Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
This was one of my favorite soups as a child, though I ate the condensed, canned version, not home made. This is better. For a shortcut version use a decent canned beef stock / broth rather than home-made, but the home-made is so easy why not make it? As with most soups, this is flexible…. Add … Continue reading…
Use either fresh or canned chestnuts for this seasonal winter soup. The chestnuts will cook down and break apart as the soup simmers. If, like me, you bought chestnuts to have with the Brussels sprouts for Christmas, this is a great way to use up the rest. We have guests at the moment and I … Continue reading…
When we moved here I realized that I had far too many cook books. That didn’t stop me from acquiring more. My collection is getting to be a bit eclectic. Most are in English, of course, but there are a few in Spanish and more then a few in French. I even have one book … Continue reading…
I love soup and could happily eat it every day. Mon mari doesn’t share my enthusiasm. We compromise…. Since winter seems to be on the wane I decided this was going to be soup week. I have a few soups that need re-posting (such as this one) and I want to do it while people … Continue reading…
There’s nothing like a hot bowl of soup on a cold winter day. Besides being the perfect (in my opinion) comfort food it’s also a great diet food – if you believe in that sort of thing…. More on diets later. First, the soup. If I still lived in Minnesota I would probably use all … Continue reading…
I like using celery. Strangely, it’s not easy to find nice celery here. It’s usually sold by weight, so, even when it is I can’t often get an entire head…. Other shoppers will break off whatever they need leaving bits and pieces behind. When I am lucky enough to get a lovely big head / stalk … Continue reading…
My potager has rallied. Sort of…. I’ve controlled the late blight but it’s not possible to cure it. I’ve spent many hours cutting off diseased leaves and branches and tomatoes, followed by spraying. At one point some of the plants were totally bare of leaves but full of green tomatoes. I wanted to keep the … Continue reading…