Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
First, the good news…. We’ve had sunshine for three days in a row. Another week of this and the mud may be gone from our front garden! We could have clean dogs again!!!! Well… There’s always hope. And, in the meantime, there’s pasta. The recipe, Pasta with Sausage, Cabbage and Sage, has been updated, nutrition … Continue reading…
It’s entirely possible that the title is not proper Spanish, but calling this a Faux Enchilada just didn’t seem right. I’ll happily mix metaphors but I hate to mix too many languages… Tower of Babel and all that. Here’s the story: I was hungry for enchiladas. Mon mari was not. We compromised: I would make … Continue reading…
This is what happens when one does the shopping the day before one gets sick…. One ends up with a refrigerator full of food that needs to be used up as all of the planned cooking was replaced by chicken soup. Meat can be frozen for later…. Veggies become soup. But, one can never have … Continue reading…
One of the results of eating with the seasons is, sometimes, one feels like one is stuck on the same page. I had a bumper crop of acorn squash this year, and very few butternut squash. As the acorn only have about half the storage life as the butternut, we’re eating those first. As we … Continue reading…
The weather has turned cooler. The zucchini plants are in the compost and the green beans are dribbling out a few beans every other day. The acorn and butternut squashes are about ready…. I’ll pick them next week. Or maybe the week after. That leaves the chard. I didn’t really like it at the height … Continue reading…
I can’t buy bulk sausage. I can buy lots of different flavors of sausages. And I can buy sausage for stuffing tomatoes and sausage for stuffing zucchini but not just plain old bulk sausage. I bought sausage for stuffing zucchini. The photo showed zucchini, cut in half and hollowed, with the sausage filling the cavity … Continue reading…
We had a good run of lettuce this season. I still have a row of romaine left…. Maybe for another few days. All the cool rainy weather was good for the lettuce. Now it’s sunny and hot…. Bad for the lettuce but good for the tomatoes, green beans and sweet corn. The early summer garden … Continue reading…