Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
The garden monsters have returned! Last year I did a post on what to do with all the excess: tips on freezing zucchini and how to use what you froze. This year, I thought I would give a few options for cooking zucchini, so one doesn’t get bored with it before all 6 tons have … Continue reading…
Our house painter has gone back across the pond, the job finished. Well, almost. Mon mari still has to finish the shutters and windows. The shutters were in pretty good condition, just in need of minor repairs, a good scraping and some fresh paint. We decided to stain the windows darker as well. They were … Continue reading…
Emma, la Gorda, is on a diet. She is not pleased. I keep telling her she doesn’t want to get as big as a horse, but the poor girl is hungry ALL the time. I cut her kibble almost in half. Last night she went on a hunger strike and refused to eat any of … Continue reading…
A lot of us spend in inordinate amount of time thinking about food, planning food, cooking food, talking about food, eating food, and, finally, reminiscing about food. How often do I (we) remember how to really taste food? And how much of that tasting is more than just rolling it around on the tongue? Taste … Continue reading…
As food bloggers, what do we do with the old posts? I was looking for a link to a recipe today. I found it on one of my very, very early recipe posts. You can form your own opinion….. But I wasn’t particularly impressed with the quality pf the photos (In case you’re wondering, the … Continue reading…
Since mon mari was lazing about the hospital last week (he came home today) there is no progress to report on the house restoration. I’ll tell you what I did, instead…. First thing I did was break the kitchen faucet. Actually, I broke it loose so it just fell over. How? If I knew how … Continue reading…
I’m starting to feel like the ant when I would really like to spend some time as the grasshopper! I know it’s important to get ready for winter, but it’s hard to be doing firewood when it’s a hot, sunny summer afternoon. I really want to say ‘Let’s go for a bike ride; we can … Continue reading…