Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
This is what one has for dinner when the intention is to have grilled chicken breasts and a salad but the temperature plunges, the wind comes up and it starts pouring rain. The furnace / boiler had been turned off and both the fireplace and wood stove cleaned, so we had no heat. It was … Continue reading…
I may have mentioned that I butchered the big blue pumpkin 2 weeks ago. It weighed in at 16 pounds (7.5 kilos). I chose the biggest because I was making pumpkin bread I cut it into large chunks, roasted it, then scooped out the flesh. I made 4 loaves of pumpkin bread.. (4 cups) Then … Continue reading…
I’m calling this Pumpkin Gratin because, this time of year, any post with the word ‘pumpkin’ in it gets a lot of notice. I suppose I could have also used ‘pumpkin pie spice’ but I don’t have any. That’s not something readily available here as pumpkins have only recently been upgraded from pig food to people … Continue reading…
One of my favorite things about fall is that it’s finally cool enough in the evenings to turn the oven on. I can make gratins…. and all sorts of other things that it’s too hot to do in the summer heat. Plus, as the garden season starts to taper off I am more willing to … Continue reading…
The other day I thawed chicken breasts to cook on the grill for dinner. Then it turned cold and windy and rainy…. I decided an oven dish was more in tune with the weather. I googled chicken and potatoes to see if I could come up with any new ideas. That’s when I learned about … Continue reading…
I have a love-hate relationship with spaghetti squash….. I love eating it but I hate cooking it. First – it’s hard. Really hard. I use my big cleaver and a mallet to cut it. Second – it has to be scraped out twice. The initial scraping is to get all the seeds out, then it … Continue reading…
I cut the chard back a few weeks ago. It was looking rather ragged after the summer heat. I think the hot weather makes it more bitter than usual so I hadn’t been picking any. It’s very happy with the cool weather now and is coming back nicely. It will grow all winter if I … Continue reading…