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…
I counted today….. I’ve been avoiding doing that, I still have 14 butternut squash, 3 big blue pumpkins, and 2 spaghetti squash in the cave. People are starting to lock their doors when they see me. It’s worse than the zucchini plague of summer. Please bear with me as we continue to eat through the … Continue reading…
This is a quick post because it’s Christmas, I have a movie to watch, and my ability to be online is a bit haphazard. My mobile works very well as a hotspot – until it doesn’t. Sometimes I know why, sometimes I don’t. There are so many things that need to be turned on and … Continue reading…
Everything I make seems to be orange lately…. It’s either butternut squash, pumpkin, or a tomato sauce, which should be red, but then I add yogurt and paprika or, in this case, horseradish, and it turns orange. For the curious…. this is what it really looked like. There might have been an orange tomato in … Continue reading…
We had a lovely slow-roasted leg of lamb for Easter dinner…. as guests of friends. What a treat! I made this last week. Since I have learned how to properly cook white asparagus I have rarely deviated. But I did with this…. Call it over-confidence, laziness, whatever you like but, luckily for me it worked. … Continue reading…
The horseradish that I buy here is mild…. very mild. I can eat it right out of the jar. I have learned that the French palate is actually more wimpy than mine. Except for the mustard which is always very, very hot. Use horseradish according to your taste and the potency of what is available. … Continue reading…
I hadn’t planned on posting this recipe…. Which is why I didn’t take a photo before we started eating. But we both liked it so much, and it was so easy, I jumped up before we finished it and grabbed a quick pic. You could, of course, make it with some or all leftovers…. It’s … Continue reading…