Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
I posted the original recipe for these years ago but it has been lost, so to speak. As mushroom season is starting I thought it was time to re-do it. The vegetables are partially cooked before layering and baking, so they spend less time in the oven. They could be assembled after the initial cooking … Continue reading…
The other day I thawed chicken breasts to cook on the grill for dinner. Then it turned cold and windy and rainy…. I decided an oven dish was more in tune with the weather. I googled chicken and potatoes to see if I could come up with any new ideas. That’s when I learned about … Continue reading…
I don’t often make food I can’t eat. I mean, really, why would one do that? The point of cooking, after all, is eating. There were a few abysmal failures in the early days that were simply not edible by anyone but I like to think I have left those days behind. I guess I … Continue reading…
I’ve made versions of these ‘cakes’ or ‘patties’ with both summer and winter squash, carrots, beets and just about anything else I could shred but for some reason I never used the most logical choice: potatoes. I have now corrected that error. In the interest of full disclosure (one has to be so careful these … Continue reading…
Harvest time in farm country…. It’s a lovely, warm, fall Sunday evening and the harvester just arrived to do the soy bean field. No need to worry about closing the windows to keep out the dust – we’ve been enduring an invasion of Asian Lady Bugs so we can’t have windows open anyway. And last … Continue reading…
In honor of the French elections taking place today I thought I would post a classic French dish. It’s a simple dish of fried potatoes and onions, done in ‘the style of Lyon’. The chicken stock added at the end is absorbed, giving the dish a bit of a syrupy glaze. As to the elections: … Continue reading…
Pommes de terre sarladais or Potatoes Sarlat-style is one of those classic French dishes that is so simple it often gets overlooked. It’s nothing more than potatoes fried in duck fat, but, if you’ve never fried potatoes in duck fat, you have never tasted the absolute best fried potatoes. Sadly, many of you don’t have easy … Continue reading…