Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
It’s Summer (almost)! Paul, over at Writing at the Kitchen Table is have a Big Burger Ballyhoo to celebrate the season. Wisconsin bar hamburgers! I remember them fondly! Well, actually, more than fondly. They were as close to perfect food as one could get. I’m talking about the small town beer bar with a griddle … Continue reading…
The usual U.S. signs of ‘no shirt, no shoes, no service’ have added disclaimers in Minnesota implying that people carrying concealed weapons, a.k.a. guns, (hard to carry a concealed crossbow) are not welcome in most places of business. I think that rather takes the fun out of it. One of former governor Jesse "the Bod" … Continue reading…
In most of the small towns (and the larger ones) near where I grew up fine-dining has kind of gone out of style. 30 years ago there were nice restaurants and supper clubs where one could get a shrimp cocktail, salad wedge of Iceberg lettuce with blue cheese dressing and a good steak, fish, or … Continue reading…
For years mon mari and I traveled together. Then we moved to Ireland/Andorra/France and it changed. For the first five years I was still working in the U.S. and flew back and forth 5 or 6 times a year, by myself. Mon mari would join me every two years or so. Since I quit working … Continue reading…
International travel has changed since we first ventured across the pond. It used to be a pleasure….well, if not a pleasure at least tolerable; an opportunity to catch up on the reading; relax without the phones ringing; a time to reflect and to plan the upcoming trip. Now, it’s just a challenge to be endured; … Continue reading…
No one does Christmas Markets like the Germans (except maybe the French)! They have the biggest (Dortmund); the most famous (Nurnemberg), most beautiful (Mannheim); most atmospheric (Wuerzburg); the oldest (Dresden); I could go on but you get the point. Last year we had a lovely holiday in and about Dresden, visiting the main city markets … Continue reading…
There are two things a visitor here from the Midwest notices right off: It's just like home, cornfields, wheat fields, pastures, apple orchards; oh wait, there's a field of sunflowers, must be France; and, although everyone speaks a foreign language (French) fluently, very few people in the heart of the French countryside speak English. For … Continue reading…