This is not the traditional ‘Hunter’s Style’ which has tomatoes and is often made with chicken. This is my version, in honor of the hunters I see in the fields by our house. They’re hunting boar and mushrooms.
Okay, they’re also hunting deer and rabbits and pigeons and doves and pheasant but one must exercise self-control.
Instead of chicken we … Continue reading.....
This was the first dish I made when I started learning about the foods of Morocco.
It’s still one of our favorites.
I find it interesting that almost every cuisine that uses a bit of spice and lots of tomatoes has a dish that combines the two with eggs: Mexico’s huevos rancheros, Basque eggs piperade,…
We love them all – … Continue reading.....
This isn’t really about the recipe….
It’s just a simple salad.
It’s about poaching the eggs.
Poaching eggs isn’t at all difficult: heat water to boiling, drop in the eggs and wait.
But I normally do it in a skillet because there’s more room. Sometimes the egg hits the bottom of the skillet and it sticks a bit. There’s always … Continue reading.....
Did I say that I had posted the last asparagus recipe for the season?
I must have lied
I can never pass up the idea of asparagus with a poached egg.
There was a time, not too many years ago, when the thought of poaching an egg quite terrified me. I had made them in the past, of course, but … Continue reading.....
Corned Beef and Cabbage will be on a lot of tables this weekend.
I love it – when I can get it. I can’t get corned beef here.
Actually, when we lived in Ireland there was no corned beef there, either.
There were boiled dinners, of course, with potatoes, cabbage and carrots. But the meat used would have been a … Continue reading.....
The spring garden is being slowly replaced by the summer garden.
We ate the first of the summer squashes and I pulled up some of the lettuce and all of the spinach before we left for Spain.
Most of the spinach was turned into soup.
I saved enough of the tender leaves to have one last spinach salad.
Do you make lists?
I'm an inveterate list maker.
I don't make lists of my lists, but I probably should.
Instead I put small lists on post-it notes; medium lists on small sheets of paper and big lists on big paper.
Then I stack them neatly to one side and ignore them.
When I'm feeling particularly panic-stricken or seriously behind … Continue reading.....
It's just been one of those days…
We we turned our clocks back last night, it's dark at 6pm…
So…..
Who remembers sniglets? (Besides me)
SNIGLET
(snig' lit) Any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should.
… Continue reading.....COEGGULANT (ko eg' yu lent)n. The white things in a plate of scrambled eggs.
MUSQUIRT (mus' kwirt)n. The water that comes out
