Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
I cut the chard back a few weeks ago. It was looking rather ragged after the summer heat. I think the hot weather makes it more bitter than usual so I hadn’t been picking any. It’s very happy with the cool weather now and is coming back nicely. It will grow all winter if I … Continue reading…
This is the last recipe from my French courgette (zucchini) collection. As with the others, it was incredibly simple, just using the best, fresh ingredients of summer. Of course, I modified it just a bit…. I left out the aubergine (eggplant) and added mozzarella. What can I say… we like cheese. Tian de Courgette Total … Continue reading…
I’m not sure what it was about these…. no unique ingredients, no complicated cooking techniques, but we both agreed it was one of the best zucchini / summer squash recipes of the summer. Maybe we were just really hungry. This is another from the French site that I got the idea for the Stuffed Zucchini … Continue reading…
My chard is going crazy, my tomatoes are ugly but prolific and my summer squashes are, well, behaving like summer squashes. Sometimes, I get tired / bored with stir-frying and grilling and whatever. Sometimes, there just doesn’t seem to be any choice but to toss it all together and see what happens. To make it … Continue reading…
Yes, we still have zucchini, although I made this with a yellow squash. Now that the evenings are cooler some of the cooking is moving back to the kitchen. I make timbales often, and with a lot of different vegetables. They make a lovely presentation for a first course and are simple to make. The sauce … Continue reading…
Having a vegetable garden is always interesting. In the winter I will buy a cauliflower and some carrots and a few sunchokes and we have our vegetables for the week. That will give us a reasonable serving for each dinner. In the summer it starts with a handful of green beans every other day, a … Continue reading…
It’s summer squash time. Whether you call them zucchini, courgette or yellow squash they’re all summer squash – and all the same in my opinion. I’ve seen lots of recipes and more than a few comments that more recipes are needed…. Not by the same people (I assume). I thought I would throw a few … Continue reading…