Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Eating in Europe. The foods can be different, the manners can be different, and the results can be hilarious…. after the fact.
Go directly to recipe Just as Sangria and Gazpacho are national dishes of Spain, Moules Frites is the quintessential French summer food. One sees it on chalk menu boards on the sidewalks and cardboard signs in the windows, everywhere, all summer long, sometimes as the only item advertised. And when Moules Frites are on the … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe Bread Pudding. In my youth and inexperience, I could not imagine a poorer excuse for a treat. A sickly sweet concoction of soggy bread and stale, dried currents, I viewed it more as punishment than reward. Even smothering it in chocolate sauce could not make it edible (but, at least, you … Continue reading…
Spain is hot! It may be cool in winter and can be cold and snowy in the mountains (great ski resorts!), but for most of the year it is hot and the Spanish food reflects this. It also reflects the abundant variety of fruits and vegetables grown everywhere. One often finds some sort of vegetable … Continue reading…
Nothing more clearly defines a culture than food: kinds of food, dining hours, eating habits, etc. This is never more obvious here than in warm weather. The French are a very orderly people. They are not given to change easily and are somewhat leery of trying new things. (I brought Boston Baked Beans to a … Continue reading…
I grew up in the Midwestern U.S…..and I have never figured out why the world refers to those 5 states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and both Dakotas) as the 'Midwest' when they are so obviously 'Midnorth'…there is nothing western about them! I digress. The only water critters we had access to for dinner were what we … Continue reading…
The Portuguese part….The hotel we stayed at in Portugal,the Pestana Golf Hotel had just opened in April so they were still getting the 'kinks' out. Rather than a proper restaurant, they were offering a buffet for breakfast and dinner. There might have been a clue that they were catering to the Brit's when I saw … Continue reading…
If you want the travelogue check out the photo album. This is going to be about the food. After all, which is more important: visiting an 8th century mosque or finding the best roast suckling lamb? If you don't know the answer just go look at the pretty pictures…Something you often find in a Spanish … Continue reading…