Breakfast for Dinner; The Story of Turbot

 Breakfast Hash When we lived in Andorra, after many months of going to the fishmonger, clueless, I realized that I needed to learn fish. My problems:  I didn’t know what the fish were (all the names were in Catalan) and, even if I did know their names I still didn’t know what to do with … Continue reading…

Spinach Salad with Chicken and Quinoa; Saturday Lunch

Spinach Salad with Quinoa It’s Saturday. Every Saturday, in the village of Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra, there is a group of people meeting for lunch at El Principat, more familiarly know as Ramon’s It’s not a formal group.  Anyone can show up and be welcomed, anytime. There is only one rule: the gathering is … Continue reading…

Sausage and Spinach Lasagne; Early Mornings are for the Birds!

Sausage and Spinach Lasagne Happy Monday!  Just a few spring flowers…. Our week always gets off to an early start.  The trash collector comes by around 5:30 am.  In this quiet hamlet in the middle of nowhere we can hear him coming for about 3 kilometres.  Yes, unbelievable as it may seem to some of … Continue reading…

Salami Pizza with Orzo Crust and Don’t Worry; Be Happy!

Go directly to recipe January. Time to tidy up the house and the life.  (Who? Me???) I have a few bloggy-things to catch up on.  To start, Pat, of Pat's food blog, tagged me for the Happy Meme. My first thought was: Me?  Happy?  What on earth is THAT?  (It had been a bad day…) … Continue reading…

Veal Marengo…and Freezer Protection

Go directly to recipe I don’t know how many of you watched ‘Friends’.  Those who did will remember the episode.  For those who didn’t a brief description: Joey, that pillar of male intellect, was reading a book. A rarity for Joey.  It was ‘The Shining’ by Stephen King.  Whenever he got to the scary parts, … Continue reading…

Swedish Meatballs and Holiday Dinner…without Lutefisk!

Mon mari tends to take the fun out of being a traveling food blogger. He’s quite patient at home, waiting while I take a few hundred photos of a crumb of bread: arranging and rearranging; posing and reposing; adjusting the lights and the props. And he did ask me, very nicely, to please not embarrass … Continue reading…