Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Winter Vegetables. We have to buy them but they are wonderful. This is a collection of in-season winter vegetables.
We have actual visible… and audible, progress this week. Naturally it started with a moment of panic. Did I really buy a ‘white with blue stripes’ vent hood for my cook top? Was I in that big of a hurry? Then I remembered the Hot Pink Shower…. Yes, it was the protective coating… and it … Continue reading…
Broccoli with Garlic chips Progress…. Sometimes it’s visible and goes in vast leaps. Sometimes it’s hidden, buried underground, as it were. The big story today is the windows. We don’t have a lot of them, by American standards, but they are big, and, today, they are being replaced. This is our kitchen window. Yes, only … Continue reading…
Split Peas with Bacon and Ham Karmic balance has been restored in my life. After a, somewhat less than perfect day, yesterday. this one started out good and kept getting better. First, our house's internal workings were given a clean bill of health: The septic tank was pumped and power-scrubbed, getting rid of 50+ years … Continue reading…
Turned Potatoes and Carrots Vlad's house is an IKEA house. I have nothing against IKEA. I rather like IKEA. I can spend hours wandering through there stores. Well, actually, that's how long it takes to follow the little footprints and elbow one's way through the crowds. I think they make very good stuff, particularly for … Continue reading…
Braised Sunchokes Continuing on with catching up: The memes: 1. The Expatriate Chef tagged me with this "Memoir Meme". It is based on a bet Hemingway made that he could sum up his life in six words. As it has always been a challenge for me to use fewer rather than more words, I accepted … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe Gilli, from So So Simple Food, sent me a hilarious account of how some of us can be terribly busy all day long and end up with less done than we started with. It reminds me of an old saying: "The Hurrier I go the Behinder I get!" Part of it … Continue reading…
I’m not having a good day. If my day were Brussels Sprouts it would look like this: It all started yesterday. I went happily off to do the shopping, but in a different store/town then I usually go to. I had to pick up medicine for Sedi. She’s becoming incontinent (see prior post on carpets) … Continue reading…