Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Side dishes or small dishes for lunch. All with few ingredients, little prep and easy cooking.
Last year, by the end of August, I had bags of green beans in my freezer, and a few quarts (litres) of green bean soup as well. This year I have none frozen for winter and my poor plants have been struggling to give me enough for a meal every week or so. Luckily for … Continue reading…
I will not go into the the difference between sweet potatoes and yams, other than to see that most of you have never had a yam. Yams are much larger than sweet potatoes, have a very rough skin and are a tropical tuber. Sweet potato flesh comes white, orange, and yellow which started the confusion. … 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…
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…
This combines two of my favorite foods: asparagus & risotto. In Italy this would be served as ‘primo piatto’ or first course…. after the starter (antipasto) and before the meat or fish (secondo piatto). We usually have it with the meat or fish, as a side dish. If there’s any leftover (rare) it becomes a … 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…
This uses fresh spinach rather than my winter staple of frozen spinach. It’s spring, after all, and spinach is a spring vegetable. I will admit that I spent a few years loving spinach salads but avoiding cooked spinach. Now I love both. I don’t know about other places, but here we buy spinach for salad … Continue reading…