Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
I do have a proper recipe for Slow Cooker Coq au Vin but this is an easy version. I am seriously getting into easy cooking lately. I actually bought ready-made puff pastry nibbles for our first course last weekend. I was in the frozen food store picking up scallops for our New Year’s Eve dinner … Continue reading…
We all know I love my slow cookers. I’ve even tried my hand at barbecued chicken in one. It was a nice treat to have in the middle of winter. I haven’t experimented a lot with barbecue recipes, mainly because, other than chicken, we don’t eat a lot of what would be traditional barbecue meats … Continue reading…
We have had a very cold, wet, rainy fall. The farm ponds are all full to overflowing which is supposed to happen by the end of March, not the end of November. I have no idea where the winter rains will go but I’m grateful to be on a hill. We’ve been lighting fires earlier … Continue reading…
I never ate a parsnip when I lived on the other side of the pond. I never knew anyone who had eaten a parsnip. I had never even seen a parsnip, although I did know they existed. It turns out that the Brits love parsnips. I learned that because after we moved to France my … Continue reading…
While I have a cave full of butternut squash my big blue Crown Prince pumpkins didn’t do as well. First, they were kind of gnarly…. They all had these strange tan ridges / growths on the surface. I have no photos of them, sadly. The harvest was at the same time I was tending a … Continue reading…
It’s that time of year again…. The slow cookers are regaining their rightful place in our kitchen. First thing to use up are the packages of pork odds & ends that have been accumulating over the summer. As you all know I buy whole pork loins and cut my own ‘chops’, When I buy the … Continue reading…
This will be the last of the winter slow cooker recipes. I’m ready to put away the slow cookers and have mon mari get out the barbecue grills. It’s his turn to cook. I had a strange thing happen with this recipe…. It cooked dry. When I went to stir it after about 5 hours, … Continue reading…