Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
What – you’ve never heard of oven poaching? Okay…. It’s more of a descriptive phrase than a technique but it was different than roasting and one can’t really ‘braise’ a fish. Poaching is a common cooking technique for salmon but … Continue reading…
One of the things that our friend who lived in Spain and I had in common, in addition to a love of big dogs and Spanish wine, was a love of books. He had more books than I do. He … Continue reading…
Oeufs en meurette or Poached Eggs in Red Wine Sauce or Poached Eggs Bourguignon is a traditional dish in the Burgundian region of France. It’s an old dish and the only restaurant where I’ve found it still on the menu … Continue reading…
It’s Friday so I thought I’d post a fish recipe. It’s actually ‘Roast Salmon on a Bed of Leeks with Tarragon White Wine Sauce’ but Google doesn’t like long titles. Long keyword strings are okay, but not long url / … Continue reading…
I went to a different market last week, still searching for more green asparagus. It’s complicated and boring, but for a number of reason I had not yet made our favorite asparagus starter…. An oversight that needed correcting. For the … Continue reading…
I’ve been watching cooking shows again…. Well, not seriously watching, it’s more background noise when I’m in the kitchen. I’ve heard this tip before but never tried it. I heard it several times over the course of a week so … Continue reading…
A lot of people start cooking when they go away to college / university…. Primarily because they have to feed themselves. Some never make it past opening tins or heating frozen pizzas. Some make it all the way to pasta … Continue reading…