Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
A lot of my garden is not doing well this year…. but the summer squashes are prolific. I have 4 different types and, so far, I have been able to pick them small enough that they are not overwhelming. Of course I also have a lot in the freezer – both bags of shredded and … Continue reading…
Zucchini (Italian), summer squash (English), courgette (French)… what’s in a name. I have 4 plants: white, yellow, green stripe and round. I’ve been making soup for the freezer, shredding them for the freezer, making Lemon Bread, Chocolate Bread, Spice Bread, and eating them at least once for every meal. As much as I don’t like … Continue reading…
I don’t remember the reason and I don’t remember when, but somewhere along the line of my life I decided to stop using pizza sauce. Instead I use paper thin slices of fresh tomato. With a sharp, preferably serrated knife, I can get 8 – 10 slices from a medium – large tomato…. More from … Continue reading…
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 … Continue reading…
A mandolin is one of those kitchen tools that I don’t use often but is indespensible when I need it. It makes short work of potatoes for gratins, and zucchini for these rolls. Mine happens to be an expensive stainless steel mandolin that I bought from Williams Sonoma many years ago. Before that, though, I … 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. … 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 … Continue reading…