Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Info on food – keeping, storing, buying, and using all the odd bits that are needed in the kitchen.
This is a bit far removed from my usual recipes, but it IS food related. And health related. And age related – sort of. It seems that more family members and friends are getting knees and hips and whatever replaced. The ones that aren’t getting replacements are injuring themselves. Both of my walking partners have … Continue reading…
Great coffee can do more than just wake us up and improve our mood. It can also improve the planet. In early December I received an email offering me free coffee. There were a few things wrong with the idea….. I live in France. Companies offer me free stuff, find out a live in France, … Continue reading…
Meal kit deliveries have been around for a few years now. I think I wrote the first post on them 4 or 5 years ago. Two yeas ago I even tried one for a week – although it was not fresh food. It was packaged, shelf-stable meals and they were actually very good. I didn’t … Continue reading…
Twenty years ago, when we lived in Andorra, two members of our walking group were vegetarian. I was familiar with the life choice but had never actually gotten to know a person who embraced it. One of them was very matter-of-fact about it and and just lived her life as she chose. The other preached. … Continue reading…
It’s summer, finally. When I was a kid summer meant going to the beach. I grew up on the Mississipi. The beach we went to was on the river…. a big river with a lot of barge traffic. And a lot of fish and mud clams and all sorts of stuff one doesn’t find in … Continue reading…
Other than nights following an over-indulgence in all things alcoholic (Ah, those days of youthful abandon….) I don’t recall ever sleeping through an entire night without waking up at least once. As I have gotten older (it happens) I wake up more frequently. The first time I wake up I have a big glass of … Continue reading…
Ramen was not part of my youth. Living in a small town in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the Midwest I didn’t have access to these exotic ‘foreign’ foods. We could get lobster tail at the only café in our small town, but there was no pizza to be had anywhere. Our … Continue reading…