Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Spanish Rice is another of those dishes that has been around forever and may or may not have any relationship at all to anything ever actually made in Spain. Growing up in a small town in the Midwest, if we were told something was Spanish or Italian or French we just accepted that as fact … Continue reading…
Even though I no longer do a turkey dinner this time of year I am aware that a lot of people do. The discussions on the merits of Green Bean Casserole have been flooding the internet. I particularly enjoyed an article that listed survey results of the most disliked Thanksgiving Dinner foods. Yes, Green Bean … Continue reading…
As we all know, Florentine means made in the style of Florence which means the dish has spinach. I love fresh, raw spinach in salads and sandwiches.. I love cooked spinach in anything. Mon mari even likes plain cooked spinach… as in frozen, naked, spinach, thawed in the microwave. I will not even, for one … Continue reading…
The summer squashes are still going strong in the potager. Actually, after going dormant during the heat wave I was ready to pull them out and add them to the compost. They looked dead. Then we got a day of rain…. Lots and lots of rain. It was too muddy to work in the garden … Continue reading…
The other day I had my first slow cooker failure. It should have been simple. It was soup. How can one screw up soup? Apparently with ease. It was a simple premise: we were going out for lunch which I knew would be long and a lot of food. I decided soup would be perfect … Continue reading…
The idea of ‘cook once / eat twice’ is great for summer. It’s even better if you have a plan. The Rice Pilaf is served hot the first day and turned into a cold salad for the second. Plan on saving 1/3 to 1/2 of the Pilaf for use in the salad. I use Uncle … Continue reading…
When asparagus season first starts mon mari prefers that I make it simply: lightly steamed or roasted, finished with butter, salt and pepper. As the season progresses I am allowed to get more creative. We are nearing the end. This week he brought home a sack with tips and bits, ranging in width and length, … Continue reading…