Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
We now can get fresh gnocchi that does not have to be boiled. It can be cooked in a bit of butter or oil in a skillet. One fries it until lightly browned and it takes less than 10 minutes. Pair that with the precooked, cleaned shrimp that I get at the fish counter and … Continue reading…
We’ve been eating a lot of shrimp lately. There are three simple reasons…. We like shrimp. I can now buy cleaned shrimp. Mon mari was not overly fond of cleaning shrimp and I can’t. I have no problem eating shrimp but my hands break-out in a rash if I clean them. (My story and it’s … Continue reading…
I do not call this ‘Shrimp Scampi’ because that would be redundant. Scampi is Italian for shrimp…. I would be calling it ‘Shrimp Shrimp’. Like Chai (meaning tea) Tea. Or PIN (Personal Identification Number) number. Or ATM (Automated Teller Machine) machine Or Queso (Spanish for cheese) cheese. You get the point. This is based on … Continue reading…
This is a re-post – although I made it for us just last week. We’re rather fond of this dish….. As I am ‘not feeling 100%’ as the Brit’s would say I decided to do an easy recipe. Shrimp with a Greek flavor: tomatoes, dry or salt-cured black olives and finished with Feta cheese. The … Continue reading…
I still have 1 pumpkin, 4 spaghetti squash and 5 butternut squash left. We’ve been eating one of the three almost every night since October. I’ve given away 4 pumpkins and 3 spaghetti squash. They would disappear faster if they weren’t all so big. We get 3 – 4 meals out of each butternut and … Continue reading…
I’m guilty of joining the bacon lovers. To be honest, I have always loved bacon and have often cooked with it, but I seem to be using more of it lately. And it does seem to go rather well with lots of paprika. I love lots of paprika. I could be at risk of developing … Continue reading…
I was playing with the new WordPress editor today…. That’s the bit of software that runs my blog for those who don’t know. I was playing with it because I was assured that I could go back to the original editor any time I wanted to Foolishly, I believed that assurance. Suffice it to say … Continue reading…