Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
My local supermarket had cranberries yesterday. They looked a little long in the tooth – as if they’d been shipped from store to store, frantically looking for some one to buy them before they went totally toes-up. I declined. On principle, really. I mean, if you can’t get them on the shelves in a timely … Continue reading…
I think I’m back. But I’ve thought that before. The most recent was when I uploaded the photos for this update. Photoshop very politely informed me that I had already activated the software twice, which is (apparently) my limit, so could I please deactivate one and then they would happily activate the one I was … Continue reading…
I'm getting braver with my pressure cooker. Admittedly, I didn't use it for months. It was summer, after all, and in summer we cook outdoors not indoors. Somehow I couldn't see the pressure cooker being particularly useful on the barbecue. But now it's winter. It's past time for my pressure cooker and I to become … Continue reading…
One of the facts about living in a very old French farmhouse is that one rarely lives alone. We have dormice. We’ve heard scampering in the rafters since we moved in, but always assumed it was mice. Let me rephrase that…. We knew we had mice and we assumed we were hearing them. We assumed … Continue reading…
How I spent the last weekend of summer…. We had 10 cubic metres of firewood delivered this weekend. I stacked it. The photo above shows it half done, below all neatly stacked. When I started, the concrete slab was empty. Mon mari was busy building…. I can’t build but I can stack! Mon mari finished … Continue reading…
Feta. I’m a fairly recent convert to feta cheese; it’s been a kitchen staple for only the last 5 years or so. Prior to that I bought it for snacks – the kind that comes in glass jars and is covered in herbs and olive oil. Now I buy proper, brebis (sheep’s milk) feta, that … Continue reading…
First the news: The puppies got in the car today! (Story on Tuesday.) Now….. Did you know we lived on an archaeological site? We didn’t either, initially. Oh we had the usual finds of rusty scissors, old tubes of toothpaste, and bits of teacups in the garden after every heavy rain. Hoeing was always interesting … Continue reading…