Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
We eat a lot of peppers this time of year. There is no good reason as peppers are one of the few vegetables that are good (here) all year. I think it’s habit going back to when we lived in … Continue reading…
Normally I try to restrain myself and am able to avoid the ‘if some is good, more must be better’ mindset that seems to be the standard where eating and cooking are concerned. I failed with this quiche. Perhaps I … Continue reading…
I just can’t seem to avoid orange vegetables…. After five months of winter squashes I ended up putting carrots in with the slow cooker chicken. In my defense I have no idea how broccoli or cauliflower work in the slow … Continue reading…
Leeks are in season this time of year. It’s both the time to plant them and the time to harvest them. Actually, one can harvest them all winter but now is the time to finish them off before the weather … 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. … Continue reading…
Normally this would have been made with spinach and onions from my vegetable garden. Not this year. This will be the first year since moving to France in 2004 that I have not had lettuce, spinach and chard in my … Continue reading…
A few years ago I bought these cute little glasses and made Red Beet and Cream Cheese Verrines Then I put the little glasses into the cabinet and promptly forgot about them. A few weeks ago I was having a small … Continue reading…