It’s still salad season….. But the salads have switched from greens to grains or, in this case, pasta. Any kind of salad is welcome when the summer heat hits. In winter I love hearty soups and stews and lasagnes but in summer I want something light and easy that comes together with a minimal amount of work. And when half of that work is done outside by mon mari it’s … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago I got an email asking if I would be interested in posting an article about bass fishing. As we live in the middle of French farm country I said no…. We are not exactly a bass – or any, fishing paradise. I mentioned it to mon mari later and he started reminiscing about his bass fishing days. Then I started remembering how important bass fishing was … Continue reading →
Zucchini (Italian), summer squash (English), courgette (French)… what’s in a name. I have 4 plants: white, yellow, green stripe and round. I’ve been making soup for the freezer, shredding them for the freezer, making Lemon Bread, Chocolate Bread, Spice Bread, and eating them at least once for every meal. As much as I don’t like hot weather (97F on Monday, 100F tomorrow) I am oddly grateful that the summer squashes … Continue reading →
The cheese is on the inside. I like 2 kinds of burgers: one is a cheeseburger with fried onions, pickles, ketchup, and mustard and the other is a burger topped with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise, aka a California burger. Substitutions or different combinations are not allowed. Of course that assumes I can eat the one of my choice on a proper hamburger bun….. which I can’t because we don’t have … Continue reading →
I’m not certain where I get my frugal tendencies. It really doesn’t matter – I have them. At least I have them when it comes to my potager. Maybe it’s because I nurse the plants along: watering them, monitoring them, and protecting them (as best I can). Once they start producing edible food I have a very hard time sending it to the compost. That’s true even of the ones … Continue reading →
I used to always steam our vegetables. I don’t know why I’ve abandoned that habit. I may have stopped when we lived in Andorra and I had to adjust to high-altitude cooking. The reason is lost in the mists of time. I only ever had the old-fashioned basket steamer. I seem to remember a bamboo steamer for a short time….. Now, like most other kitchen toys, the new steamers are … Continue reading →
Last year we had so much lettuce I nearly filled our compost container to over-flowing. We ate it twice a day for weeks and it never looked like we picked any. I gave it to neighbors and friends by the sackful. This year, after stringing CD’s everywhere, we manged to have 4 main course dinner salads, and we each had one, big lunch salad. Then, even though it never grew … Continue reading →
