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Yes, I know that half the world is still enjoying summer - but it's the end of summer and soup is a wonderful way of preserving all those beautiful summer and fall vegetables. I also know that the other half of the world is still enjoying (?) winter (read full article)
Spain has long, hot summers. Spain also has lots of really cheap wine of all colors. I once had a Spanish friend explain to me that she refused to spend more than 1.50 euros (less than $2.00) on a bottle of red wine because her children (adult) were (read full article)
Herbs are, at least for me, a crucial component of summer's bounty. I start using fresh herbs as soon as the chives show signs of growth in the spring and don't stop until I've picked the last sage leaf before frost. In my herb garden I have parsley, (read full article)
I picked the first of my favorite summer vegetable yesterday. I'll admit that my favorite vegetable is usually the one on my plate.... But I have a particular fondness for fresh green beans. Like sweet corn, they are best picked, cooked and eaten wit (read full article)
To refrigerate or not to refrigerate; that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer.... Oops, wrong soliloquy. It's summertime and many a cooks' thoughts turn to salmonella. And most thoughts about salmonella center around eggs. I w (read full article)
Does anyone remember Lowry's Dill Dip or Beau Monde Dip? They were all the rage at one point - simple recipes: 1 cup of mayo, 1 cup of sour cream and 1 tbs of either of the 2 seasoned salts were the main ingredients.And the Food Police were attacking (read full article)
Have you noticed that most people don't consider the humble potato to be a vegetable? Have you noticed that most people don't consider the humble potato to be healthy? Have you noticed that most people are so very often wrong? Potatoes are loaded wit (read full article)
Significant progress was made this week without significant cursing. He was plumbing. He hates plumbing. Apparently he decided he only wanted to do things once this time.....Because it all worked the first time. With only 4 or 5 extra trips to the DI (read full article)
The Spanish way of dressing a salad is to drizzle a bit of oil and vinegar over the top of your own salad just before eating. The salads are brought to the table naked. The French way of dressing a salad is to put a dab of Dijon mustard in the bottom (read full article)
Saturday we took our trusty trailer and went to get the shopping..... It occurred to me, half way to Bordeaux, that the trusty trailer might not be big enough to handle the shopping..... Mon mari had no such doubts. Between the back of the car and th (read full article)
Summer cooking, men and barbecues. Somewhere, deep in the bowels of history, there must be a buried document that stipulates that women slave over the hot stove and all other areas of domesticity that take place back in the steamy kitchen. In order t (read full article)
Say No to fake food! Excuse me while I get up on my soap box...... This subject has been simmering in the recesses of my mind recently. I was looking through a popular cooking magazine and saw recipe after recipe calling for fat-free this or low-fat (read full article)
I don't often post recipes for fish, (Smoked Salmon doesn't count.) I have to struggle each week to cook fish. Not with myself; with mon mari. We have fish or seafood every Friday. No, not because of my German Catholic childhood.... Because I like fr (read full article)
Cooking for two can be a challenge. Much of what we buy comes pre-packaged, and the packages are big. And that's if you shop at normal stores.... If you shop at Costco the packages are huge. (I visited one, once.) Meat can be divided and frozen: a 32 (read full article)
Ail vert: green garlic.It's spring and that means it's green garlic season.It's fleeting, only about 4 weeks, so one must enjoy it while one can.I'm putting it into anything and everything.....Regular readers may have noticed.Fo (read full article)
Ail vert: green garlic. It's green garlic season.For those of you who are visiting this blog for the very first time.... I'm rather fond of green garlic.I've only known about it for the last few years.I was first introduced to it at a little re (read full article)
I've never seen a purple potato.Limes, along with pineapple, sweet potatoes, ginger and mangoes are in the 'exotic' section of my supermarket - if anywhere.I have searched in vain to find such outlandish items as frozen fruit - like berries, or, heav (read full article)
I've never seen a purple potato.Limes, along with pineapple, sweet potatoes, ginger and mangoes are in the 'exotic' section of my supermarket - if anywhere.I have searched in vain to find such outlandish items as frozen fruit - like be (read full article)
I was introduced to Rock Cornish Game Hens when I was at university.Being poor college students a friend and I arranged to clean house for two guys every Sunday in exchange for dinner and drinks. Naturally, we had to do the cooking.Neither of us (read full article)
Did I ever mention that I often cook with wine?Not cooking wine.... One should never, ever cook with a wine not fit to drink.One can get perfectly quaffable wines to use in cooking without uncorking the Grand Crus.Wine tenderizes the meat, adds flavo (read full article)
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