Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Savoyard means to be cooked in the manner of Savoy, a mountainous region in the east of France, bordering Switzerland. It often involves a layer of creamy, melted cheese – like Gruyère, which is from Switzerland. My original recipe, came from one of those recipe cards from the beginning of time and was made with … Continue reading…
I love quail eggs. They are so cute and perfectly bite-size. If only they weren’t so challenging to work with. The shells are harder than chicken egg shells and the interior membrane thicker. They are tiny but one has to make more of an effort to crack them to use fresh or to peel them … Continue reading…
One last asparagus recipe for those of you lucky enough to still be eating asparagus. Adapted from the book ‘!,000 Chinese Recipes’, this is wonderful as a vegetable, on a bit of lettuce as a first course salad, or as part of a Chinese meal. Plus it’s best if made ahead and served at room … Continue reading…
This is one of our favorite spring salads. It has all the right ingredients: fresh greens, asparagus and green garlic. Add capers, olives and tomatoes and I could easily eat it every day at least once. Sadly, I’m forced into buying my salad greens this year but at least I have a lot of choices … Continue reading…
Spring and fall are seasons of firsts and lasts in our kitchen. This is the last risotto of the season, made with the last of the green asparagus and the first of the fresh herbs. Because the weather has been typical of May (cold rain followed by hot sunshine followed by cold rain and so … Continue reading…
Asparagus season is coming to an end. I haven’t seen the lovely purple asparagus in two weeks and this week the green asparagus wasn’t available. There were piles and piles of white asparagus, however, so we’re still okay for another week or too. Whew! One of the things that happens as we get to the … Continue reading…
I decided to make these for dinner the other night. I went on to my blog to grab the recipe and realized it didn’t have a print option. To make life easier for me the next time I want to make them I decided to fix that. For all of you who have not seen … Continue reading…