Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Ah, spring ! The daffodils are done, the tulips are just starting, the lilacs have new leaves and flower buds…. It’s time to sort out the vinegar. I bought decorative bottles from the Willimas Sonoma catalog back before their stores were everywhere, Are their stores still everywhere? I digress…. I have 6 of the bottles … Continue reading…
I’ve been doing pork chops in the slow cooker every week all winter long. As is usual, this time of year, I start to get bored and want something new. I was doing them differently every week, but still….. We finally stopped eating winter squashes and I was able to buy a cauliflower…. Exciting times. … Continue reading…
Spanish Rice is another of those dishes that has been around forever and may or may not have any relationship at all to anything ever actually made in Spain. Growing up in a small town in the Midwest, if we were told something was Spanish or Italian or French we just accepted that as fact … Continue reading…
I never ate a parsnip when I lived on the other side of the pond. I never knew anyone who had eaten a parsnip. I had never even seen a parsnip, although I did know they existed. It turns out that the Brits love parsnips. I learned that because after we moved to France my … Continue reading…
We had this over pasta. Had I been ambitious, I would have shredded the pork and added it to the sauce. I wasn’t. Mon mari added sambal oelek to his. I didn’t do that either….. Apparently I’m easy to please. I stirred this after about 4 hours, but if you just give it a stir … Continue reading…
I don’t really like fruit with meat. I’ll pass on Duck a L’Orange. I don’t eat chutney with lamb, grilled peaches with pork chops and you will never find raisins in my beef stew. There are two exceptions: I love lemon with just about anything, and I like apples with pork. Actually, I was just … Continue reading…
It’s time…. Yes, I got out the slow cooker. No, I did not use it over the summer to ‘keep the kitchen cool’. I keep my kitchen cool by sending mon mari out to the barbecue to do the cooking… Much more efficient. But the weather has cooled, he ran out of charcoal and gas, … Continue reading…