Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Chicken and Avocado Salad I’m making lists. Lists of stuff we’ll need before, during and immediately following our move. We’ll be homeless for a bit and lists, I have learned, are important. When we left the US, I did not have a list. I packed our airline tickets. Anyone who has ever done a major … Continue reading…
We Bread Baking Babes are less than we were a week ago. We are reduced. One of our very own Babes, Sher, of What Did You Eat, passed away on Sunday. We are missing her wit, her humor, her prose, her baking, her blogging…. Her loss creates a hole much greater than a mere ‘1/12th’ … Continue reading…
Chicken with Spanish Rice I’ve been wanting to participate in Gay’s (A Scientist in the Kitchen), Market Event, but, frankly, our markets are kind of boring up here in the Vendée. Could be all the rain. The markets we went to in Spain were all outdoors, taking over most of the streets and plazas in … Continue reading…
Lemon Spinach and Chicken Salad Long, long ago, in a place far, far away I was fit; in decent shape, as it were. I did it the easy way. I went to a spa, twice a year, and beat my body into submission. My days at the spa went something like this: 5:30 … Continue reading…
Chicken and Spinach Pasta One of my favorite passages ever put on paper was written by Bill Bryson. I think it was in “Notes from a Small Island”. To summarize it briefly, he writes about being all alone, in the kitchen of his house in the country, early one morning. No one’s around. No one … Continue reading…
This is from last weeks menu – but I didn't get it posted earlier and I wanted you to see the pretty, yellow chicken I got from our farmer neighbor for letting his cows graze in our pasture. This slow braising was perfect for it – and it's a traditional French recipe! Chicken with Rice … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe One of my very few (ahem) faults is that I tend to underestimate the time it will take me to do something. I always know that I can get more stuff done in a shorter amount of time than humanly possible. I've touched on this endearing quality in the past. It … Continue reading…