Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
This was one of my favorite soups as a child, though I ate the condensed, canned version, not home made. This is better. For a shortcut version use a decent canned beef stock / broth rather than home-made, but the home-made is so easy why not make it? As with most soups, this is flexible…. Add … Continue reading…
Remember a few weeks ago when I posted this recipe for Beef and Beer Stew and said it was the best beef stew I’d ever made? That is still a true statement. I am now thinking that it was, indeed, the beer that made the beef so tender. This stew, made with beef stock and … Continue reading…
I almost always cook with wine (both in the glass and in the food) but rarely cook with beer. No particular reason, I just use what’s on hand and there is always wine on hand. After our last dinner party we had a few small bottle of dark ale left. While we both enjoy a … Continue reading…
One of the things I love stocking up on when we go to the Asian market in Bordeaux is herbs. Yes, this is France, so I can buy big bags of Herbes de Provence at the Asian market. One of my finds on the last trip was dried celery leaves. It’s not anything I even … Continue reading…
This is one of those long-cooking dishes that I love doing during the winter. It’s not quite a stew and not quite a pasta. I decided to make it for our dinner party. We had Butternut Squash Soup to start, Mashed Potatoes, with the Corsican Beef, Chard Gratin, and simple Buttered Spaghetti Squash. That was … Continue reading…
For 5 days i did relatively nothing. I walked dogs a few times each day, I cooked dinner, I tidied up the kitchen, and the rest of the time I sat. I took a knitting project with me (I always take a project of some sort with me). I’m half through something that I expected … Continue reading…
The dog days of summer are upon us – and so is the August edition of the Secret Recipe Club. I think that means our recipes should be lazy rather than ambitious… So we can spend long, warm evenings star-gazing, of course.. This month I was sent to Sid’s Sea Palm Cooking – an interesting blog I was … Continue reading…