When I received an offer to post an article on the cuisine of the Philippines I thought: great! I love to learn about the foods and cooking of other cultures and I was totally unfamiliar with Filipino cooking. After I read the article I was still unfamiliar – but the food looked good and I was intrigued. Google to the rescue. I looked up a few of the ingredients, just … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago I got an email asking if I would be interested in posting an article about bass fishing. As we live in the middle of French farm country I said no…. We are not exactly a bass – or any, fishing paradise. I mentioned it to mon mari later and he started reminiscing about his bass fishing days. Then I started remembering how important bass fishing was … Continue reading →
We’ve been having summer in bits for the last few weeks. Beautiful sunny mornings followed by cold rainy afternoons followed by warm evenings. Or the opposite. But the grills (all 4 of them) are out and begging to be used. Mon mari is determined…. Although sometimes he ends up cooking inside the barn because the weather turns nasty. Still, it is almost full summer and we are thinking positive, so … Continue reading →
I may have said in the past that I would never eat out of a mason jar. Jars are for canning (bottling for the Brits). I did a lot of canning when I lived in the US and I had a lot of mason jars. I never ate out of one. However….. Opinions change. I have, in the past, used a lot of plastic: plastic bags, plastic storage containers, plastic … Continue reading →
This is a post that, while it doesn’t really pertain to us, might be useful to the rest of the world. I know (I assume I know) from watching TV that a lot of the world regularly orders food from restaurants,,,, aka: takeout. Typically, it’s a situation comedy of some sort where one person asks the other what they would like for dinner, then pulls out a folder of restaurant … Continue reading →
An Australian friend of mine once told me about a wonderful machine that cooked and pureed and baked and did just about everything one could want and did it all by itself. She also told me that it was outrageously expensive so I promptly forgot what it was called. But the idea stayed with me….. At least the part about making soup did. I make a lot of soup. The … Continue reading →
I get, on average, 3 requests to do a guest post every day. Typically, they start out by telling me how much they love this blog and then ask to promote an on-line gambling site. For the record, I am not opposed to gambling. I’ve played more than a few hands of blackjack in Las Vegas myself. I am, however, opposed to online gambling. But, regardless of my personal opinion, … Continue reading →
