Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Asparagus season is here. Once again, mon mari is roaming the markets in search of green asparagus. Now that I have my Instant Pot, and have figured out how to cook the fat white asparagus, he is happy with that – as a second choice. White asparagus is preferred in Europe so there is always … Continue reading…
I was sorting photos the other day and I saw one of my potager a year ago. It was lush, green and beautiful. This year it’s dead, dying, brown and barren. I don’t remember ever having the vegetables finish this early. Today I picked the last of the Delicata squash. Some aren’t ripe but the … Continue reading…
Last year we had so much lettuce I nearly filled our compost container to over-flowing. We ate it twice a day for weeks and it never looked like we picked any. I gave it to neighbors and friends by the sackful. This year, after stringing CD’s everywhere, we manged to have 4 main course dinner … Continue reading…
I can get a ‘3-pack’ of some vegetables. The cans are small, about 8oz (240gr) or 1 cup size. I usually buy red or white kidney beans in the small cans to have on hand to add to pasta or risotto. Last summer I bought corn. I thought it would be great to toss into … Continue reading…
I did say a few more winter squash recipes, right? I haven’t told mon mari yet but I still have one big blue pumpkin in the cave. I’m debating…. I can either make another big batch of soup for the freezer, which will have me eating soup for lunch until June (when the lettuce is … Continue reading…
Everything I make seems to be orange lately…. It’s either butternut squash, pumpkin, or a tomato sauce, which should be red, but then I add yogurt and paprika or, in this case, horseradish, and it turns orange. For the curious…. this is what it really looked like. There might have been an orange tomato in … Continue reading…
I can make meals that do not have winter squash in them. Sometimes I use carrots….. I always have carrots on hand, to add to soup or round out another vegetable side dish or just nibble on raw. Sometimes I forget about them and need to use them fast. Stir-fries are a great way to … Continue reading…