One of the things I have missed since living on this side of the pond is easy access to good Mexican food.
Actually, I’d be happy with difficult access to mediocre Mexican food….
The best I can do is the Old El Paso section of … Continue reading.....
I have one more tomato soup recipe from this season. This one finished the bags of mixed tomatoes that I was peeling and freezing every day in September.
The nice thing about soup is that one can use up all of the odd bits lurking … Continue reading.....
There may be readers who doubt that I can do a recipe with only two ingredients.
They would be wrong.
Pommes Anna is a classic French dish that has only two ingredients: Potatoes, Butter.
It is truly wondrous what the French can do with only … Continue reading.....
I had a limited vegetable diet before I moved to this side of the pond: asparagus, beans, peas, corn, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, red & white kidney beans, rutabagas (a Norwegian thing)….
I ate pumpkin, of course, but only in pie.
Since I’ve lived here … Continue reading.....
I’ve posted this before – but ’tis the season and all so I thought I’d do it again.
For anyone looking for a quick, easy holiday dessert this is it….
As everyone knows, I don’t do pie crusts, therefor no pies, specifically, no pumpkin pie.… Continue reading.....
If I was trendy I would call this a ‘sheet pan dinner’.
I’m not trendy and I don’t have sheet pans.
For some reason, maybe because ovens here are small, sheet pans are not popular, One could say they are almost non-existent.
The cookie sheets … Continue reading.....
This is a classic Hungarian dish, modified for a quick, mid-week dinner using chicken breasts rather than a whole chicken.
I, of course, just used sweet paprika, but adding a tbs of hot paprika would be more traditional.
Or add a few hot peppers or … Continue reading.....
Usually stuffed peppers are topped with cheese.
I decided to put fresh mozzarella inside the peppers instead.
The recipe says ‘2 or 3 peppers’ because I have no idea how big your peppers will be. Sometimes they are huge and other times small…. Decide for … Continue reading.....
Tomato season goes something like this, chez nous:
Week 1: plant tomatoes in potager.
Weeks 2 – 6: water, weed, wait.
Week 7: see first, teeny-tiny tomato.
Weeks 8 – 12: go out every day and look to see how they’re growing.
Weeks 13 – … Continue reading.....
The first time I made these was for Thanksgiving dinner at my sister’s house, way back in the beginning of time. Our holiday dinners were always big, with lots of family and everyone contributing.
My nephews were tweens or early teens (they’re now 40’s). As … Continue reading.....
