Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Delicata is our new favorite squash. Well, it’s our new favorite of the short-term squash. They only keep a few weeks, unlike the butternut, spaghetti and crown prince squashes…. or pumpkins. They storage time is more like an acorn squash, which used to be our favorite. The delicata cook more quickly and are very sweet … Continue reading…
Chili con Carne is a favorite dish among the British, both here and ‘back home’. I asked someone once why they always specified ‘with meat’ (con carne) and he told me that sometimes it’s just made with beans, so the ‘con carne’ lets the diners know that meat had been added. It always has beans. … Continue reading…
Making stuffed cabbage leaves with the common white cabbage I grew up with in the Midwest is a challenge. Most recipes say to boil the entire head of cabbage so that you can get the tight leaves apart without ripping them to shreds. I believe I did this once. Then we moved to this side … Continue reading…
This is the last of the acorn squash for the season. It was a sparse season, and the majority of the squashes were small – which makes them perfect for a first course (Looking on the bright side). I was walking through the fancy foods section and spotted some pecans. Yes, the fancy food section…. … Continue reading…
I didn’t grow any little pumpkins this year but I saw a few at the local market and couldn’t resist. I really do like the flavor. They are moister than an acorn squash and are really the perfect size for a first course. Plus they seem to produce more reliably than the Sweet Dumpling squash … Continue reading…
The dog days of summer are upon us – and so is the August edition of the Secret Recipe Club. I think that means our recipes should be lazy rather than ambitious… So we can spend long, warm evenings star-gazing, of course.. This month I was sent to Sid’s Sea Palm Cooking – an interesting blog I was … Continue reading…
Why is it that summer takes forever to arrive but is gone in a flash? Two weeks ago I was complaining about the heat…. Today we’re thinking about lighting a fire. (Just thinking about it at this point). The good news is the winter squash are ripening. Some of the early ones are already picked, … Continue reading…