Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
I love the names of traditional Italian dishes. I know, as a food blogger, I should have called this dish: Braised Veal Scallops with Mushrooms and Tomatoes. Drowned Veal just sounds so much more interesting, don’t you think? Drunken Pork is on the next page…. Both are from ‘Tuscany, The Beautiful, Cookbook’. This has … Continue reading…
I’ve been in a lazy cooking mood lately… I want quick, easy, warm and comforting. In my kitchen that means risotto. Risotto alla Osso Buco Total time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 2/3 cup Arborio rice (or other rice specifically for risotto – Carnaroli or Vialone Nano) 1/3 cup (3oz, 90ml) dry white wine 2 1/4 cups … Continue reading…
The annual birthday dinner! Sometimes we go out for dinner to celebrate our birthday, sometimes out to lunch, sometimes on a weekend getaway…. Sometimes we do none of the above. Regardless of that whole bit, we always have a ‘Birthday Dinner’ at home. Mon mari’s choice is almost always lamb chops, some sort of gratin … Continue reading…
Lots of serious grill aficianados think of steak, particularly, a big, thick T-Bone, as the ultimate summer dinner. Not here. When we first moved to France we just assumed that the preference was for thin steaks as we never saw one more than 1/2" thick… And most were thinner. Se we had a nice, thick … Continue reading…
Yes, I know I shouldn’t have, but I couldn’t resist that title. And it is true…. They’re not wearing anything and they are Blondes! Blondes being the local beef cattle…. and the sun was shining. In the Vendee the cattle were Charolais. The local farmer just let them out into this pasture, cows, newly-born calves … Continue reading…
While I take a break visiting family, step back with me in time to 3 years ago, when we were homeless, to the beginning of this project…. And all of our frustrations: I have concluded, in my vast and intensive study of my fellow humans, that everyone has a ‘thing’ which, totally out of proportion … Continue reading…
Yesterday was The Glorious Twelfth. I first heard people talking excitedly about The Glorious Twelfth shortly after we moved to Andorra. I was very touched, honored, slightly embarrassed…. but also a wee bit confused. It was wonderful to be so quickly embraced into a new group of friends but how did they know it was … Continue reading…