Healthy Food . . . . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . . . . Easy Recipes . . . . . . & Musing from an Expat in France
May is a bit of a fruit and vegetable desert here. For fruit – the citrus is done so no more oranges or clementines but it’s too early for the peaches and nectarines. We can still get apples and pears but they’re starting to look like last year, which, of course, they are. The strawberries … Continue reading…
Cooking for a group or a large family takes careful planning to make sure that you have enough to feed everyone. Cooking for one or two takes careful planning to make sure you don’t end up wasting food. To be honest I don’t remember the transition from cooking for a hungry teenager to only cooking … Continue reading…
Thai inspired Pork Chops with Cabbage done in the slow cooker is a lazy cooks stir-fry. I love the flavors and I love dumping it all in the slow cooker and ignoring it for hours. Plus I had peanut butter left from the Christmas baking. Our house, or rather, someone who shall remain nameless, tends … Continue reading…
I love cabbage of all colors but I particularly love red cabbage. It’s sweet and sour flavor goes well with assertive meats like duck, goose or venison; and with bland meats like chicken breasts. Toss it with pasta, eat it over potatoes, add it to sandwiches….. When one is cooking for two and cooking something … Continue reading…
I had a discussion recently, with a Canadian friend, who was amazed that we don’t have collard greens in France. We don’t have mustard greens either. The French eat the chard stems, which are very wide on the variety grown here, and discard the leaves. I can buy Old El Paso taco kits here but … Continue reading…
After the winter squash season and before the lock-down I managed to buy some winter vegetables. I was so excited…. Cauliflower, broccoli, rutabagas, cabbage. We love them all. The larger, cruciferous vegetables require a bit of a commitment when cooking for two. Or at least some planning so it all gets eaten. One of our … Continue reading…
This will be the last of the winter slow cooker recipes. I’m ready to put away the slow cookers and have mon mari get out the barbecue grills. It’s his turn to cook. I had a strange thing happen with this recipe…. It cooked dry. When I went to stir it after about 5 hours, … Continue reading…
