Healthy Food . . . . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . . . . Easy Recipes . . . . . . & Musing from an Expat in France
When we lived in the U.S. we had a gas grill and mon mari did all of the summer cooking on it. A few years before we left he added a charcoal smoker. We loved the smoker so much that, when we were packing up all of our worldly goods to move across the pond … Continue reading…
Barbecued Salmon? Why not? The hoisin sauce, sherry and soy sauce make a nice counterpoint to the salmon’s richness. If you don’t have hoisin sauce you can use another purchased barbecue sauce, or regular ketchup. If using ketchup I would add a dash of Worcestershire sauce. We grill a lot of salmon in the summer … Continue reading…
If it’s Friday it must be fish night. In case you think we are in a rut, I make fish on Friday because that’s the day I do the shopping. I like fresh fish. I also like to find ways to use the abundance of cherry tomatoes a single plant will produce. This year I … Continue reading…
Mon mari hardly ever complains about ‘Fish Hell Day’ when he gets to cook it on the grill. And especially not when it’s salmon. We eat a lot of salmon. It does get to be a challenge to find new ways to fix it. Some are more successful than others. This is one of the … Continue reading…
Time flies….. It seems like I just did the Secret Recipe Club and yet here it is again…. Okay, not quite. This isn’t the regular monthly event but a special recipe collection to kick-start summer featuring Picnic and Barbecue Foods. As you all know we cook everything (almost) on the barbecue in summer so this is a … Continue reading…
Month 4 of the Secret Recipe Club. This month I had fun exploring Hun… What’s for Dinner. The recipe I chose was for Balsamic Glazed Salmon. We all know how much mon mari loves fish…. Okay, he does like grilled salmon and this was so good I actually made it twice. I did modify the … Continue reading…
As they say: planning is everything. Remember the garlic chips I made for the Crispy Mushrooms? As I was stir-frying the chard to have with the salmon (the rest of the dinner, after the Stuffed Zucchini to start) I decided the garlic chips would add just the right amount of crunch and flavor. Thus a dish … Continue reading…
