We love dining in Barcelona. Occasionally, okay, very, very rarely, I do a post without a recipe. This is one of those times. The food we had at both of these restaurants in Barcelona was so exceptional that I couldn’t bring myself to add one of my recipes…. After we all left Morocco some of the family came back to France with us for week of relaxing. At the end, … Continue reading →
Asparagus, Avocado and Tomato Salad We were walking down Las Ramblas in Barcelona, a few years ago, enjoying the beautiful spring evening. A woman stopped us… An American. She told us that someone had stolen her bags and her purse, leaving her with no money and no place to stay. She rather looked like an old hippie (takes one to know one), long, graying hair, Birkenstocks, jeans… She explained that … Continue reading →
I grew up in the Midwestern U.S…..and I have never figured out why the world refers to those 5 states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and both Dakotas) as the 'Midwest' when they are so obviously 'Midnorth'…there is nothing western about them! I digress. The only water critters we had access to for dinner were what we could catch in the Mississippi: sunfish, crappies (pronounced 'crahpies' …not the other way, although, taste-wise, … Continue reading →
