose, guinea-fowl capon (young rooster)

Ready-rolled venison (doe), mushroom sauce, stuffing of mushroom and armagnac

Rabbit galantine

Roast chicken

Whole roast suckling pig, chickens and turkey

Dried fruits, beans and nuts

Stonefruit, lychees, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, blackberries

Flavoured honey

Whelks

Rue Poncelet market, Paris

Rue Poncelet is in the 17th arrondissement, not far from the Arc de Triomphe / Etoile and the top of the Champs-Elysées. I thought the market was very beautiful.

Clementines are like a half-orange, half-mandarin. I can't get enough of them. 

Rolls of filleted fish, shellfish and crabs.

Ready-roasted turkey, beef, veal and lamb. 

Girolles are a beautiful autumn-winter forest mushroom. 

Mushroom pizza

The recipe for the pizza and dough is here. Yeastalicious.

Mother's Day meat-free lunch

I regressed to French, as usual. All recipes are from Damien Pignolet's French. He always has unusual yet very classic and beautiful recipes.
I made:

Pea, Lettuce and Watercress Soup with creme fraiche
Braised Kipflers, Mushrooms and Artichokes
Raspberry and Toasted Almond Tart

Afterwards we had two cheeses from Pennisi on Balaclava St: Brillat-Savarin, a beautiful meltingly soft ripe brie, and Valdeon, a Spanish vine-leaf-wrapped blue cheese.
The soup and the vegetables were easy and quick to do. The only tricky thing was the tart, and making the creme patissiere. I was nervous about the boiling milk and yolks, and then the rapid cooling and beating over a bowl of ice, but in the end, epic win. This tart reminded me of the St Honore from Laduree, and the Jocelyn's Provisions fruit tart.
We also had a loaf of sourdough that we hacked up throughout the meal. Mum was really happy with her yummy lunch, and she deserved it.