Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
As I was looking through my handy food guide for the posts on Styles and Sauces recently, I wasted spent a bit of time looking at British foods. The best thing (in my opinion) about British cuisine is the names…. Well, maybe the second best…. The Brit’s make some of the best, ooey-gooey desserts in … Continue reading…
Could there be a better start to the holiday season then a Chocolate Expo? An entire exhibition hall filled, side to side and end to end, with chocolate? I felt duty-bound to go…. Only so I could pass on the information, of course. Admission to the Expo was 2 euro…. And that included all the … Continue reading…
I live with a conundrum… aka mon mari. He maintains that he doesn’t like fish. He continually refers to Friday as ‘Fish Hell Day’. Yes, we eat fish on Friday. No, it has nothing to do with our Catholic school upbringing. It’s because I like to cook fish on the day I buy it. I … Continue reading…
We’re still traveling…. Old story; new recipe: A few years ago, we were having dinner at a gorgeous country house hotel in the south of France. It was a beautiful, warm summer evening and dinner was on a stepped terrace on the hillside sloping down from the hotel. We had views looking into the sunset … Continue reading…
Mon mari has turned his attention to the details…. The little things that, in his opinion need to be done. Like building a half wall on the landing to prevent people from walking into the stairwell in the middle of the night. Well, he started it anyway… He’s also doing a few things that, in … Continue reading…
Occasionally I like to meander down memory lane and dabble in what I consider ‘retro’ foods…. You know, those foods we were forced to eat as children and now love. Or maybe something that we ate every week that we swore would never cross our lips once we were in charge of our own kitchen. … Continue reading…
Nothing like throwing a little sheet rock up to make the progress visible…. Last week’s bathroom: This week’s bathroom: It’s a little dark as there are no lights yet…. We wanted the window to be in the corner bedroom / office that will be built next winter. There will be a bathtub across the back … Continue reading…