I used to love watching Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats’ when I happened to be in the U.S. It was sometimes corny, usually fun and almost always educational.
One thing I learned, which I have tried on occasion, is slow roasting….. really slow. One sets the oven temperature to the temperature you want the finished food to be, and then ignore … Continue reading.....
Do you own a set of cookware?
Or do you have an eclectic collection of mismatched pots and pans?
I have both….
My first set of cookware came with my first husband and was a wonderful ‘Country Brown’ non-stick set that I loved. Sadly, it was as short-lived as the marriage.
My second set came after my second (and current) … Continue reading.....
It’s finally summer!
Well, today is anyway….. We have hopes for more than one summer day in a row.
Summer means grilling outdoors, barbecuing, and smoking.
My longtime readers know we love to use our smoker – especially to make our favorite Smoked Pasta.
But we have an old, wood and / or charcoal smoker. A Facebook friend recently … Continue reading.....
We live in France…. We drink wine.
Maybe it would be simpler to say: We live; therefore we drink wine.
Even though I hail from Wisconsin I grew up drinking wine. My mother made wine every summer, as did most of our neighbors. Okay, to be honest, we didn’t have grapes so she made rhubarb, elder-blossom, or dandelion wine but … Continue reading.....
When we lived in the US we tended to have big parties with lots of people and lots of food.
Okay, maybe a bit of beer and wine, too.
They were the kind of parties where people nibbled and stood and talked.
Or, in summer, nibbled and sat around the pool and talked.
We didn’t have sit-at-the-table dinner parties which … Continue reading.....
Recently ma belle soeur and I were discussing multi-cookers, of which the Instapot is easily the most well-known (at least in the U.S.).
While they were extremely tempting and we both would like to own one, neither of us was ready to make the commitment – of both money and counter space.
The tricks in this guest post (and the … Continue reading.....
The polar vortex descended on the Midwestern US this week causing record cold temperatures.
Here in France (and Europe) we’ve been experiencing our own bad weather – bad enough that it has a name: Storm Gabriel.
There have been damaging winds, driving rain and cold (for us) temperatures all week.
Naturally I thought it appropriate to do a post about … Continue reading.....
My mother often cooked on a griddle.
She had a cast iron griddle that fit across the 2 front burners on her gas range. It was perfect for making pancakes.
But it was even better for frying potatoes and pork chops – a favorite dinner when I was growing up.
My mother always fried potatoes in bacon fat that she … Continue reading.....
