When I was a child vegetables were as follows:
Another favorite spring vegetable at our house are snow peas.
They’re a bit like asparagus: available often during the year shipped in from South America but only fresh and local in the spring.
We only eat them in the spring – like the asparagus.
My mother grew up on a farm.
Vegetables in summer were whatever was picked in the garden. Vegetables in winter were whatever had been ‘put-up’ during the summer or was in the root cellar.
When I was young we lived in town. My mother had … Continue reading.....
I love fried rice.
Like most of my dishes I modify it to suit my mood and the contents of my fridge.
The original recipe, that I found in one of my Chinese cook books many years ago, included the peas and the egg.
Today we had sunshine, rain, sleet, hail and high winds…. all repeated several times.
I know spring is coming. The calendar assures me it will be here soon.
And I found snow peas.
When I lived in the US I used to plant snow peas, or edible pea pods.
Much as I love them, I haven’t bothered planting them here for two reasons: I limit my potager space and they would interfere with the sweet corn.
I can … Continue reading.....
One of the problems for someone who has blogged as long as I have is that, sometimes, we don’t want new recipes.
Sometimes we just want to make the old recipes that are near and dear to our heart.
Sometimes the old recipes don’t need … Continue reading.....
Spring used to happen slowly.
One exchanged the winter coat for the spring coat for the summer jacket for no jacket.
The daffodils bloomed, then the hyacinths, then the tulips.
I went from the winter coat to mowing the lawn in shorts and t-shirt in … Continue reading.....
Continuing education.
In some fields it's required to maintain a license in order to work.
In some fields it's required to stay on top of changes; to be on the cutting edge.
And I suppose one could say that it's necessary to keep our brains … Continue reading.....
Are you a Ma'am or a Miss?
A Sir or a Dude?
Do you cringe when total strangers get overly familiar or do you think it's friendly?
When we left the US, oh those many long years ago, people, for the most part, still treated … Continue reading.....
