Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
A round-up of pasta dishes from around the world.
Making gnocchi is easy, if time-consuming, but doesn’t require any special equipment. Making pasta is easy – if you have some special equipment. Of course it’s really easy if you have the fancy equipment where you put the flour and … Continue reading…
I really hate it when I’m on the menu. I may have gloated on occasion, about our lack of mosquitoes. I may have mentioned that WE don’t need insecticides to get through summer. I may have felt superior about not … Continue reading…
How times flies when one is having fun! One is having fun…. Right? Right??? I had fun this week: reading new blogs, finding new pasta recipes, trying to get out of my cooking slump…. Nothing like traveling around the globe, … Continue reading…
I’d lost the will to cook. Not to eat, mind you…. That never goes away. Nor to drink…. So much wine; so little time. I’d simply lost the will to cook. It would appear that I have gotten into a … Continue reading…
No work to report on this week…. What with mon mari lazing around the hospital and all. He’s not being completely idle – he cleaned off a lawn chair, parked himself under the apple tree by the front gate and … Continue reading…
‘Mama said there’d be days like this…’ There is a Chinese curse: ‘May you live in interesting times.’ Yesterday was an ‘interesting’ day. It all started about 6am…. Our phone seldom rings. Our phone never rings at 6 in the … Continue reading…
I’m not sure what’s going on in my garden at night. I have radishes turning into big, hulking bullies. That could be the result of lack of discipline on my part as chief (and only) gardener. I accept the blame. … Continue reading…