Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
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 … 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 … 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 … Continue reading…
One of my favorite things about fall is that it’s finally cool enough in the evenings to turn the oven on. I can make gratins…. and all sorts of other things that it’s too hot to do in the summer heat. Plus, as the garden season starts to taper off I am more willing to … 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, … Continue reading…
I actually looked up the difference between sauté and fry for this recipe. It’s such a complicated concept I decided I should at least be accurate in my terminology. Fry is small pieces of food cooked in oil in a skillet over relatively high heat. One should be able to flip the food about in … Continue reading…
Remember the old adage: If you can’t beat’ em, join’ em? I never really understood what that meant…. Although I’ve said it often enough If it was referring to physical violence – why would I want to do that? If it was referring to contests of some sort why would the winner want me to … Continue reading…