I’ve switched!
For years I have made my quiche with a rice crust. The last time I posted a quiche recipe one of my readers suggested a potato crust is also good.
Hmmmm……
Mon mari is rather fond of potatoes.
It seemed like such a good idea, and so simple.
Naturally I didn’t bother to look for an actual recipe.… Continue reading.....
I love lentils.
I love small things (Not diamonds…. I like big diamonds. Never had a big diamond, but I’m pretty sure I’d like it.)
Back to the food (It’s been one of those days.)
Ahem….
I’m not sure where I first saw Beluga Lentils but I immediately wanted them.
Amazingly, I found them right off.
So often, things I … Continue reading.....
One big food holiday is over; an entire four weeks of nibbling, noshing, snacking and supping is on the horizon.
If you came here looking for my usual, somewhat healthy, somewhat lo-cal recipe to help survive the holidays….
Not today, sorry.
If you cam here looking for something pretty or fancy or flashy for entertaining during the holidays….
This isn’t … Continue reading.....
One of the long-standing myths about life in Europe is that we suffer the lack of sour cream.
It's true: there is no sour cream here.
There is also no low-fat sour cream or non-fat sour cream (isn't non-fat cream an oxymoron?) for which I will be forever grateful. I do not use artificially 'low fat' or 'low cal' dairy … Continue reading.....
There has been a lot of cursing chez nous recently.
Mon mari has been working on the floor of our bedroom.
He’s using the same boards as he used in the living room a year ago. They’re just not cooperating this time.
He stained and varnished them prior to nailing them down, same as last time, but it must be … Continue reading.....
