Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Easy, simple foods with just a few basic ingredients, minimum prep time and quick (or hands-off) cooking time. Simple – for summer.
In the U.S., when we lived there, one could get ground turkey, whole turkey tenderloins and breasts, turkey kegs, and whole turkeys. Here one can get turkey cutlets, turkey leg & thigh (together – great for soup), and whole turkeys at Christmas. I have even seen wings on occasion. We love turkey cutlets. They’re thin, … Continue reading…
Or Baby Caprese Courgette. As I have explained in the past: zucchini is the Italian word for summer squash and courgette is the French word. In the U.S. all green summer squash are called zucchini while the other colors are called summer squash. So one can find a recipe that calls for zucchini and / … Continue reading…
The theme for Monday Posts in June is Salads. All types of salads – although there are only 4 Mondays we shall try for variety. The only similarity is that they will be ‘side’ salads, rather than main course salads. Those will come later. You can find more Lettuce & Vegetable Salads and / or … Continue reading…
This is an old-fashioned salad… Sort of. My mother would have / could have made this salad. She would have used canned peas and Miracle Whip but you get the idea. I needed a salad of some sort for our bike ride picnic. Since I hadn’t been to the store or market in over a … Continue reading…
This is another recipe that we’ve been making forever…. Except, somewhere along the way, we forgot about it. We started making more complicated marinades and doing fussy things with the humble chicken breast. I resurrected this recipe earlier this week and we both agreed that we should have it at least once a week for … Continue reading…
Actually, it’s a rubbed and barbecued pork tenderloin. I’m not certain when people started specifying that meat be ‘rubbed’. I’m also not certain why they felt a need to. My mother, and I’m certain her mother, always ‘seasoned’ meat before cooking. It was just what one did. No need to make a big deal about … Continue reading…
The theme for Monday Posts in May is Potatoes. Potatoes are a very misunderstood vegetable. Yes, they are a vegetable, plus they are healthy. Potatoes have vitamins C and B6, potassium, copper, manganese and dietary fiber. They offer cardiovascular protection, have a potential for lowering blood pressure and have a variety of phytonutrients with antioxidant … Continue reading…