I love breakfast. I just don’t particularly love it first thing in the morning. I have friends whose partners regularly bring them a cup of hot coffee or tea for them to sip in bed. I’m too impatient. I want to be up and out and see what the day is like. Everyone in my family (that I know of) crawls out of bed, throws on a robe and sits … Continue reading →
We live in France. We have a cave (wine cellar). Everyone does. When we lived in the Vendee it was underground. Here it’s tucked into a low corner of the barn. It’s also our fruit & vegetable cellar. Our wine cellar got it’s start thanks to Haskell’s Nickel sale when we still lived in Minnesota. When we first started regularly drinking wine we would buy 1 or 3 bottles every … Continue reading →
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 →
