Or you could call it a Potato Zucchini Cake – but that could be confusing. (Cake?)
Or a Potato Zucchini Patty.
The name really isn’t important and the food world seems to use them all interchangeably.
Whatever you call it, it’s easy… A little prep work shredding the vegetables and you’re done.
For those of you who don’t like or … Continue reading.....
No one (that I know of) has said that a crumble has to be sweet. Well, maybe Google…..
The difference between a crumble and a crisp, according to Google, is that a crisp normally contains oats and a crumble doesn’t.
It also says that both are a fruit dessert but I dare to be different.
Why can’t they be a … Continue reading.....
The summer squashes are still going strong in the potager.
Actually, after going dormant during the heat wave I was ready to pull them out and add them to the compost.
They looked dead.
Then we got a day of rain…. Lots and lots of rain.
It was too muddy to work in the garden so all 4 plants got … Continue reading.....
Garrison Keillor, of public radio fame, once asked: “Why do the inhabitants of Lake Wobegon lock their cars in the month of August?
So their neighbors won’t leave bags of zucchini on the back seat.”
To be honest, I have never been cursed with excess zucchini or summer squash.
Yes, I have 4 plants of various colors, white, yellow, … Continue reading.....
I don’t feel much like cooking when the temperatures climb above 38C (100F).
Actually, I don’t feel much like eating, but one must carry on…..
With the meat and potatoes handled by mon mari, outside on the barbecue, I can usually manage to do a quick stir-fry of something from the garden.
And there is almost always summer squash … Continue reading.....
When we were in Marrakesh 3 years ago we took a cooking class.
The class was a lot of fun and it was fascinating to see the proper way to make the food I had been experimenting with at home,
Not only was the food delicious, the presentation was an art form.
I had one long, straight, light green summer … Continue reading.....
Two things combined last week to inspire this dish: it was very hot and I had a counter full of tomatoes.
I had to do something with all the tomatoes and I didn’t want to be cooking dinner in the heat.
So I did it all in the morning.
Most of the tomatoes got blanched, chopped, bagged and frozen.
And … Continue reading.....
Way back in the beginning of time I was a waitress.
We lived in a small town in Wisconsin that had a rather well-known restaurant. It was kind of a cross between a diner and a fine-dining restaurant…. Oddly typical of restaurants in the Midwest at the time.
Anyway…. standard first course was a Garden Salad, with a choice of … Continue reading.....
