Healthy Food . . . . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . . . . Easy Recipes . . . . . . & Musing from an Expat in France
Sauces, pickles, marinades, salad dressings, and more.
Remember all of those tomatoes? I know you have been losing sleep due to curiosity as to what I would do with them all. They’ve been ‘dealt with’. The ripe ones were turned into Garden Tomato Soup and the 4 kilos (9 pounds) of green ones were divided according to shape and size. 2 kilos … Continue reading…
This is a first. To the best of my knowledge I have never posted a 2 ingredient recipe before. It will probably create all sorts of problems with Google’s algorithms – I can almost see the emails now: Recipe missing ingredients, …. I actually thought I had posted this before. Faced with a counter full … Continue reading…
When I lived in the U.S. I did a lot of canning (bottling to the Brits). I would order bushels of tomatoes and pickling cukes, pick up a few flats of peaches, take a few days off from work, and happily spend time in my kitchen preserving and pickling. I made mustard pickles, sweet pickles, … Continue reading…
First one sees a few flowers on the tomato plants. Then the cherry tomato starts with a few tiny green orbs. A week or 2 later there are the first cherry tomatoes but the big, full-size tomatoes seem such a long way off. A week or 2 after that the freezer is full of soup, … Continue reading…
I’ve posted this before, but it’s worth repeating for two reasons: First – it really is the ‘Very Best Mustard Sauce’. It’s made be almost everyone in my large, extended family and, for some, it’s the only reason to have ham. I actually make it without the requisite ham. We like it on chicken, turkey, … Continue reading…
Okay, not really…. but my pretty Christmas tree napkins were noticed on my Christmas table: And a request was made for instructions. As a picture speaks more than a thousand words….. 1. Start with a square napkin folded in half, then in half again. 2. Turn the four loose (not folds) corners up. … Continue reading…
Another Christmas tradition is this easy cranberry sauce. Naturally, the recipe is lost somewhere in the mists of time…. which seems to be happening a lot lately. It’s easy, keeps well and the ginger adds a bit of spicy interest to the cranberries. If you have any cranberries lurking in the fridge – try this! … Continue reading…
