Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Main Course Pasta, Rice, and Grain Salads make easy dinners for summer.
This is a warm salad rather than a hot pasta main course. It’s summer. We like food that can be finished, and then left to sit a bit while we enjoy the sunset and a glass of chilled rosado. We never been particularly precise about mealtimes. We tend to be even more relaxed, both with … Continue reading…
Now that we are free to travel more than 100 km from home we are heading to the Asian Supermarket. It’s summer and I am out of, or almost out of, hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, teriyaki sauce, 2 kinds of soy sauce and lots of stuff I won’t know I need until I see it. … Continue reading…
One more pasta salad for summer. This is my personal favorite. Mon Mari doesn’t really like tuna salad of any sort. That means, of course, that I get it all for myself and can make it anyway I like. This is only vaguely similar to the Tuna Salad I grew up with. I added a … Continue reading…
I remember going to a family reunion in the 80’s….. Family reunions were a summer staple when I was growing up. There would be my mother’s mother’s family reunion, my mother’s father’s family reunion, my father’s mother’s…… You get the idea. Regardless of which ‘side’ was holding the reunion, it was always held in a … Continue reading…
One cannot live on summer squash alone. Sometimes, one just needs to be able to open a can and call it dinner…. sort of. Besides, chickpeas, and all the other legumes, are good for us and should be included in our diet periodically (she says, self-righteously). And easy… We like easy. The only real disadvantage … Continue reading…
Last winter, at a dinner for 100+ people in the village, the chefs served a starter that was a half avocado filled with salad. We were all amazed that they managed to get 50+ avocados all ripe for the same day. I’ve rarely managed to pick out one ripe avocado. At the supermarket I noticed … Continue reading…
This is not a proper Caesar Salad. A proper Caesar Salad is made with Romaine lettuce, and dressed with a raw egg, crushed anchovies, olive oil and lots of garlic. And it’s made by mon mari….. This is a very lose take on it, made by me, after the lettuce is gone but the weather … Continue reading…