Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Random musings and comments and insights from an American Expat living in France.
Even here in the (supposedly) laid-back Midwest everyone is in a hurry. If one hesitates a nano-second after the light turns green, the honking starts. Multi-tasking is the rule: People driving, eating and talking on their ‘cell’ phones, all at the same time, all of the time. It’s kind of scary for us country bumpkins … Continue reading…
In most of the small towns (and the larger ones) near where I grew up fine-dining has kind of gone out of style. 30 years ago there were nice restaurants and supper clubs where one could get a shrimp cocktail, salad wedge of Iceberg lettuce with blue cheese dressing and a good steak, fish, or … Continue reading…
For years mon mari and I traveled together. Then we moved to Ireland/Andorra/France and it changed. For the first five years I was still working in the U.S. and flew back and forth 5 or 6 times a year, by myself. Mon mari would join me every two years or so. Since I quit working … Continue reading…
International travel has changed since we first ventured across the pond. It used to be a pleasure….well, if not a pleasure at least tolerable; an opportunity to catch up on the reading; relax without the phones ringing; a time to reflect and to plan the upcoming trip. Now, it’s just a challenge to be endured; … Continue reading…
Minneapolis used to be famous for its lakes, Minnesota being the ‘Land of 10,000 Lakes and Minneapolis having over a hundred of them in the metro area. Life in summer was centered around water – boating, skiing, swimming and just walking, biking or roller-blading around lakes. That is where people went to see, be seen, … Continue reading…
I grew up on the Mississippi River – no, not on a raft like Huck Finn, but in one of the many small towns on either side. The one I grew up in, on the Wisconsin side (the other side being Minnesota), had a population of 287 when I was born. Now it is 285. … Continue reading…
Minnesota and Wisconsin are in the frozen north of the U.S. – at least in the winter. In the summer it’s hot. In Minneapolis the thermometer can dip to -40F (-40C) in the winter and top out at 100F (38C) in the summer. Then there is the ‘wind-chill factor’ (winter) and hordes of mosquitoes and … Continue reading…