Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
This is mon mari’s favorite thing in the world to eat. Okay…. this is his favorite thing in our house that I make, although I think it would be close between this and Pan-Seared Foie Gras. He loves sage. My sage plant, which has struggled for a few years, grew into a monster this year. … Continue reading…
I don’t buy a lot of convenience foods. There aren’t a lot of convenience food choices here – no boxes of ingredients to which you just ‘add meat’ and very few cans or packages that one ‘heats & eats’. I wouldn’t buy them anyway. I don’t buy salad dressings or meat marinades or pasta sauces … Continue reading…
If one lived on the Mediterranean one would have a different name for this. I don’t and it’s my recipe so I’ll name it as I choose. It has the flavors of many recipes found in countries bordering the Med. Sea: feta, capers, olives, tomatoes. It’s a bright, somewhat briny sauce and we love it. … Continue reading…
May is a bit of a fruit and vegetable desert here. For fruit – the citrus is done so no more oranges or clementines but it’s too early for the peaches and nectarines. We can still get apples and pears but they’re starting to look like last year, which, of course, they are. The strawberries … Continue reading…
When I was a child I thought only Popeye ate spinach. The only option at the time would have been canned spinach, which I still won’t touch. It wasn’t until I was out in the world, and living in the ‘big city’ that I was introduced to spinach salads, which I immediately loved. It wasn’t … Continue reading…
Cauliflower, in my opinion, is not the most versatile vegetable. We love it, but it’s uses are limited. It tends to be, for want of a better word, crumbly. That attribute makes it perfect for cauliflower rice (or so I’m told, never having tried it) but challenging for other things. I would not add it … Continue reading…
I don’t have a lot of canned food in my pantry. There is usually tuna, and maybe tomatoes in case I run out of the frozen ones from last summer. There is almost always duck confit…. confit de canard. A can of confit will have 4 or 5 cuisses or thigh / leg pieces which … Continue reading…