Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
When I was a child my father made popcorn every Friday night. He used an old-fashioned, metal popper that went on the gas stove with a handle that turned a metal scraper to keep it from burning while it popped. … Continue reading…
I use to love doing the weekly grocery shopping. Okay, not love, but slightly liked. I shopped at a rather high end grocery store back when I was gainfully employed. There were always lots of free samples and one eventually … Continue reading…
Healthy baking? Really? In looking at the cake recipes I’ve posted, I’ve done cakes with apples, carrots, pumpkin, oranges, and lemons to name a few, so I have one tiny component of healthy cakes right. But I could do better. … Continue reading…
Fire pits are popular in the U.S. but I have no idea if people actually cook over them or just sit and enjoy the flames…. and make S’Mores. I have never had a S’more. In my more adventurous (and no … Continue reading…
I grew up in a small town along the Mississippi. Fishing was a common past time and, as the local hunters had their own smoke houses, smoking fish was equally common. I loved smoked fish. It was all hot-smoked (cooked) … Continue reading…
I will be modern and use the term ‘raising chickens’ but I must tell you my mother would be appalled and would most vehemently correct me. One does not ‘raise chickens’; one ‘keeps chickens’. I have absolutely no idea in … Continue reading…
Why, you might wonder, is there a post on this blog referencing gluten free anything? Anyone who reads this knows I’m not a fan of fad / popular diets. We eat with the seasons…. everything fresh, as local as possible … Continue reading…