Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
I’m starting to add spinach to anything and everything. Well, within reason, of course. It has all sorts of vitamins and minerals and hardly any calories, so why not? Even people who claim not to like it aren’t really going to notice it when it’s not the main ingredient. Notice I didn’t say it was … Continue reading…
I was at my monthly book club meeting today. (Don’t ask about the book….) We were discussing food. Sometimes, it seems like every group of people I find myself in ends up discussing food. Perhaps I’m the common element in it all…. I digress. It started with coffee – and whether or not anyone wanted … Continue reading…
One of the first signs of cooler weather, chez nous, is mon mari’s request for meatloaf. He loves meatloaf, of any shape, style or flavor, but he particularly loves meatloaf sandwiches. He would be happy if I made a meatloaf every week and just gave it to him for sandwiches. As I am rather fond … Continue reading…
As we all know, Florentine means made in the style of Florence which means the dish has spinach. I love fresh, raw spinach in salads and sandwiches.. I love cooked spinach in anything. Mon mari even likes plain cooked spinach… as in frozen, naked, spinach, thawed in the microwave. I will not even, for one … Continue reading…
I realize that many of you will not be making this risotto using duck confit. I looked at a few US supermarket websites and it wasn’t listed. Amazon, of course, carries it but it’s rather expensive – and appeared a lot fancier than the can I usually buy. They did have one similar can for … Continue reading…
While everything and anything can be made with bacon in the U.S., it’s not a household staple here. I can buy allumettes (matchsticks) or lardons (just translates as bacon, but it’s in pieces slightly bigger than the matchsticks) either natural or smoked. All of these are fried and added to salads, quiches or other dishes … 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…