Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
The theme for Monday posts in March is Fun with Pastry. No, I’m not making pastry nor am I giving recipes for pastry. I buy it. The recipes will be using purchased puff pastry or phyllo (filo) dough. Both puff pastry and phyllo can be frozen and re-frozen (once). I’ve never made an Apple Strudel, … Continue reading…
A long time ago, in a land far, far way, we ate some roasted garlic. If I remember the incident, it was spring, probably Easter or Mother’s Day, and we were having dinner with my parents. We had lamb the night before, and I had roasted 2 whole heads of garlic to go with it. … Continue reading…
A few years ago Israeli Couscous was all the rage among U.S. food bloggers. I’d never heard of, living in the middle of nowhere, France but it looked a lot like the Ancini de Pepe (frog’s eyes) pasta that I used to cook when I lived in the U.S. I was in a Portuguese shop … Continue reading…
I don’t remember why I called these Mexican Chicken Thighs. Was it the green pepper? The spices? The sweet corn? I’m thinking it was the sweet corn. Sweet corn was a summer staple where I grew up, with farm trucks on every corner selling it for most of the summer. In winter we had our … Continue reading…
The theme for Monday posts in March is Fun with Pastry. No, I’m not making pastry nor am I giving recipes for pastry. I buy it. The recipes will be using purchased puff pastry or phyllo (filo) dough. Both puff pastry and phyllo can be frozen and re-frozen (once). Mini Pizzas are fun to make, … Continue reading…
We get peeled shrimp for which we are both very grateful. Mon mari is grateful because he doesn’t have to peel them and I’m grateful because I don’t have to listen to him complain. My hands turn red and itchy when I peel shrimp. Luckily I have no problems eating them. Of course the last … Continue reading…
It’s Greek Village Bread! The actual name is horiatiko psomi, pronounced hoh-ree-AH-tee-koh psoh-MEE. A side comment… why do Mediterranean languages like to start words with a P + consonant combo’ – and pronounce it? Saying ‘sp’ is easy (for us) but ‘ps’ is not. And the French have ‘pn’ (a tire is ‘pneu’) which is … Continue reading…
