Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Breads, Biscuits and Sweet (Tea) Breads). Oatmeal Biscuits, Pumpkin Bread, Sandwich Bread and more….
I’ve posted this before but I’ve been making it so often lately I thought I’d share again. There was a time when I wouldn’t touch Zucchini Bread. I found the thought of it totally unappealing. But, when one tosses chocolate into the mix it bears a closer look. When one adds two kinds of chocolate and … Continue reading…
This year, for the first time, I didn’t have to search or make a special trip to a fancy store to find cranberries. They started appearing in early November, weeks before I was ready for them. Even my local supermarket has had them for the last few weeks. I can only hope that they have … Continue reading…
This used to be Pumpkin Bread, a traditional holiday treat in the US (at least in my family). I prefer butternut squash to pumpkin as a winter vegetable and I really don’t have enough room in my potager to grow one pumpkin for a Christmas bread plus all the butternut squash (and acorn and spaghetti … Continue reading…
I’m a Baking Babe again! As the other Bread Baking Babes know, I more or less retired from active bread baking when mon mari had his pancreas removed a few years ago (thus becoming a Type 1 diabetic). Still….. The other Babes thought I might enjoy getting up to my elbows in flour again so … Continue reading…
I very carefully check my summer squash plants every day, picking them when they are small so they don’t get out of control. It never works…… Mon mari wanted a big one, He likes to slice them and cook them on the barbecue, and he likes them about 3 inches in diameter. I picked out … Continue reading…
It’s soup season. For me there are only two things that make winter tolerable. The first is that I don’t have a long list of outdoor chores every day – no hoeing and mowing and trimming and all that sort of stuff. The second is the soup. I love soup. Mon mari accepts soup…. As … Continue reading…
It's important (so I'm told) to keep one's brain in tip-top shape by learning new things. Here are some odd bits from the week – things I've learned and things in the news: French news: In July it becomes law in France that every car has to have a breath test kit so that one … Continue reading…