Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Stir Fries and Skillet Dinners are for those night when we want to eat good food but don’t have time to fuss.
Happy Earth Day! The theme for this year is 'A Billion Acts of Green'. I checked out the Earth Day site looking for an idea for a topic. I thought about carrying reusable shopping bags, which I've been doing for years. I thought about walking more and driving less; keeping the house at 66F (I … Continue reading…
Today was a good day. It started yesterday when we decided to go to the Carrefour to do the shopping. We had just been there the week before (it's the only store that sold the diapers/bed pads I used for Sedi's bed. Sigh…. ). When I checked out the cashier asked if I was interested … Continue reading…
Every Sunday I haul myself up the treacherous barn stairs to do the weekly photos – and check-up on mon mari’s work. To give him credit, he knows when I’ll be coming and tries to have something nice for me to post. Also, to give him credit, in deference to my extreme dislike of such … Continue reading…
Did I ever tell you about the time I was chased out of a restaurant by a really pissed off Chinese chef brandishing his favorite, very large, very sharp, cleaver? I ran across this post when I was reorganizing the Recipe Index… Thought I'd share again…. The setting: I was installing a computerized ordering system … Continue reading…
Fall is here. One can find big baskets of wild mushrooms In the supermarkets as well as small baskets offered for sale by the side of the road. The crack of gun-fire announces the dawn as the hunters are out in droves, searching for deer, boar, birds and bunnies. And there are dead animals in … Continue reading…
I was just on holiday for 2 1/2 weeks….. It went like this: I spent 3 weeks frantically busy getting ready for it. I was busy every day and every evening while I was gone. I've spent the week since I've been home frantically busy catching up. What's wrong with this picture? Every summer we … Continue reading…
I played hooky yesterday. It was cold, but the sun was shining, and when mon mari said he was off to buy plumbing supplies I decided to go along for the ride. Not that I’m terribly interested in plumbing supplies, but I figured we’d be passing a garden store or two that we could stop … Continue reading…