Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
This Gnocchi, made with pumpkin rather than the more traditional potato, is a lovely golden color with the delicate flavor of winter squash. Finish simply, with browned butter and a few herbs. It makes a lovely side dish for fall and is incredibly easy to do. You can buy pumpkin purée – just make sure that pumpkin is the … Continue reading…
I have graduated to full-size pumpkins (from the teeny ones I was posting last week). This would be equally good made with a butternut squash. Pumpkin is wonderful vegetable that works well in a lot of savory dishes. I use moist, pink ham in this lasagne and fresh sage from my garden. I love the … Continue reading…
This used to be Pumpkin Bread, a traditional holiday treat in the US (at least in my family). I prefer butternut squash to pumpkin as a winter vegetable and I really don’t have enough room in my potager to grow one pumpkin for a Christmas bread plus all the butternut squash (and acorn and spaghetti … Continue reading…
This is quickly made with canned pumpkin and can easily be doubled or tripled. It keeps well in the fridge or can be frozen for later. The sherry adds a smoky and the tomato paste deepens the color. If I were serving this for a holiday gathering in the U.S. I would put it in festive … Continue reading…
II may have mentioned in the past that some things are hard to find here. And, no, I’m not talking about peanut butter and sour cream, the two things that everyone thinks we lack. Cranberries have been difficult until the last year or two; molasses is always a challenge as is green Tabasco, dark brown … Continue reading…
These 2 breads have been part of my holiday tradition since I was in charge of my very first kitchen. It never occurred to me (one knows so little about what one doesn't know) that they would become an annual quest when we moved across the pond. For our first Christmas, in Ireland, I found … Continue reading…
Mon mari has declared the guest bathroom done! Of course I haven’t inspected it yet….. Not that I’d ever find anything that he missed, either intentionally or unintentionally (him missing it; not me finding it). Still….. Looks good, doesn’t it? Since the weather has been getting rather, um, wintry, he decided it would be nice … Continue reading…