Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Spinach and cannellini (white kidney beans) are one of our favorite salad combinations. Serve with marinated, grilled or broiled pork chops for a simple spring salad, full of heart-healthy foods. Chicken thighs or breasts would work equally well. After the recipe – my attempt to master social media. Grilled Pork Chops with Spinach and Cannellini Salad … Continue reading…
Three weeks ago it was -6C (22F) and snowing. Two weeks ago it was -11C (12F) and the ground was covered in snow. Two nights ago we had our last night below freezing and the forecast is continued warming. The high today was 12C (54C)…. The snow is gone, the grass is growing, the … Continue reading…
Things start going fast when there’s no waiting for drying time for plaster… Or floor boards. We (I got to help) finished papering the second wall, Then mon mari spent the rest of the week finishing ceiling trim (to small to photo) and staining floor boards….. Which then had to rest for 72 hours. (Thus … Continue reading…
I’m bored with summer cooking. Salad season is over and the vegetable garden is dying back…. much like my creative impulses. Summer cooking no longer produces photogenic foods. It’s either a marinade or a rub; there may or may not be a sauce and that’s it! At the beginning of the season I’m excited. I … Continue reading…
I’ve been sitting, staring at my monitor, resisting the urge to play Spider, for the last 20 minutes. The words have all left. They do that sometimes. Maybe it’s the grey day. Maybe it’s the after Christmas let-down Maybe it’s the thought of 2 more months of grey, wet days, muddy paws, and hauling firewood. … Continue reading…
We have heat in our house. Oh, happy day! We’ve had our wood stove, which does a wonderful job of heating the kitchen, since last winter. There was a boiler in the house when we bought it, but we assumed it was old and decrepit. We were wrong. When the guy cleaned our chimneys this … Continue reading…
Pork Chops Diablo Visible progress this week. First, we made the decision to start bringing the dogs, which means we can spend longer hours working without having to run back (45 minute round trip) to tend the girls. There is finally room for them to be in the house. It's still too muddy for them … Continue reading…