This is the time of year that people with vegetable gardens start to get creative.
Perhaps desperate is a better word.
After months of delighting in green squash and yellow squash and fresh, sun-ripened tomatoes and green beans and, and, and…. one almost starts to hope for winter and a butternut squash.
What one does start doing is combining vegetables, … Continue reading.....
I used to love watching Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats’ when I happened to be in the U.S. It was sometimes corny, usually fun and almost always educational.
One thing I learned, which I have tried on occasion, is slow roasting….. really slow. One sets the oven temperature to the temperature you want the finished food to be, and then ignore … Continue reading.....
It’s fitting for September.
The dog days of summer are over; the temps are cooling (or so I hear) and people are starting to get ready for the cold days ahead.
Why not go a little crazy first?
And make Pull-apart Bread; aka Tear and Share.
Does the ‘Wild’ in the name mean that one does not need utensils to … Continue reading.....
She wasn’t supposed to be ours.
We had just lost Emma and Sedi and were debating whether or not to get another dog.
When we called our friend in Spain to let him know Emma had died (he had given her to us) he told us that Misty had just had a litter.
The rest, as they say, is history.… Continue reading.....
A mandolin is one of those kitchen tools that I don’t use often but is indespensible when I need it.
It makes short work of potatoes for gratins, and zucchini for these rolls.
Mine happens to be an expensive stainless steel mandolin that I bought from Williams Sonoma many years ago.
Before that, though, I had a cheap plastic version … Continue reading.....
I never ate chard before I moved to the middle of nowhere, France.
Rainbow chard became popular in the US back when I was sitll flying back and forth frequently.
I bought some seeds and the rest, as they say, is history.
Rainbow chard is different than the chard that I see in the markets, It has thin stems (mostly) … Continue reading.....
One more pasta salad for summer.
This is my personal favorite.
Mon Mari doesn’t really like tuna salad of any sort.
That means, of course, that I get it all for myself and can make it anyway I like.
This is only vaguely similar to the Tuna Salad I grew up with.
I added a fresh tomato…. My mother would … Continue reading.....
No one (that I know of) has said that a crumble has to be sweet. Well, maybe Google…..
The difference between a crumble and a crisp, according to Google, is that a crisp normally contains oats and a crumble doesn’t.
It also says that both are a fruit dessert but I dare to be different.
Why can’t they be a … Continue reading.....
