Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Celery is another underused vegetable. Too often a little bit is finely chopped and added to a pasta or potato salad and barely noticed. We like it…. Mon mari even likes it cooked, as a vegetable side dish. I don’t, however, like raw onion (mon mari likes that, too). So even if all the other … Continue reading…
Pasta Primavera is an American invention from the 1970’s. I say ‘American’ because both Nova Scotia and New York have a spot in the story. I have always disagreed with most ‘Pasta Primavera’ recipes. Primavera means spring so, in my opinion, the dish should be made with spring vegetables. Many Pasta Primavera recipes have summer … Continue reading…
Aren’t these pretty? These are heirloom ‘climbing beans’ called Selma Zebra. I love green beans that aren’t green. They’re so much easier to find among all the green leaves. If someone could come up with bright red or orange beans it would be even nicer. I digress. Please don’t tell anyone…. but I like American Pole … Continue reading…
This time of year, with the potager in transition, we have a lot of combination dishes. Chard with spinach; spinach with squash, chard with squash…. All of them together…. It’s a good thing we like vegetables. And I feel so very virtuous out gathering our food for dinner…. (said tongue in cheek – see rant … Continue reading…
Mon mari made a mess of my organized unpacked boxes out in the barn. He saw that there was actually empty space up on the platform where they all are stored and started tossing stuff up there. Stuff like the tile cutter and plumbing parts and the new bathroom sinks and the drawers for the … Continue reading…
Long, long ago in a place far, far away I made a pasta salad for our family reunion. This was an annual event in the old, Mid-Western tradition of family reunions, with aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, grandparents, grandkids, first, second and third cousins, two and three times removed. A moment to pass on a totally … Continue reading…
Warm Bean Bean and Chevre Pasta ‘Just a huggin’ and a kissin’ with my baby in the very last row….’ Does anyone neck in the last row in the movies anymore? Does anyone know what necking is? Do kids still do it or do they just skip over that part and get right to the … Continue reading…