Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
When I was a child vegetables were as follows: Sweet corn: fresh in summer / canned in winter. Green beans: fresh in summer / canned in winter (always French cut) Peas: fresh in summer / canned in winter Carrots: always fresh. Rutabagas: always fresh. Navy beans aka Pork & Beans: always canned Asparagus: always canned … Continue reading…
I don’t often make food I can’t eat. I mean, really, why would one do that? The point of cooking, after all, is eating. There were a few abysmal failures in the early days that were simply not edible by anyone but I like to think I have left those days behind. I guess I … Continue reading…
We were invited to an Auberge Español last week, at the home of some new French friends. Auberge Español is French for potluck – at least in our area. Why a potluck is called a ‘Spanish Inn’ I have no idea… I think it has something to do with a 2002 movie of that name … Continue reading…
This is not a slow cooker recipe; it’s a skillet recipe. The slow cookers have retired for the season. The Spanish, like most people living in a country with a warm climate, grow and eat lots of peppers. We all know I don’t like hot peppers, but I love mild peppers. When we lived in Andorra I … Continue reading…
We had some friends join us for dinner last night. I made a tagine similar to this one: Lamb and Artichoke Bottom Tagine. I wanted an easy, vegetable first course that could spend some time in the oven while I relaxed. And since I’m fond of alliteration I decided to serve a timbale with the tagine. … Continue reading…
Now that the lettuce is done we turn our attention to other salads. It’s always nice to have a salad on hand in the fridge to have for an easy lunch or quick addition to dinner. I love pasta and rice salads, but I’m referring to vegetable salads – Cole Slaw, Cucumber Salad, Three (or … Continue reading…
Ready for the July edition of the Secret Recipe Club? This month I explored Mother Would Know. Indeed…. she would. But that’s another subject entirely. Laura, the author of Mother Would Know is both a mother dispensing culinary advice and a daughter requesting culinary advice. The name fits, doesn’t it? She has so many delicious-sounding (and looking) recipes … Continue reading…