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 →
We’ve had a breakthrough / personal epiphany / sudden realization / whatever chez nous. Mon mari thinks he might actually like fish. Well, he might like fish if he doesn’t have to clean it and it’s cooked perfectly and it has absolutely no bones. It’s really the bone issue that has put him off fish. But he has (gasp!) ordered it of his own free will in restaurants in the recent … Continue reading →
The other day I had my first slow cooker failure. It should have been simple. It was soup. How can one screw up soup? Apparently with ease. It was a simple premise: we were going out for lunch which I knew would be long and a lot of food. I decided soup would be perfect for dinner that night and doing it in the slow cooker would be easy. I … Continue reading →
