I have a recipe for you. Ratatouille is comfort food – did you know that? It’s a tomatoey-warm Mediterranean-healthy olive-oily comfort food. I learned to make it when I was an au pair for a posh family back in 1994. (I also lived with a posh family when I studied in Avignon in 1989. And Sir’s grandparents were also posh…. Read More
Archives for February 2012
Basic Necessities: Water
This is the first part of a mini series of blog posts on our time spent in Africa with a look at various aspects of the basic necessities. I had originally planned it as one post, but it turned out to be a lot longer than expected (and a lot easier to digest in smaller increments). You would expect Hargeisa,… Read More
Follow Me?
Please excuse me for the blatant self-promotion, but Google Friend Connect is going to disappear in a week or two. That’s that little box down there with 56 friendly faces declaring they love me enough to follow me. (Thank you. I love you too). The thing is, Blogger is jealous and they don’t want the WordPress folk who benefit from… Read More
Peanut Butter (Sugar-Free) Teff Cookies
I’ve had some teff flour lying around (who doesn’t?) so I looked online for some recipes that called for this rather exotic flour. I stumbled upon several peanut butter teff cookie recipes, and I thought – hey, it doesn’t get any better than that. I believe the recipes originate with Bob’s Red Mill website. Do you know anything about teff?… Read More
Oh Pooh!
So I was in the hospital all day yesterday for my D&C and it went well – they got everything out. We got there at 7am and I had to be à jeun (not have eaten or drunk anything since the night before) and pre-scrubbed with an antiseptic soap. The staff was nice and asked how anxious I was (to… Read More
Mum Rhymes With Glum
I wish you could have seen the Seine this morning but I didn’t have my bulky camera with me when I went walking. It looked just like this if you color it winter. It is so grey today, but that only accentuated the beauty of the river and the weeping willows lining the bank. The view to the right is… Read More