Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
It’s summer. The sun came out; it quit raining; the ground is warming. We had our first salad from the garden. The windows and doors are open – so the dogs can go in and out at will. And do… in, out, in, out, all day long. Sedi, the old girl, loves it. Naps in … Continue reading…
Ah…. “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, gang aft agley” (Burns). And don’t I know it! It started out simply enough…. Mon mari wanted to go to Bordeaux on Monday to get bathroom fixtures. Sunday morning he decided to wait a week. I found myself with a free, rainy day. Couldn’t work in … Continue reading…
Una cosa menos. Mon mari’s new favorite phrase. One thing less. It was a phrase we heard often whilst living in Andorra. It’s a Spanish phrase, uttered frequently by our Portuguese builder working in Catalan-speaking Andorra. We’d feel right at home in the Tower of Babel. I’ve been hearing it repeated several times a day. … Continue reading…
Did someone say trim? Mon mari believes that a bit of trim can fix a multitude of, um, idiosyncrasies. And when you are working with an old, stone farmhouse there are a lot of idiosyncrasies. Walls and ceilings and floors that may have had square corners one or two hundred years ago, no longer do. … Continue reading…
I have so many house photos to post I decided to break with tradition and do the recipe first – for those who just come by for the food. I'm getting anxious for summer – and garden salads. Until then I make winter salads. I don't buy lettuce out of season – actually, I don't … Continue reading…
My cook top is not working…. Again. This is the third time in less than one year of use that a burner has ceased to function as the French so nicely say. It’s the same one that ‘ceased to function’ last summer. I am not happy. Je ne suis pas content. The problem I have … Continue reading…
I unpacked a few more books yesterday. All fiction. My cookbooks, language books, computer books, garden books, etc, have all been unpacked for awhile. I have, roughly 150 books of fiction unpacked, and a poor selection, I might add. I have, when all my books are unpacked, a library of somewhere between 1750 and 2000 … Continue reading…