Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Vegetables make a great first course or starter. And one can be a little more decadent or fancy when the serving is small.
Are the food police still recommending 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day? I just googled that. My statement regarding the ‘fruits and vegetables’ is correct, but the grammer made me want to check…. Is it 5 servings of fruits and 5 servings of vegetables? The answer is no. It’s 5 servings of fruits … Continue reading…
Please be assured that this is not a new trend. I am not going to start showing photos of a spoon, followed by a saucepan followed by an ingredient and so on. I am also not going to switch to fussy, complicated recipes. But….. Sometimes (okay, rarely) we like to do something a little fancy … Continue reading…
When I first planted summer squash I was told that the key to having a nice harvest without having to dispose of zucchini the size of a small car was to check them every day and pick them when they are small. I do. Sometimes that means that we each get a whole summer squash. … Continue reading…
I know I have written in the past about my love / hate relationship with spaghetti squash. When I was following the foodie crowds, cutting it in half length-wise and roasting it, I veered more to the hate side. Now that I know better (figured it out my ownself), cut it into rings width-wise and … Continue reading…
When I first started growing, and therefore, cooking, spaghetti squash I went with the conventional wisdom and cut the squash in half, lengthwise. Spaghetti squash are hard and challenging to cut, especially as my cleaver is not long enough to cut the big ones in one stroke. It occurred to me that cutting them in … Continue reading…
This is the last one, I promise. Mon mari has made me promise to pull the summer squash plants up. I’ve been planning on doing it for a few weeks, now, but every time I go out to the potager to rip them out I see new squashes growing. I think – just one more…. … Continue reading…
For the better part of 3 weeks I was closing windows and shutters to keep the heat out. For the last 2 days I’ve been closing them to keep the cold out. Maybe later in the week we’ll have a few days when the temperature is ‘just right’. After refusing to turn the oven on … Continue reading…