Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Way back in the beginning of time, when I first started doing menus and writing this blog, a friend requested that I tell her what to do ‘with the other half of the red pepper’. She was referring to the … Continue reading…
The spring veggie season is rapidly coming to a close – or it already has. There was no green asparagus at the market this week but, luckily for us, the white asparagus season is several weeks longer. I bought a … Continue reading…
It’s spring. Everything is turning green, including my herbs and the displays at the markets. Well…. Green garlic isn’t actually green. It looks like a green onion (also not green) but smells like mild, sweet garlic. Like a green onion, … Continue reading…
Fish is a very important part of the diet for people living around the Mediterranean. The fish counter in most supermarkets is usually twice the size of the meat counter. When we lived in Andorra (landlocked country in the mountains) … Continue reading…
The theme for Monday posts in April is Asparagus. It’s asparagus season and we eat a lot of it for the 5 or 6 weeks it’s available. We eat green, purple, purple-tipped white, and big, fat white. We love it … Continue reading…
I missed green garlic season last year. It’s a very short season and there is never a lot available. It was at the start of the pandemic and lockdown and I was doing curbside pick-up of our groceries. Green garlic … Continue reading…
We’ve been eating a lot of shrimp lately. There are three simple reasons…. We like shrimp. I can now buy cleaned shrimp. Mon mari was not overly fond of cleaning shrimp and I can’t. I have no problem eating shrimp … Continue reading…