Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Main Course Green Salads, some with grilled chicken or sausage, some with easy pantry staples. All are great warm weather meals.
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…
I know it’s August, but I still have a few salad recipes to post. It’s still summer and lots of people actually buy lettuce so they can enjoy it for more then the short growing season. For more ambitious gardeners, one can plant lettuce now to harvest in the cooler days of September. The salad … Continue reading…
Last year we had so much lettuce I nearly filled our compost container to over-flowing. We ate it twice a day for weeks and it never looked like we picked any. I gave it to neighbors and friends by the sackful. This year, after stringing CD’s everywhere, we manged to have 4 main course dinner … Continue reading…
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 … Continue reading…