Before meeting my first French boyfriend in New York, the idea of having a salad as a main meal never even crossed my mind. I’ve since changed, of course, and even my children expect to be fed salad for dinner every once in awhile. And since it’s summer, what better time? There is this salad called “salade compagnarde” or “salade… Read More
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 trees. My husband loves Magnolia… Read More
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
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
Young Lady has been clamoring for zucchini soup. (I know right?). It’s too soon to get them from the garden … See that zucchini forming along with the flower at the end? Most of you didn’t read me back then, but I have a recipe for making zucchini flowers here. Anyway, zucchini’s are like rabbits and I’m sure this one… Read More
Soup is a very common meal in France. It can be served as an appetizer, but given that the French eat sparing dinners, it’s more likely to be the main course. The most common is a vegetable soup, called “purée.” You take some large leeks. Chop them into rounds and rinse them well to remove the sand. Of course you… Read More
