We knew that there was an element of danger involved in packing up our lives to spend a year in East Africa. We'd heard about the British ex-pat who got stabbed to death months before our arrival. She hadn't been doing anything remarkable - just sitting in her car with the windows open, when a man ... read more
Salade Niçoise
It's the small things in life, you know, that color our world. This morning as I was driving through the countryside to get to the supermarket, the fields were bathed in fog and the only thing that pierced the grey was the white Spring blossoms on the trees. I stumbled upon a sale of Magnolia ... read more
Pleasure and Pain
I have a love-hate relationship with my garden. On one hand I feel pressured by it because things have to be trimmed at just the right time, hoed and planted at just the right time, weeded and harvested at just the right time, preserved or used at just the right time. It's another burden of ... read more
Basic Necessities: Food
At six o'clock in the morning, Sir and I are sound asleep in our rough-hewn king-sized bed, completely covered by a canopy of mosquito netting. Cock-a-doodle-dooooooooooooooooo! What. Was. That?! Sir goes to investigate, and tied to the back of the kitchen door there is a wiry bird. He climbs ... read more
Endives in Béchamel
Well lookie here … another recipe fresh off the heels of the ratatouille. I should mention that I kind of have something in the works to split my blog into two parts so that those who are just interested in the recipes can follow one feed, and those who have no interest whatsoever can completely ... read more
Ratatouille Is Comfort Food
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 ... read more
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