I think this might be the first time I wrote two food posts in a row, but I was just so inspired by the success of these galettes and … since they’re hot off the grill, I thought I’d share the recipe with you. What is a galette, you might ask? It is a crèpe from Bretagne (Brittany) that is… Read More
After receiving some encouraging requests for the pumpkin soup recipe (thank you for asking for one of my recipes!) I went out and bought some additional pumpkin since the other one from my neighbor’s garden had gone into a semi-failed soup and two pumpkin pies that were promptly gobbled up. I used this recipe as the base for my recipe,… Read More
The recipe I am sharing with you today is not the one I intended to share with you. My neighbor’s gave me a pumpkin from their garden and I intended to make a honey-mustard pumpkin soup with half and a pumpkin pie for my neighbors with the other half. That would give them a pleasant shock. The French don’t eat… Read More
I’ve been grieving lately because my friend Stacy died of cancer two weeks ago, leaving behind a husband and son the same age as Young Knight. My husband was their wedding photographer and her husband was our immigration lawyer. He left his law career to go into the military and they endured a year’s separation while he was overseas. Their… Read More
So guys, poser that I am, I tried to make the fondant patissier that most sane people buy in the store when they want to make patisserie. It’s the thing that makes the white glaze on top of the vanilla éclair, and you flavor it with coffee or chocolate for the other “parfums.” It all looked so easy here. Greased… Read More
Lasagna is easy to make – did you know that? It is! You can even mess up like I did (in this post) and it still looks, smells, tastes mahvelous! Fry up some onions (about one medium to large, although I used frozen pre-chopped here). Then stir fry some ground beef, about a half pound. Add a teaspoon of salt… Read More
