Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Main Course Pastas: spaghetti, lasagne, short, long, baked, boiled, fast & easy, slow and easy…. and make enough for a few meals.
One of the tenets of Chinese and Japanese cuisines is that the food should be pleasing to the eye as well as the palate. I’m not familiar enough to know if that is also true of Korean or Vietnamese dishes. As to Thai and Indian – I have had a lot of exposure but only … Continue reading…
When we lived in the U.S. and I wanted a beef stir-fry, I would buy a flank steak. I haven’t been able to find an appropriate, reliable cut here for stir-fries or other dishes that use a short cooking time. I can now find wonderful steaks from our butcher, but someone frowns on me using … Continue reading…
In the before times, when I did our grocery shopping every week, I almost always bought mushrooms. We both like them and they’re good for us. I’m not going to repeat the health benefits but if you google ‘health benefits of mushrooms’ you’ll be amazed. I’ll give you 1 link on mushroom health benefits to … Continue reading…
I originally did this with larger pieces of chicken and the pasta cooked separately. I’ve really started to love skillet dinners lately so I decided to convert it. I would like to attribute this trend to my goal of becoming more efficient. Reality says it’s because I’ve gotten lazy. And some days I just don’t … Continue reading…
This is one of our favorite winter pasta dishes. The sauce is quickly made with ground beef and fresh mushrooms. I usually put a few slices of butternut squash in the oven to roast, then make the pasta sauce, and everything is ready in 30 minutes. Well, add 5 to heat the oven….. That gives … Continue reading…
Usually, when I make lasagne, I make enough for 2 meals. The quantities of the ingredients work well, it fits my favorite pan, and it’s nice to have a meal waiting with no work. But this was on Friday and we had plans for the weekend. I decided to make a lasagne for 2. It … Continue reading…
I love pasta. I could live on pasta. Maybe, if all I ate was pasta, I could learn to exercise self-control / portion control so I didn’t grow out of my clothes. Maybe I wouldn’t care. I also love tomato sauces of all kinds. We really should have moved to Italy, not France. Except then … Continue reading…