It’s stuffed vegetable season! I love stuffed vegetables: onions, peppers, squashes, mushrooms, tomatoes. I fix them often in the fall . Since most vegetables need to be done in the oven I need to wait until the weather is cool enough. 2 weeks ago it was 35C (95F); last week it was 30C (86F); today is 12C (54F). Apparently we’re going from summer to winter without pausing at fall. Why … Continue reading →
I received several recipes for Fried Green Tomatoes; some baked, some with cheese, all sounding delicious. Sadly, all of them called for stuff I didn’t have on hand, like buttermilk. I’ve never seen buttermilk here. I can buy kefir, which I used to do when we lived in Andorra, but it wasn’t available when we moved to France. It is now, but I’ve gotten so used to using natural yogurt … Continue reading →
I keep trying to maintain my reputation of being a cook, not a baker, but I must confess I dearly love sweets. But I don’t like all sweets. I need strong flavors, not just sugar. Even as a kid I never ate the cotton candy at the local fairs. I pass on white cakes (bakery cakes, wedding cakes, birthday cakes – never touch ’em). I love fruit desserts – but … Continue reading →
Remember all of those tomatoes? I know you have been losing sleep due to curiosity as to what I would do with them all. They’ve been ‘dealt with’. The ripe ones were turned into Garden Tomato Soup and the 4 kilos (9 pounds) of green ones were divided according to shape and size. 2 kilos (4 lbs) went into the relish, 3 kilos (3.5 lbs) went into pickles and the … Continue reading →
I was sorting photos the other day and I saw one of my potager a year ago. It was lush, green and beautiful. This year it’s dead, dying, brown and barren. I don’t remember ever having the vegetables finish this early. Today I picked the last of the Delicata squash. Some aren’t ripe but the vines were dead so they got pulled. The summer squash were still blossoming, but none … Continue reading →
When I had an offer by someone to write an article on salmon cooking techniques I thought – why not? We eat a lot of salmon, maybe I’ll learn some new tips. I like the marinade for the baked salmon – I don’t use honey often enough. And I rarely (read never) use the broiler…. So there are a couple of nuggets for me. The rest is pretty straight forward … Continue reading →
This is the first time in awhile that I haven’t been able to say or do something creative with the bread of the month. I’m flattened…. However, the Babes managed to go over-the-top with creativity with this fluffy, Indian flat bread. That was not an oxymoron. It’s a fluffy flat bread. Aparna, of My Diverse Kitchen, and the host kitchen for this month, brought the monthly baking challenge home to … Continue reading →
