Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Desserts have never been my ‘thing’. I bake cookies and tea breads and, rarely, a cake, but that’s about it. My mother loved baking and hated cooking. Whenever she had a free few minutes she’d whip up a pie or cake or fancy dessert of some sort. I have her recipe collection and at least … Continue reading…
First: The food We had a good year with our little plums. We have both the yellow Mirabelles and red ones the same size that I don’t know the name of. They’re only slightly bigger than a cherry. I’ve made lots of jam and several clafoutis Bonnie and Guapa have eaten as many as they … Continue reading…
Three ingredient recipes. Posts on toast. Is there a bit of food blogger burnout going on? Or maybe just foodie burnout? Has common sense creativity peaked? I could have made this a two ingredient recipe: rhubarb sauce and vanilla yogurt. I decided to make it complicated….. It’s a five ingredient recipe. I hope you can … Continue reading…
We had a dinner party. When we have a dinner party I have to make a dessert. And we all know that I’m not a pastry chef. After my mother died I got her recipe box. It was a fairly large box that she kept all of her recipes in, hand-written, cut out of magazines … Continue reading…
I love cherries… But I rarely buy them. Considering the fact that everyone around here has their own cherry trees, they are surprisingly expensive to buy. Maybe the fact that they don’t keep well makes them difficult to get to market in a timely fashion so the cost is higher. Fortunately, we have a source. … Continue reading…
When I had my very first potager here in France I planted rhubarb. I have always loved rhubarb. My mother made at least two Rhubarb Custard Pies for the annual Mother’s Day family feast and countless Rhubarb Crisps during the rest of May. They were my two favorite desserts, even surpassing chocolate. At the end … Continue reading…
What, you may ask is going on chez nous? Two cakes in less than six months? There was the Carrot Cake at the end of June….. And now this. We had another small dinner party and I’ve decided that I am capable of making desserts. This was ever so much easier than the Carrot Cake … Continue reading…