I keep a Word document with recipes that are waiting to be posted. If I see something that looks interesting to make I add it to the page with ‘to try’ next to it. The document is the equivalent of scribbling on a scrap of paper: I type fast, don’t correct mistakes and assume I’ll remember what I meant. I usually do. This recipe was added as a ‘to try’ … Continue reading →
Lemon and capers were just meant to be together. Sometimes I add black or green olives, sometimes feta cheese, sometimes not. I’ve added lemon and capers to pork and lamb and salmon and meatballs. I’ve never tried them with a grilled steak, but summer is coming. It’s a quick skillet sauce requiring very little work. Lemon is the only fruit I like in savory dishes…. and I really, really like … Continue reading →
I have decided to break my own, self-imposed rule about using instructional photos. There is the old adage: ‘A picture is worth ten thousand words’. I will, however, not post my few how-to photos before the recipe. The reason I get so irritated with bloggers who post step-by-step-by-step photos on every recipe is that they post them before the recipe. If I look at the recipe and decide I need … Continue reading →
I do not call this ‘Shrimp Scampi’ because that would be redundant. Scampi is Italian for shrimp…. I would be calling it ‘Shrimp Shrimp’. Like Chai (meaning tea) Tea. Or PIN (Personal Identification Number) number. Or ATM (Automated Teller Machine) machine Or Queso (Spanish for cheese) cheese. You get the point. This is based on one from a ‘box’ of recipes I got years ago. There was no mention of … Continue reading →
Having a vegetable garden (potager) is one of the most rewarding endeavors one can undertake. It’s a lot of work for six or seven months, depending on your growing season, but being able to grow and eat your own vegetables all summer, fresh from the garden, is wonderful. Having the freezer full of soups and the cellar full of winter squashes and onions as the cold weather starts is very … Continue reading →
This was the first ‘Barbecued Chicken’ that we did this summer. For some reason the photo and recipe were tucked away and never posted. I’m giving that excuse because I didn’t have herbs to use yet so there aren’t any in the recipe. When I make it again I’ll add mint, lemon balm and rosemary. I probably didn’t post it right away because it looks burnt. It wasn’t… but whenever … Continue reading →
I’ve been cooking with mint again. Not peppermint, although I did have some of that in my garden once…. along with chocolate mint and cinnamon mint. I never used any of them but it did smell nice when I was weeding. This is spearmint and (I think) it’s the mint used in mint tea which I got hooked on in Morocco. It’s also the mint used in mojitos and mint … Continue reading →
