Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
We live in the country. We have dogs on purpose. The rest of the critters lived here first but are always entertaining…. Well, sometimes.
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…
We’ve been having thunderstorms lately. Thunderstorms means no computer, no internet and no phone. With thunderstorms often there is heavy rain. Heavy rain means no TV reception. It seemed like a good time to look at cookbooks. I have a lot of ‘little’ cookbooks that I’ve bought over the years… one on pumpkins, one on … Continue reading…
Two weeks of cold and rain has not done wonders for my garden. It seems that compromise is not in the weather picture this year. On Wednesday I had a garden full of green tomatoes, just waiting for the sun to ripen. On Thursday they gave up, the plants turned brown and the tomatoes are … Continue reading…
Three Bean Salad is a summer classic – at least in the Midwest of the U.S. The ‘three beans’ are usually green and yellow string beans, and red kidney beans. Since I have three different beans growing in my potager, and a four bean salad would be boring. I decided on Five Bean Salad. The … Continue reading…
This is one of those dishes that turned out well even though I went at it all wrong. I’ve been doing that lately. I blame it on the dogs, but more about that later…. I got the idea from Anneli at Delicieux and her Chard Panade. As usual, I read the recipe, liked it, decided … Continue reading…
I haven’t done a chard post in a bit…. I’m guessing it’s been about 9 months since I picked the last of it. It’s been slow to start this yeas (as has everything else), but it’s finally getting big enough to pick. Could it be that summer is here? Warm Barley and Chard Salad Total … Continue reading…
These, along with the Carrot Cake, are the reasons I don’t bake. There is absolutely no point in making something that is not incredibly delicious. I mean, why bother baking something that doesn’t taste good? And, after going through all the work of making it, one certainly can’t just throw away the leftovers, now can … Continue reading…