How times flies when one is having fun!
One is having fun…. Right? Right???
I had fun this week: reading new blogs, finding new pasta recipes, trying to get out of my cooking slump….
Nothing like traveling around the globe, reading how other people treat … Continue reading.....
I'd lost the will to cook.
Not to eat, mind you…. That never goes away.
Nor to drink…. So much wine; so little time.
I'd simply lost the will to cook.
It would appear that I have gotten into a rut.
I'm no longer content … Continue reading.....
No work to report on this week….
What with mon mari lazing around the hospital and all.
He’s not being completely idle – he cleaned off a lawn chair, parked himself under the apple tree by the front gate and painted said gate.
Now he’s … Continue reading.....
‘Mama said there’d be days like this…’
There is a Chinese curse: ‘May you live in interesting times.’
Yesterday was an ‘interesting’ day.
It all started about 6am….
Our phone seldom rings.
Our phone never rings at 6 in the morning….. NEVER!
Mon mari is … Continue reading.....
I’m not sure what’s going on in my garden at night.
I have radishes turning into big, hulking bullies.
That could be the result of lack of discipline on my part as chief (and only) gardener.
I accept the blame.
But….
What’s wrong with this … Continue reading.....
I haven’t been making pasta lately
No, I’m not on a low-carb, no-carb or any other sort of diet.
I’m on a new potato eating frenzy.
In case you’ve never read this blog before….. We eat with the seasons. And right now it’s new potato … Continue reading.....
I really don't know how famous it it…..
But his kids love it, so that counts for a lot.
It's not true Puttanesca with the sausages….
But that's what we cooks do – modify the recipe to suit our tastes and feed our families.
This … Continue reading.....
Last year about this time I did a post about our Processionarias or Processional Caterpillars… Those very pretty, very nasty and potentially deadly critters I’d seen nose-to-tailing it past our garden gate.
You’ll never guess what came tap tap tapping on my kitchen window last … Continue reading.....
I’ll never forget the first time I had smoked salmon.
It was the longest lunch of my life.
I’d grown up eating smoked fish – smoked carp, actually.
I loved it. Smoked carp is a bit on the fatty side, but it was a local … Continue reading.....
Ah, Spring!
All of the bright blooming flowers: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths….
All of the fresh vegetables: artichokes, asparagus, favas….
All of the trees coming into bud….
All of the lovely, warm sunshine…..
All of the guilt….
Guilt?
Spring Guilt?
Yes, my friends: Spring Guilt.
After … Continue reading.....
