I have a French potager. Well, of course I do. I also have French doors and windows and everything else…. I live in France. But my potager has taken it a step further…. It has French language cd’s floating above it. In my efforts to convince the birds to leave my lettuce and chard alone I strung cd’s everywhere I could attach a string. Rather than use music cd’s I … Continue reading →
There is still no bread flour or whole wheat flour available – at least not that I have found. Happily, for mon mari, lock-down has been lifted and he feels comfortable going to his favorite bakery for bread. Even better, one of the local asparagus growers has been parking his truck by the bakery and selling green and white asparagus. Spring is when the local farmers all bring their crops … Continue reading →
I no longer attempt to grow spinach in my potager. The first few years it was prolific and I had enough spinach for lots of salads. lots of gratins, and lots of soup for the freezer. Then the ants moved in. With the ants come the aphids (the ants farm aphids) and the aphids destroy the spinach. I disturb the ants as frequently and violently as I can but they … Continue reading →
This is a spring dish…. not winter comfort food but not yet summer grilling. It’s another favorite of ours. I seem to be revisiting past favorite dishes…. Is any one else doing that? Maybe it’s a subconscious effort to make life go back to normal. Of course it’s not working. Life going forward will be different than life in the past, That is as it should be. We, as a … Continue reading →
As with everything considered a classic, there are a lot of variations on a proper ‘Salade Niçoise’. Some have radishes; some bell peppers; some, like mine, have potatoes and green beans. All have olives and hard boiled eggs and tomatoes. All are on a bed of lettuce. Most have canned tuna; some have anchovies; some have both. Only trendy restaurants (in the U.S.) have fresh, seared tuna…. Purists have a … Continue reading →
This is the penultimate salad of this season. (I like that word….) We have been done eating them for a week or two but I didn’t want this to become a salad blog so I’m spacing the recipes. We even managed to have a few ripe cherry tomatoes at the same time there was lettuce in the garden, which is a rarity. Our heat wave broke on Friday. We had … Continue reading →
I still have a few salad recipes to post this summer. Unlike last summer, when we had no lettuce, this year we were inundated. We ate it as fast as we could. Considering the heat waves currently encompassing most of my world, I thought an easy salad would be appreciated. I would be more sympathetic to the heat in the US at the moment if we weren’t expecting temps to … Continue reading →
