French yummyness and vintage bag

Yesterday, my love and i went for a stroll through the neighborhood. The heat was a little bit less than the days before so we were out there enjoying ourselves.
A couple of blocks from our apartment there is this terrific little French store, L'epicerie du Quartier. We had never really bought anything there, but always oohed and aahed at all the yummy things in the store window. And they also sell nice French bread! Which makes me glad since I'm not a great fan of the American Wonderbread. (Yeah, it's a wonder you can keep it for weeks and still eat it. Ha.)
My hubby was craving for some sundried tomatoes in olive oil. They only had plain sundried tomatoes, but the lady from the store was so sweet and explained exactly how to do it yourself, plus all these nice tips of what to add and how to make it even better tasting. She was so passionate, you could tell she really loves food. There were two men who were cooking and they were very helpful too. We ended up buying the tomatoes and some olives, fresh aioli and French goat cheese. Doesn't it all look totally yummy? We were like little kids in there! hihi.

Around the corner is Sodafine located. Last year my hubby already pointed it out to me, but back then i didn't took the time out to visit. Last week i was reading Sodafine's weblog and read that the store is going to move to Williamsburg next week. So of course i had to stop by at the Fort Greene location before it would disappear! I got all giddy inside. Oooh... all those wonderful items! Why didn't i visit before? Well, at least i did now. My hubby pointed out this great vintage John Romain bag which i just had to take with me!



I did do some creative shopping this week too, concurred the heat and went into the city. I'll make some pictures of the goodies and post them tomorrow!