Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Everyone loves green salads (I think). Pasta salads are popular. Potato salads are usually relegated to a side dish at the family picnic. In my opinion, that is rather said. Potatoes make a great base for salads of all sorts. The poor potato is a much-maligned vegetable. The potato itself is a nutritional, healthy part … Continue reading…
My potager is giving us food. I pulled the shallots and some of the onions last week. The rest of the onions will come out in the next few days. We’ve been eating summer squash and I picked the first lot of green beans and a few tomatoes today. My Romaine has been excellent. We’ve … Continue reading…
We have 2 kinds of slugs here – that I know of. The brown slugs are big. They can be 5 or 6 inches long when stretched out. Luckily, for my potager, they are carnivorous. The gray slugs are tiny. Curled up they are hardly noticeable; stretched out they’re 1/4 – 1/2 inch long. They’re … Continue reading…
I love pasta. Mon mari loves rice. I’m trying to make more interesting things with rice. While the internet is stuffed full of pasta salads, there are far fewer rice salads…. And even fewer that interest me. I had frozen peas and a bunch of parsley…. a lemon that hadn’t been used. Voila! Click here … Continue reading…
The theme for Monday Posts in July is Salads. All types of salads – although there are only 4 Mondays I shall try for variety. Last month I did ‘side’ salads; this month they will be main course salads. We love main course salads and have them for dinner 3 or 4 times a week … Continue reading…
Our lettuce is finished. I always plant Romaine last as it’s slow to bolt and usually lasts us well into July. What I didn’t realize is that extreme heat causes it (and everything else in the potager) to stop. I did not Google this and have done no research, but my first hand experience is … Continue reading…
Are Taco Salads still popular in the U.S.? It’s been awhile since I’ve crossed the pond so I’m a bit out of touch with food trends. To be honest, although I liked the salads I never really liked the ‘taco bowl’. It was cute but wasteful, in my opinion. It wasn’t a wonderful taco (being … Continue reading…
