Healthy Food . . . . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . . . . Easy Recipes . . . . . . & Musing from an Expat in France
Main Course Green Salads, some with grilled chicken or sausage, some with easy pantry staples. All are great warm weather meals.
It can be a compliment to become mildly famous, among one’s family and friends for a particular dish. It can also be a frustrating, irritating, never-ending pain in the ….. My mother was well-known for her Devil’s Food cake – which she loved to make. Whenever there was a family get together my aunt, her … Continue reading…
We’re eating more beans these days, thanks to my Instant Pot. They are so easy to make and taste so much better that I have been making some almost every week. It’s been especially nice during the spring months when I normally have to buy vegetables. Starting this week we’ll be eating vegetables from the … Continue reading…
Yes, I know that there is no such thing as Chicken Niçoise Salad. Salade Niçoise is a classic French recipe which has specific ingredients. It’s not an idea to be interpreted. It has canned, not fresh tuna. It has green beans, not yellow beans. Some of the vegetables are cooked, others are not. I would … Continue reading…
The lettuce I planted was red. The hearts were a pale green. As the spring wore on the outer, dark red leaves became more and more ‘holey’ thanks to the little gray slugs that live there. As the lettuce got larger the little gray slugs were joined by little snails. I actually prefer the snails … Continue reading…
Some of you may wonder why I always add potatoes to our main course salads. I don’t. Sometimes I add rice or quinoa. Sometimes, we just stop at the bakery and buy some interesting bread to have… but, usually we forget. The reason we always have carbs with our salad is because mon mari is … Continue reading…
When I planted the lettuce sets at the end of March the blurb that came with them said they would be ready in 4 weeks. I expected to have 36 heads of lettuce ready to eat on May 1. I didn’t expect to have such unseasonably cold weather. Lettuce is supposed to like cold weather…. … Continue reading…
Mozzarella pearls. They were new to me. I regularly see the normal-size ball of mozzarella di bufala, as well as the smaller balls and larger family-size mozzarella, both usually made with cow’s milk. But the pearls were new – and they were made with buffalo milk, not cow’s milk. Obviously, I had to buy them. … Continue reading…
